Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform
מלווין ראסל: אני אוהב להיות שוטר, אבל אנחנו צריכים רפורמה
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for a very, very long time.
because I'm also a black preacher.
ביד שלי מפני שאני גם מטיף שחור.
about black preachers,
going for another 20 minutes.
pushing this thing forward.
להמשיך לדחוף את זה קדימה.
for a very long time,
לפני שהטכנולוגיה הגיעה.
but I'm telling the truth.
I mean, War on Drugs.
אני מתכוון, המלחמה בסמים.
being a police officer.
because it's always been a calling for me
מפני שזו תמיד היתה קריאה בשבילי
law enforcement is in a crisis.
We can't arrest our way out of this."
לעצור את הדרך שלנו החוצה מזה."
that we have to adopt this thinking
שאנחנו צריכים לאמץ את החשיבה הזו
to community policing.
everything that we just admitted.
several years ago.
I was tired of discrimination,
and the schisms.
in the beloved agency
a date that we would retire.
go off into the sunset,
love my wife a long time.
אוהב את אשתי הרבה זמן.
that I was educated in --
back into the system.
18 months, 19 months,
some radical policing.
from being a drug sergeant --
as a district commander,
in Baltimore city.
and the tuberculosis [rating],
across the nation,
I didn't say city --
לא אמרתי מדינה, לא אמרתי עיר --
We gotta do something different.
אנחנו חייבים לעשות משהו שונה,
We gotta think radical.
אנחנו צריכים לחשוב רדיקלי.
that I desperately wanted
to that inner spirit.
to that man on the inside
that I had been trained to do.
to that inner spirit,
בגלל שהאזנו לרוח הפנימית,
authority over for public safety,
על בטיחות הציבור,
is we started to think holistically
and never should have been
ולעולם לא היה צריך להיות
to that intersection
all races, all creeds, all colors;
כל המינים, כל הפלגים, כל הצבעים;
and the faith-based,
that I had authority over.
things into the community
strategies and deployments,
to the community about them.
and say, "Take that."
"קחו את זה."
of that stinkin' thinkin',
We want to hear from you.
started to happen.
130 cops that were under my tutelage
130 שוטרים שהיו תחת פיקודי
into something incredible.
so much, so very much.
beautiful, 23-inch arm.
היפייפיה, בת 58 הסנטימטרים.
It just look good!
היא פשוט נראית טוב!
it so much sometimes
כל כך הרבה לפעמים
and dehumanized us.
ולהפוך אותנו ללא אנושיים.
and ... there it is.
in our protective arm.
our brothers and sisters,
האחים והאחיות שלנו,
in the mirror and see our mistakes.
ולראות את הטעויות שלנו.
and get through this,
makes up a community.
on law enforcement.
and the nerve to get upset
when we take action.
should be calling the police
should be calling the police
music is up too loud,
to my yard and did a number two;
ועשה מספר שתיים;
be calling the police.
so much of our responsibility.
coming up in Baltimore --
rough in the street --
come and break us up.
in the community.
it was that village mentality.
and "Do this." and "Stop that."
ו"תעשו את זה." ו"תפסיקו את זה."
all of the community.
that makes up a community, even --
I'm very hard on the churches,
אני מקשה מאוד על הכנסיות,
too often have become MIA,
נעלמות מהזירה יותר מדי פעמים,
over the last 10, 20 years
round the corner and you're in church.
הולכים מעבר לפינה ואתם בכנסיה.
commuter churches.
become disconnected by default
שהפכו למנותקות בבסיסן
where they're planted.
of that community.
but I really need to wrap this up.
אבל אני באמת צריך לסיים את זה.
and I call it relational equity.
ואני קורא לזה שוויון יחסי.
for all of us to build our cities
לבנות את הערים שלנו
commandship in that district,
in the car with my police
it's a little secret --
with a clergy.
looking to your right, talking about:
תביטו ימינה, תדברו על:
all day long -- you can't do it!
כל היום -- אתם לא יכולים לעשות את זה!
incredible initiatives,
and police to build that trust back.
לבנות את האמון חזרה.
are on the wrong side of the fence.
שנמצאים בצד הלא נכון של הגדר.
in our community
to proper medical care,
and partnered up
to partner with us
what we needed holistically,
of the needs of the people,
of a four-and-a-half-year stint,
מתוך כהונה של ארבע וחצי,
at a 40-year historical low:
down, back to the 1970s.
started keeping data since 1970.
רק התחלנו לשמור מידע מאז 1970.
I had other commanders call me,
היו מפקדים אחרים שהתקשרו אלי,
we fell, Baltimore city,
ירדנו, העיר בולטימור,
to become great servers,
these last few years,
בשנים האחרונות,
rather than reactive,
that it should've never happened.
שזה מעולם לא היה צריך לקרות.
along the vein that we were in,
treating them with respect,
to business as usual.
we have a police commissioner
יש לנו מפקח משטרה
about community policing,
I believe shall rise from the ashes.
אני מאמין שנעלה מהאפר.
and continue to say,
on the same path for the same goals,
לעלות על אותו מסלול לאותה מטרה,
we all want peace.
כולנו רוצים שלווה.
a few minutes of your time.
שנתתם לי כמה דקות מזמנכם.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Melvin Russell - Chief of the Community Partnership Division, Baltimore Police DepartmentMelvin Russell is bringing stakeholders together to work toward the common goal of peace and prosperity for Baltimore City.
Why you should listen
Lt. Colonel Melvin T. Russell is Chief of the Community Partnership Division, Baltimore Police Department. Russell joined The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) in 1979 as a police cadet and graduated from the BPD academy in 1981 as the first and only African American class valedictorian.
Russell worked both as a uniform patrol and then an undercover officer for 20 years before re-emerging as an Eastern District Lieutenant in 2007. In this position, Russell turned the worse midnight patrol shift in the city to the best in 3 months and was promoted to Major of the Eastern District 11 months later. It was during this time as Major that Russell created the non-profit “Transformation Team” (TTT), a grassroots organization of community shareholders that are committed to working together to make a better Baltimore.
In January 2013, Russell was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and created the Community Partnership Division.
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