RAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A series of listening sessions in Grand Rapids proved there’s work to do in generating trust between the community and the Grand Rapids Police Department — and one local urban leader says the way to do that is to keep up the discussion.
“Engagement is ongoing,” Lakiya Jenkins, the operations director for urban outreach nonprofit LINC UP, told 24 Hour News 8 on Tuesday. “It doesn’t stop. It’s not like we meet, shake hands. It’s getting to know each other, it’s continuously having conversation.
“I think that the city has made a commitment and I think that residents are engaged and they have been showing up,” she continued.
Transparency, more dialogue, accountability for implicit bias and racial profiling, and effective training for officers were some of the community’s key concerns that the city summed up in a 52-page report detailing the five recent #GRTalksBack listening sessions.
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