International Association of Chiefs of Police president apologised for police’s role in historical mistreatment but ‘today’s officers are not to blame for the past’The head of the biggest group of police chiefs in the US apologised on Monday for the role law enforcement has played in the country’s historical persecution of African Americans and other minorities.
Terrence Cunningham,the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), said police needed to understand that deep and intergenerational distrust had been caused by officers being the “face of oppression” during a “unlit side” of American history.
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Source: theguardian.com