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...didn't want to believe it. My father is an ex-Marine captain. At home I learned the Marine Corps Hymn before "Jingle Bells." In particular, I remembered the lyrics: "First to fight for right and freedom, And to keep our honor clean." In Afghanistan, I went out on patrol in the desert hills looking for Taliban with Marines; they were a solid bunch of guys, as steely, brave and as irreverently funny as my dad had led me to believe...
...share that concern because Hashim and his men know that Grim's platoon is ready for any situation. "It goes back to trusting your fellow American soldier to watch your back and keep you out of trouble," says Grim. "If the police did turn on us during a patrol, it would be the last thing they ever had the misfortune of doing." In today's Iraq, that may be as close as U.S. and Iraqi troops come to a mutual understanding...
...National Targeting Center, a multi-agency center that crunches the data against criminal databases and watch lists. If your data raises too many concerns, or some questions can't be answered, you'll receive a "red flag" and be pulled aside for questioning by a Customs and Border Patrol agent...
Then the chapter lays out concrete steps that citizens and elected officials can take to decrease tensions between the police and the communities they serve. For example, it recommends that individuals get to know the officers who patrol their neighborhoods and that police forces “adequately train all officers in cultural sensitivity, racial profiling, and excessive force policies.” “The Covenant” is so valuable because it is filled with these kinds of practical strategies...
...police are struggling to answer 911 calls, they have even less time to patrol neighborhoods, so they can't build the trust essential to preventing crime. Tensions between the city's African-American community and police are particularly high--40% of the population is black and 47% is white, but there are three times as many white cops on the force. As Alderman Ashanti Hamilton explains, "If the only time people in black neighborhoods see a police officer there it is to arrest somebody, then, of course, they're going to be nervous." Chief Hegerty says repairing this relationship...