Police Heed Black Clergy And Set Up Panel on Crime
By AL BAKER
Published: September 29, 2010
Prompted by the concerns of black clergy members in crime-plagued sections of central Brooklyn, the New York Police Department has set up a task force aimed at reducing violent crime there, particularly among black people.
The Brooklyn Clergy/N.Y.P.D Task Force was created after clergy members approached the department.
“We’re killing ourselves with black-on-black crime,” Bishop Gerald Seabrooks of the Rehoboth Cathedral said at a news conference on Wednesday with other clergy members and police officers at 1 Police Plaza. “We cannot blame it on the police or on any other groups.”
He said religious leaders wanted to send a message “that we want to stop homicide, violence and shootings of any kind of people, but especially we want to speak out on black-on-black shooting — hurting, harming or endangering one another.”
Black Clergy Ask Police to Help Cut Violent Crime - NYTimes.com.
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