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Youth interns present recommendations to San Francisco Police Commission on recruitment and community engagement
Summary
Student cohorts from the Community Safety Initiative presented projects recommending recruitment pathways, recurring community events and a voluntary anonymous-tip app to improve relations between neighborhoods and law enforcement; the Commission and chief pledged follow-up and possible ambassador roles.
Students and staff from the Community Safety Initiative told the San Francisco Police Commission on Aug. 5 that peer-led summer cohorts produced concrete recommendations to rebuild trust between police and the neighborhoods they serve.
"We did some surveys of these young people— at the beginning they said we had about 66 of them say absolutely not [to policing]... now we have 20% of them saying absolutely not," Cheryl Davis, a program lead, told the commission, citing pre- and post-program survey results that program organizers said showed a measurable shift in attitudes. Davis also said "100% of them say that they now see law enforcement differently than when they first started the…
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