Should The Baltimore Officers Been Charged?

While these officers innocent is played out in courts and in the public. The large questions maybe is, how did these officers get here and was there anything that could have been done to prevent this situation. Surprisingly the answers are yes. If police departments are proactive in adopting community engagement programs, police officers can learn the skills needed to effectively work with communities. I use the words "work with communities" to highlight that public cooperation is critical to good policing. Through effective community engagement training police officers can shed the "us against them mentality" and come to see the community as their most effect tool in policing and avoid situations like the one happening in Baltimore.