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At a time when police departments are in need of more diversity, a historically Black college is stepping up to funnel more Black people into the pool of candidates.West Baltimore-native Tyrese Davis, 22, is part of the inaugural class of the new Lincoln University of Missouri s Law Enforcement Training Academy. He said he wants to be a police officer who brings change. I just want to help people, Davis said.Davis said he wants to change the way people see police. I know a lot of people in America, a lot of young Black males think that if they get pulled over, they re automatically going to get locked up, or are automatically going to get a ticket, or automatically going to die. That s how America sees policing right now, Davis said.Gary Hill is the chief of police at Lincoln University of Missouri in Jefferson City, Missouri, and is the director of the Lincoln Academy, which he started. The program is the first of its kind at a one of the nation s historically Black colleges
(CBS Newspath) A new police academy in Missouri is making history. It s the first ever on the campus of a historically Black college.
Lincoln University police Chief Gary Hill is busy preparing to open the police academy on campus in January.
âIt puts an academy right where we have a large amount of minorities living, so it gives them easy access to it,â he says.
The Jefferson City, Missouri campus is just two hours away from Ferguson where the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown led to protests and demands for change around the country.
Hill says Lincolnâs academy will focus on both recruiting and training.