My opinion is a big NO! The damage is quite extensive there. A teenage shoplifter supposed to start college Monday, walks right into a cop, something happened, hands raised, phone cameras rolling everywhere and all this rampage. That militarized response was way too much and the Chief over there couldn't even SNITCH his own officer's name in a week?
FERGUSON, Mo. -- The head of the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services is planning to return to St. Louis in the next few weeks with the goal of helping to ease the tensions between police and black residents in the greater St. Louis area.
COPS Director Ronald Davis said in an interview with The Huffington Post this week that his office will offer training not only to police in the small town of Ferguson, where unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a white officer earlier this month, but also to various other law enforcement agencies in the region.
“The community voice has been loud and clear, and I heard the same thing on the ground as far as the community having little to no trust in the police in general in that area. And in talking to the police leaders, I think there was an acknowledgement that that is the feeling of a section of the community,” Davis said. He explained that his office's assistance would be "more long-term" and that it would address the "strained relationship between law enforcement and the community."
