A partnership between police and the community is proving effective in San Jose. Their work spread on Thursday night, as police chiefs from across Santa Clara County joined the conversation on police reform.
“It is this dialogue that gives us our framework for our policy work we’ll do in the coming weeks and months that follow,” said Yeme Girma, People Acting in Community Together volunteer.
The group, PACT, has been working with the San Jose Police Department on procedural justice and implicit bias training.
“It is deeply personal for me to incorporate these changes and to have positive dialogue and a safe community for all our families,” said Girma. She has two teenage boys and she wants their experience with police and the community to be positive.
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