City Council Decisions On Durham Police Department

This radio interview originally aired on WUNC’s The State of Things on September 2, 2014

City Council Decisions On Durham Police Department

 

 
The Durham City Council meets about the city’s police department tonight and the alleged racial discrimination by law enforcement.
City of Durham
Credit City of Durham

 

The Durham City Council is expected to take up policy recommendations about the city’s police department tonight. The meeting comes after months of consideration of recommendations from community organizations who allege racial discrimination by law enforcement.The department says such allegations are unfounded.
Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC reporter Jorge Valencia; Durham city council member Steve Schewel; Durham mayor pro tem Cora Cole-McFadden;  Southern Coalition for Social Justice attorney Daryl Atkinson; and Reverend Mark-Anthony Middleton of the Abundant Hope Christian Church, a congregation of the Durham CAN organization.