Elect Rita Church

evening family and friends just what does defunding the police department mean to the citizens of Baltimore.

Citizens of Baltimore must have a police department that will change the culture from brutality to community engagement and community policing ,the citizens of Baltimore recognize that the police unions play a role in the culture of police.

elected officials who is backed by the police union should be complicit in supporting police brutality because they have been endorse by the police unions.

we have to be mindful first and foremost of the institution of political racism that has been effective in the policy cultures of police who have been able to participate in bad behavior throughout the country.

believe it was president Hoover who appointed the Commission in 1929 to examine a rise in crime while also investigating organize crime.

mistake came when police departments structural isolation of politician began which allowed police department to go unchecked because they had built there own organizational culture.

the 1950s O.W.Wilson set the standards moving police to a more centralized professionals. Known as the police administration.

In1993 there where emphasis on military style police units which we know can lead to different gun task force. (Ie )Baltimore

central theme for police where to centralized tacted which brought about tensions between the police and the communities they served.

the police administration institutions grew police brutality became the norm, because department's continues on as bureaucratic entities resistanting outside influences and reform.

Communication must also be a part of the Federal consent decree and the police unions.

people aren't really talking about is the fact that the police unions choose their candidates and put their money behind the candidate that's going to be complicit in brutality. I Am hopeful for real policy and culture change.