What the hood needs? Building relationships with the police.

I was scrolling FB when I saw a post about what they can do to help the black community. By their post,  I can tell they were confusing the Black community with the Hood , whom they were referring to.

One of the most important things we need is to build a relationship between the police and the hood.  The police have started to reach out to the Community we need to meet them half way.

The rift started because of police brutality before the Wars started. Now things have changed and the police have started to change and we have to meet them half way.

I think the change began in the police for two reasons the community stopped talking to them and crimes went unsolved,  it's real hard to see people as inferior to you when you are holding a grieving mother and father in your arms after their child was murdered. The police have to see the devastation personally daily. Yes, terrorism started the no snitching custom but police brutality also was affected it as well.
We still believe in holding the police accountable, but painting all cops as racist or brutal is just as wrong and destructive as painting all blacks as criminals.

When a cop or cops see a group of kids playing basketball and the cops join in, this is Community relations because now these kids see Cops as Human beings.  Rap battles or dance battles joined by cops also are community relations. We need to set up games where the police do not have their uniforms or guns (kinda dangerous to play basketball with a gun and it's hot as is running around the bases playing soft ball with a hot uniform on)on in a relaxing atmosphere is a good thing. Seeing the Community on the field also let's the police see us as not different from them at all.

It's time for the killings to stop and the first thing that got to go is the No Snitching rule and start reporting what we see because in the end it's the entire community that needs justice. The police are doing their part it's time we do ours.