Choir Practice - Reverend Hutchins and Police - Community Engagement

MovementForward, Inc. is a modern, inclusive social change organization working to protect, promote, and advance the civil and human rights of all people, and in this episode we speak with the founder and CEO, Reverend Markel Hutchins.
While many agencies participate in community outreach programming such as National Faith & Blue Weekend, Police Athletic Leagues, Coffee with a Cop, National Night Out, Shop with a Cop, and citizen police academies, to name a few, there currently is no comprehensive law enforcement recruit or in-service training available for public safety professionals tasked with community engagement and outreach.
This stands apart from how law enforcement professionals assigned to forensics, narcotics, school safety, fleet maintenance, investigations, hostage negotiation, public information, and other specialized functions all have targeted, unique training and networking opportunities through which they have access to best practices, peer support, industry expertise, and current research.
Based upon tenants of Intergroup Contact Theory, the 2024 PLECET Conference will begin to “professionalize” the critical and highly specialized community engagement sector of the law enforcement profession. Designed for law enforcement personnel assigned to community engagement functions, the conference attendees will also include agency heads, researchers, municipal staff and officials, nonprofit representatives, communications professionals, and technologists.
Learn more about Movement Forward, Inc at www.movementforward.org
Learn more about the PLECET Conference at www.plecetconference2024.org
Follow Reverend Markel on all social media platforms at @revmarkel

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Mike, you, the Reverend, and most all of LEO's are good people making rational decisions when doing police work. However, as RUclips is amplifying there are some in the profession that are either on-duty when in a bad emotional state or just normally have a bad emotional state.
This problem is only going to get worse as better LEO's (like yourself) leave the profession - unless the actual LEO community (beat LEO's) figure out how to fix this among yourselfs. Not some "internal affairs" department and certainly not a "civilian oversight board". The days of sweeping things under the rug are gone, and when bad actions are exposed this tarnishes and removes respect from the general public.
You only need to look at the Indiana 18yro non-brat girl yanked from the car - and the council member initially saying it was OK - to see that things need fixing - and it MUST COME from within the profession.