"POLICING IN BED-STUY: RACIAL INEQUITIES PERSIST,"
A neighborhood resident says current rime-fighting strategies that largely rely on police rookies inflame racial tensions.
By Coriel Gaffney - City Limits WEEKLY

I don’t know what New York Police Department officer training covers, but I know what it’s lacking. I know because I live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood plagued by the NYPD’s mistreatment of its residents. At its least harmful, this mistreatment could be called contempt. At its most harmful, police brutality. In my three years as a resident of Bed-Stuy, I have witnessed examples of both.