Black Police Officers
Do these black lives matter.
Black police officers. About 15 percent of the police officers on my force are black in a city that is about 43 percent black. While one data set in which the race is known seemed to show black police officers are more likely to kill black people across the board the study s authors noted a number of factors could skew. Two officers eventually chased and grabbed the man and the clip shows what appears to be a black male officer on top of the white suspect at the base of an escalator while a black female officer.
Being a person of character a christian man doing my job and doing it effectively. Who i am and who i ve been for almost 26 years is the same person. By molotov cocktails nearly 300 police officers have been killed or injured in the last week.
The national black police association nbpa is a national organization comprised of sub regional african american police associations whom are dedicated to promoting justice fairness and effectiveness in law enforcement. This imbalance is reflective of most police departments in america. African american police officers are finding themselves navigating two worlds that are often at odds and sometimes even at war with each other.
About 11 5 of full time police officers in local departments in the united states are black according to the latest data from the bureau of justice statistics. Including the 50 secret service officers injured in d c. The nbpa has several chartered organizations throughout the united states and has associate members abroad in canada.
In one black portland police officer s frontline experience the black lives matter protests in his city are not about helping black people attain better lives. On being a black police officer in america.