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Aaliyah Guillory-Nickens highlights trust issues between police and communities
3:18:28
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Aaliyah Guillory-Nickens, a campaign organizer for Youth Represent, emphasizes the broken trust between police and communities as a fundamental issue preventing effective policing and community engagement.
- Guillory-Nickens argues that the lack of trust makes it difficult to discuss alternatives
- She stresses the need to address police accountability and community treatment
- The organizer suggests that restoring trust is crucial for community members to feel comfortable discussing alternatives
Aaliyah Guillory-Nickens
3:18:28
it's hard for us to talk about alternatives because the trust is broken and there's a huge gap in between police and communities and police can't police right because of the fact that the trust is broken.
3:18:40
So, we can't really get to the alternatives in terms of how are police supposed to figure out who's on the gang or how are police supposed to figure out how to address the issue of gun violence because they can't do their jobs because there's no trust because they're not doing their jobs right.
3:18:55
So, I believe if we I guess get to that root of the issue first and restore that relationship and that trust and hold them accountable to the point where community see that they're being held accountable and they're not just being targeted all the time and beat and brutalized and terrorized, then maybe we can get somewhere where we figure out what each specific community needs and they'll be more open to talking because right now they're not gonna feel comfortable talking because all they do is get disrespected and they get treated like nothing in their communities, so it's not gonna be easy for them to wanna come and sit at the table and speak about what the alternatives are if they don't feel like there's any trust and if they don't feel like it's gonna work.