City leaders in Elkhart are discussing ways to move forward in these times of unrest between many communities and police departments across the U.S.
Mayor Rod Roberson and Elkhart Police Chief Kris Seymore took part in a panel discussion with local faith leaders and community activists in an effort to work together to solve problems. They worked with community activist Curbiee Coleman, who organized protests against police brutality months ago after the death of George Floyd.
“If we don’t talk about the conversation then we can never understand what the community, what their issues are and we can never understand the issues that the police have,” she said. “These conversations are important to have, otherwise I don’t think we could come to an agreement or a solution.”
Roberson and Seymore discussed de-escalation training, excessive force reporting, and how to improve relations between the police and the city’s black community. Coleman praised their willingness to make it easier for the public to ask them questions and get meaningful answers to those questions.
Roberson and other city leaders did say they are not defunding the police department.
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No what they need is proper training. Some of the officers on the street do not possess basic investigative skills. With poor leadership, from years of promotion from within, without leadership to or mentoring to help them solve crimes.
That is why you are seeing crimes that have gone decades unsolved
Your wrong partner this is all about an arrest over weed and a cop just doing his job .Rod is a pos that does not support his officers. Maybe you should get your facts right before you run that big anti cop mouth of yours. In your effort to sound intelligent you look ignorant.
Is this the same Curbiee Coleman who supposedly works for the city HR department and decides who gets hired and who does not? Does she get to pick and choose the police applicants who get hired too? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?