Dr. Cedric L. Alexander

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Community Policing as a Counter to Bias in Policing: A Personal Perspective

Some forty years ago, I was a very young black man living in the Florida panhandle. My dream was to get into law enforcement, but I first needed to get into the state academy, which required the endorsement of a Florida police executive. The chief of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Police Department—a black chief in an historically black...