Friday, June 04, 1999
Results no surprise locally
BY ERIN GIBSON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Although the Justice Department report did not include Cincinnati in its survey, local African-American leaders are not surprised by the results from elsewhere.
“In most major cities, African-Americans feel that they are overpoliced in comparison with white communities,” said Cecil Thomas, president of the Sentinel Police Association, which represents about 250 black officers.
In Cincinnati, relations between police and the black communities they patrol have been strained by several incidents in the past five or six years, he said.
The Rev. Damon Lynch Jr., pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Carthage, agreed that more blacks are dissatisfied with police than are whites.
Possible reasons, he said, include that police officers living outside the communities they patrol are thus disconnected and disrespectful.
“The bad cops make it bad for the good cops, so the bad cops need to be weeded out,” the Rev. Mr. Lynch said.
“It's getting better, but it could be much better.”
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