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Does Albany Community Police Training Include Racist Rhetoric?
A lieutenant with the Albany Police Department is accused of making racist statements during a recent Community Police Academy training class.
According to Albany Proper, Nairobi Vives, the chairperson of the Albany Community Police Review Board, is making allegations that racist rhetoric was used during recent Albany Community Police Academy training sessions.
Ms. Vives wrote a letter to the Community Council last week alleging that Lieutenant Howard Schecter made racist and disparaging comments during recent training sessions.
The Community Police Academy allows citizens to attend weekly classes to learn how policing works, to dispel misconceptions between police officers and citizens and it also gives citizens opportunities to make officers aware of their concerns.
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Concerns over racist myths being perpetuated by an Albany Police detective have prompted the Chair of the Community Police Review Board to ask the Common Council to intervene.
Nairobi Vives says she couldn t believe her eyes and ears over disheartening images of people of color accompanied by racist remarks she says she and others were subjected to during a training session intended to share the principles of policing with interested local residents led by Lt. Howard Schecter. I was really moved to write a letter about what is happening in this class, at least from this one presenter, Lieutenant Detective Schecter. Using this platform in this position of power to spread lies and, you know, racist myths about the Black community. And the bigger piece that really hit me was that, like I said, in the letter, you know, when I reported my experience back to the rest of the board, I was, you know, told that this same person, we later figured out that it was the same presenter, h