Police-community unity is critical to maintaining law, order, and civility in American society.
As detailed in my May 1, 2015 Epoch Times article, “Principles of American Policing,” the heart of policing is police-community cohesiveness.
The article serves as a clarion call to build bridges of trust that cultivate police-community collaboration.
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Police patrol a park in a neighborhood with a high rate of poverty and illegal drug use in New York City on Oct. 14, 2016. Staten Island, a New York City borough, is in the grip of a heroin crisis which has claimed hundreds of lives and turned some neighborhoods into drug markets. Spencer Platt/Getty Images