Killed by a white officer. If you put on that uniform and youre scared of the black man, then you shouldnt put on that uniform Anthony White says those cases highlight the disconnect he feels and sees between police and the black community. All they do is ride in their car and they dont know the community. And they sort of snobbish to the young folks, well the young folks get snobbish back police chief dan trelka says part of the problem is department. With only two black officers, and one hispanic, the majority of Waterloo Police officers are white there are times where are newer officers will roll up on two seventeen year old black men standing on the corner of the street. And they will have a preconceived notion that they are gang members. They are not. And the message i just articulated to you. I need to articulate to my officers if you come from a Little Country town and was probably raised never to have to do, well you dont know how to do it. The solution, trelka believes, is get
Some organizations helping the community are being given the chance to get some help themselves themselvesthousands of federal dollars are going towards housing and Community Development projects in iowa city. City. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore was at a meeting where people learned how to be part of it. Two annual programs called the Community Development block partnership will benefit organizations like habitat for humanity. Humanity. Weve been successful the majority of years, the last 10, 15 years. Now iowa city is accepting fiscal year 2017 applications. Patton wants to try again. Again. We apply for the housing portion of it to try to subsidize the cost of the housing that we build. Habitat will apply for the home funding, which can be used for things like building affordable housing, which patton says is a need in the greater iowa city area. Area. Because of the university and the High Percentage of student renters that we have, its great for our economy, obviously, but hav
The DeWolf Family Innovation Center in Marion, with 23,000 square feet attached to a 237-residence senior living community, hopes to change the approach to aging and dementia care.
This specific group was initially set to meet for four separate sessions. Since these meetings proved to be so beneficial, they were able to extend it to eight sessions.
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