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Being Black and Blue: “When did it become acceptable to have 6-10 shootings per day?”

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Sergeant Clyde Boatwright

BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) — Sergeant Clyde Boatwright, President of the Maryland State Fraternal Order of Police joins Dr. Kaye to share his perspective on policing in America. 

“We are not tone-death to what we see on camera and what we see locally here… where our police officers have dishonored the badge and violated members of our community…"

 

Boatwright also says police have made the profession "so unattractive" that agencies are having trouble keeping and hiring law enforcement officers.

 

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Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis; a featured Public Commentator for WYPR and Op-Ed columnist for the Baltimore Sun; a K-12 master teacher in African American History; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher; and, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.