In a conference room in Newark, police officers and community members sat in a semicircle, discussing systemic racism, implicit bias, intergenerational trauma, and mass incarceration. They talked about decades of distrust, and they talked about moving on.
Newark community members Dreana Walker, left, and Fahkeria Bradley, right, listen as Newark Police Officer Okai Sackey speaks.Newark community members Dreana Walker, left, and Fahkeria Bradley, right, listen as Newark Police Officer Okai Sackey speaks.In a conference room in Newark, police officers and community members sat in a semicircle talking about their trauma, personal and collective. They talked about decades of distrust, and they talked about moving on.
“I don’t like cops,” said Fakheria Bradley, who spent years in New Jersey’s notorious women’s prison, Edna Mahan, where 15 officers and staff werewith assaulting prisoners. “I don’t like them in my face because of the trauma that I experienced in prison, the trauma I experienced walking the streets of Newark."
Bradley’s admission came at the start of the two-day-long Trauma To Trust, a program run by a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, Equal Justice USA. It brings together Newark community members — activists from anti-violence groups, youth volunteers, social workers — with city police officers. The discussions are entirely centered on how trauma affects their everyday interactions.
In Newark, the relationship between police and community members is deeply damaged. Since 2016, Newark Police have beenafter an investigation found police officers used excessive force, stole property, and disproportionately stopped and arrested Black people. Trauma To Trust training isn’t mandated by the federal monitor, but the city wants all officers to go through it.
The program seeks to help officers and those they police communicate about the various forms of violence they’ve both experienced. In an era of viral videos of police killings and political discord over “defund the police” chants, cities across the country are experimenting with such
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