Your background. Guest im an alumni of the Fbi Citizens Academy and part of a civilian office of Police Accountability in chicago. I have also done a couple town policeetings in chicago departments and had a privilege of speaking in virginia with seven Different Police departments, as well as harrisburg. Book,so the title of your because it deals with improving issues of police and Community Relations. How would you characterize those relations as they stand today . [laughter] guest if anyone has two eyes, two years and half a brain, they can see the relationship is very strange. Police and Community Relations are probably at an alltime low. It will require solutions. Host would you say the status or the range of relationship has always been the same for many years and is only different this year because of recent events . What has changed over time . Guest the reality is, if you understand history, history believes the black Community Relations were always trained militia goese or out
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Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 as i described in my testimony, we know that Nursing Homes with a higher proportion of black and latin residents have higher death rates, however theres not universal reporting of the race and ethnicity of those individuals within Nursing Homes who have been affected by covid. That presents for us a significant challenge when it comes to targeting resources in order to prevent the transmission of covid. Because, you know, when covid19 enters a nursing home its because someone has brought it in and what its telling us that if those Nursing Homes are following the same safety procedures of restricts visitors, ensuge that providers have clean ppe every time theyre coming in, then we shouldnt see these disparities. However we do. And the likelihood these disparities in rates of covid infections within Nursing Homes are going to occur are going to be even higher in communities with a higher burden of covid19. And so what were
The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
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