Why Police Should Embrace Communities—Not Shut Them Out
A former police chief on why the job should be more than “runnin’ and gunnin’.”
On Aug. 21, 2018, beginning at 5:29 p.m., Tamar Manasseh streamed live smartphone video to Facebook from the corner of 75th and Stewart in her Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. She narrates 20 minutes of a “police chase on the block,” saying, a police officer has “his gun out, and he’s chasing somebody. … Here come some more. They got guns out, and they’re chasing somebody. … If you’re chasing somebody with a gun, what happens when you catch him?”
Nobody answers her question, so she answers it herself: “Oh, they shoot themselves in the back of the head. I forgot.”
A crowd gathers and grows, watching, as the police
