And neither will black Americans. That is no way to live life.”Only 30 percent of black Americans have confidence in police, according to a Gallup poll from June. A Pew poll in 2017 found that while 60 percent of Americans said that the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement represented broader problems between police and black citizens, 31 percent of police officers say the same. There is little optimism among many black Americans that the increased training will lead to institutional changes in policing, especially since the topic now seems to have fallen behind other political priorities. That's bad.

Source: Washington Post March 27, 2018 20:03 UTC