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Mattie Parker: “If a community is telling you they don't trust police, then…”

Featuring: Mattie Parker, Republican | Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas

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Mattie Parker talks with CBS 11 Political Reporter Jack Fink

Published | Video Starts at 14:17

He's already doing, and actually under Ed Krause as well, they've created programs that are working, that are quietly changing the rhetoric, changing the way we work with community members. If a community is telling you they don't trust police, then you have to believe them. And it's important that you listen to them because you can't fight crime in a neighborhood where folks may not call police. So our police department right now are working very hard. (14:17–14:23)

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Asserts the importance of believing communities when they express distrust in police.

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