First Listening Session: Residents Want Next Police Chief Involved in the Community
By Casey Nelson
Jul 1, 2021 | 7:47 PM
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The first listening session to get the community’s input on Green Bay’s next police chief saw a few attendees at Divine Temple Church – and heard a lot of different ideas.
While talk about diversity and ways policing should be handled was present, one theme stood out among the rest. The next chief has to have his finger on the pulse of the Green Bay community.
“I would just like to see the new chief continue what Chief Smith has already started,” said Sharon Harper, the director of resources at Divine Temple Church. “My main thing is, just stay in the community. Let people get to know you, get to know all the people in the community…If you work with the community then people will get to know you and they won’t it won’t be so intimidated they have to come and tell you things going on in the community…The police can’t do it by themselves. It takes a village, it’s the community that helps to keep everybody safe.”