Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Police Organization Apologizes for Mistreatment of Minorities

One of the world's leading police organizations issued a formal apology Monday for its historic mistreatment of minority communities.

Terrence Cunningham, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), apologized on behalf of police officers for their role in eroding the sense of trust between police and minority communities at the organization's annual conference Monday in San Diego.

Cunningham, the police chief in Wellesley, Mass., said today is a "challenging time" for police officers, alluding to violent anti-police protests across the country in response to officers' killings of minority men. Cunningham said those shootings, coupled with historical police enforcement of legalized segregation, has created "a multi-generational, almost inherited" sense of mistrust. 

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