In the mountain pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and if you are a member of Law Enforcement and want to give your perspective, you can cause at 202 7488002. You can post on twitter at cspan wj. Or facebook. Com cspan. Monmouth university released a recent poll taking a look at relations between police and minority communities. Here are some of the findings from that pole. It showed 87 of those polled felt that individuals of their race are more likely than whites to experience Excessive Force. 49 of white americans say police are more likely to use Excessive Force against a black culprit, and 39 of whites say police are just as likely to use Excessive Force regardless of race. That was done by monmouth university. Atre is more to the poll their website. Several communities are reaching out to dialogue with members of minority communities on the topic of policing. I will show you a couple. This from kansas city, kansas. Saying the mayor once members of the community to share their experience and establish ongoing dialogue between the africanamerican and hispanic communities and Law Enforcement. The task force theyre putting together will tackle difficult issues, including defining Excessive Force, identifying bias, and eliminating unequal treatment by Law Enforcement. That is kansas city. The fremont news messenger reports efforts going on on the same front in ohio with the ther being asked what community could do to begin healing within that community. He said the city made a lot of changes in terms of trying to improve dialogue between the police and residents, working with Community Relations, and the commission there, and understanding the need for more minority representation. Everyoneding, saying on the call realizes we need to do more. Even in your read, pennsylvania pennsylvania,e, saying we are committed to illuminating racial disparity. We are getting good ideas from a lot of different people on how quickly. Ick up more that is the mayor of erie. There was a march where he and the bishop participated. The bishop said we will have tangible steps we can take in erie, pennsylvania to make it the all american city. That is some of the things going on across communities when it comes to dialogue between the police and minority communities. You can share your experiences. Three lines you can call. Eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. Mountain pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and if youre a member of Law Enforcement, call us at 202 7488002. You can post on your twitter and facebook pages. If you want to text just, you can do so at 202 7488003. Nevada. Art this off in how would you characterize that relationship . Caller thank you for taking my call. Thereed to say i was 1971, 1972. Ive been on the wrong end of a police baton a couple of times when we were at peace marches. Copsre peaceful and the came to cause trouble. This is nothing new. It is the same tactics going on. We do need change. How would you describe the situation there in nevada . We have about 80 virus cases. We are only a count of 13,000. We have had a couple of deaths. Everybody is socially distancing pretty well. Host when it comes to police and minority relationships in your town, how would you describe that . Caller this has changed quite a bit. It is a lot better and has been for about two to three years. Policexperience, the have been accommodating and helpful. We have had a little of trouble is nond there, but there systemic racism here, i do not think. , but it iserywhere not over, does not like what happened in minnesota. In nevada. Is les from missouri, nathan, your next. Caller i wanted to comment on police and minority communities, especially the black community. Missouri, we in are right next door to st. Louis. It is basically st. Louis. The situation is that when you do not have enough black force,s or the police they cannot relate to the black community. When you do not have black officers, you have white officers. They cannot relate to the black community. They cannot relate to black culture. Right now, there is a protest going on because a cop, a white male. R, ran over a black he was a suspect. Allegedly, there was something that happened, but the young male was suspect. He put his hands up and said ok, he is surrendering, and the white cop hit him with the car. They are protesting right now. Situations like that, you can see that predominantly there is not enough black officers. The same thing that happened in ferguson. Ferguson, missouri is right next door. When you do not have enough black officers on the police force, there is a big cultural dialogue,you cannot you cannot communicate with the community well. Host that is nathan in missouri. He brings up the number of black officers on police forces. There was something called the 2018 American Community survey done as part of the u. S. Census, and here are some of the findings they found when it comes to share of Law Enforcement by race and ethnicity. When it comes to white officers share,ce forces, that 62 compared to 61 percent of whites in the total population. Lacks, 15 point 5 of officers are africanamerican. 15. 5 . Of africanamericans in the total population. When it comes to hispanic and , 14. 5 of those making up members of Law Enforcement compared to 18. 3 of the total population. There is more to this. You can find the website at axios. Ahead. York, barbara, go talking about relations between communities. Caller i think if we got the Police Department to join in with the community and educate the Police Officers. As a rule, black Police Officers will not kill you. Very seldom they will pull the trigger. I know because i have three family members were Police Officers. Especially if they see someone child,some politicians he said we know better, we will not pull that trigger. Very seldom will we pull the trickle. We do, but we do not do it as much as the whites. White officers are angry and he said we do not know why. They are angry with us, according to my nephew. He said sometimes they make racist remarks and you just have to swallow it. The when it comes to education part, what type of education is needed . Caller what i would do is have every Police Officer who joined the police force or those already in the police force, let them see videotapes of all the blacks or hispanics or whatever race that was mistreated, killed, whatever they have done to hurt a family or hurt a human being. You have to let them see these videotapes and discuss it later why we should not do things like this. I am a registered nurse. We have to go through an Educational Program when we sign up at our hospital. We have to see videotapes of certain diseases and certain policy and procedures. And got they did that the Community Involved with the Police Officer, maybe things could be better because i must say, i think we should work with them. Do not destroy them. Host lets go to minneapolis, minnesota. We will hear jonathans perspective. Caller good morning, everyone. Thank you for your conversation and having a smart conversation about race relations. Being from the epicenter of minneapolis where this started, didrtunately george floyd not need to die because of one human being i am using that term loosely decided to put his knee on somebody. Inis a hit or miss minneapolis, depending on the area in which you live. Listening andtart seeing people and Start Talking to each other. It has been heartbreaking what has been happening to my city and by mayor. Thoughts. Ven have at the same time, i think they need to Start Talking to each other and hearing what each other has to say. Host you agree with the City Councils decision on the police force . Caller i believe they need to have the police and they need to reeducate and educate people on how people live their lives. We need some sort of policing, obviously. Please keep my city safe. Social distancing and allow people to live their lives. We have to come together as a country. We have to start hearing each other. We have to Start Talking to one another. Maybe it is in my neck of the woods. At the same time, it is like watching a movie that will not end and im just exhausted good host that is jonathan in minneapolis. We will hear from larry in stone mountain, georgia. Caller good morning. I wanted to make a comment. I am 79 years old. I served in the army. I have a son in the navy now. I have a son that served in the marines. Also my uncle was a marine. Boy, we doa little not have black police. White police used to common our community. Created a thing called blackjack just to beat up on black men. Monday morning, all of the black man had a table where they had been hit with these blackjacks. When the Police Officers did start hiring blacks, it was the 1940s, and the white Police Officers do not want them. They had topoint put the black police and the ymca. How would you describe what is going on today in stone mountain, georgia . Caller it is not as bad as in atlanta. It is not as bad. In atlanta, we always had racial problems. Now since atlanta is more black than it is white, that is why we are having a lot of problems. Host diane in mapleton, oregon. Go ahead. Caller hello. This is my opinion of what i feel is happening right now. It is not just racial relations problems. Races. Problem of all we are all hurting. Our young people can no longer afford to buy a home in this day and age. Their jobs do not pay them on, and everybody is frustrated. On top of it, a lot of them have lost their livelihoods right now because of the covid19 crisis and the closing of the Small Business communities. Host since we are trying to get a stress a sense of place relations where people live, how would you describe the situation there . Police minority relations are basically zero because we do not have a police force. Saying that everything is ok because you do not have a police force is wrong. , children feel like they have to carry knives to protect themselves from other children. Host when you say you do not have a police force, do you mean that literally . Who handles Public Safety . Caller i mean it literally. I was assaulted in my house. Host who handles issue of Public Safety . Caller they do not. Unless it is something they feel they can prosecute successfully. If they cannot prosecuted successfully, they will not try to do anything. It depends on what your name is and how much money you make. It does not matter what color you are. It is up to how much money you make and what your name is. In this entire community. Host we will hear from gary. Atlanta, georgia. Thanks for calling. Go ahead. Caller Police Officers are Community Minded and more brotherly. Cops are just ignorant. That is the bottom line. That is all i have to say. Host harold is in the bronx, new york. Hello. Caller hello. I am a retired corrections officer. I also worked 9. 5 years in the Rockefeller Program as a narcotic collections officer and i was also a warrant officer picking up of squanders from the program. Did it for 11 months without a gun. Had to end up shooting a guy does go weeks after i receive a revolver because he hit me in my head with a 12 inch water pipe. Oo i spent the next 15 years in state corrections. I work some of the worst prisons. For the criminally insane. I worked as a corrections capacity ofhe workrelease. My mind has carried me to places where i worked by faith and not by sight. Host for all of your experience, how would you characterize the relationship between police and minority communities . Caller one of the main experiences i live on 169th street in the bronx. They have a patrol outside of our community. I wanted to know from one of the therepolice, do you know are two cultures living in this community. There are those who are street people, selling drugs, pimping, raping, robbing, and then theres the other side, who may live in the same building, the same community, may be relatives , who are decent people striving to be decent citizens, who are expecting their civil rights and equal rights. Yet there is no differential or the the treatment knowledge of the police and the community. I talked with the white police and i told him did he realize there were two cultures in this the ones who are not focusing on are the ones who need to be focused on. You know what he told me . The end result is i am going home at night. Host that is harold giving his perspective in the bronx. We divided the lines. If you live in the eastern and central time zones for the mountain pacific time zones. If youre a member of Law Enforcement, you can call us or post on social media. In washington, d. C. Yesterday members of the House Democratic party taking a kneeling stance for eight minutes and 45 seconds , memorializing george floyd before they held a press conference in which they talked about legislation they aimed to pass, taking a look at Law Enforcement, making changes to Law Enforcement practices, that took place after the ceremony, and nancy pelosi highlighted what they intend to do with this package. We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change, which is why act willce in policing remove barriers prosecuting Police Misconduct by addressing the quality immunity doctrine. It will demilitarize the police by limiting the transfer of military weaponry to state and local Police Departments. It will combat Police Brutality by requiring body and dashboard cameras, banning chokehold, no warrants in drug casing and erasing racial profiling. We will finally make lynching a federal hate crime. As support our two distinguished senators and others for their work in helping to pass hr 35 this year. Police brutality is heartbreaking reflection of an entrenched system of Racial Injustice in america. True justice can only be achieved with full, comprehensive action. That is what we are doing today. This is a first step. Come. Is more to in the coming weeks the house will hold hearings, markup the bill. It, leaderuse passes mcconnell must swiftly take it up. The president must not stand in the way of justice. The congress and the country will not relent until this legislation is made into law. Host in the write up of the legislative package, New York Times highlights that the legislation were not defined calling on many protesters and progressive democrats have taken up, arguing Police Departments can be taken apart and revamped. To get a sense of police minority relations, we are asking you to call some talk. Jacksonville, North Carolina. We hear from chris. Go ahead. Caller my name is chris. The police are not the problem in the United States. The American People of all parties are responsible. You give people responsibility and authority. We do not respect our responsibility. We give the Police Responsibility for crime. We have to give them authority to do it. We give them too much authority. This is what happens when you do that. Absolute authority corrupts everybody. Host how do you change that . You change that by crating a Public Safety agency with no extra responsibilities and no excessive authority. Them if you do not give excessive authority, who oversees them . Caller the people overseas them joint you do not give them responsibility for everything in certain, you give them responsibilities. Police officers react to what we tell them to do as society. We marginalize people of all kinds. Please treat them different kinds of ways. We stigmatize the black communities to being high crime areas or impoverished people. You cannot do that. You cannot associate the does go associate you cannot the two together and police them when you have this attitude. We cannot have Police Fighting fires. We cannot have police doing all kinds of things. They get frustrated. Host we will go to james in bridgeport, west virginia. Your next up. Caller my name is james. I was calling about the police minority relationships in the communities. I have a very basic balance of Public Safety. From what we have learned in the longer, ieeks and believe committees should have some kind of Outreach Program with their local communities, whether that be having block parties every once in a while and taking Community Members into the police and showing them around. As far as im aware from data , someatistics we do have Police Departments and officers do not have the critical training to respond to some situations, which leads to mismanagement and possibly debts. And possibly deaths. That and the hardship Police Officers face in this country, i think the is the community as well as the Police Department. Community oversight would be nice so you can hold the Police Officers that are abusing their powers or have not handled the situation correctly, have some kind of oversight on them.