Independent voices from the TWT Communities
In the wake of a shootout Sunday inside a Detroit police station that left four cops wounded and the gunman dead, some big-city police departments and police unions around the country are taking another look at their security measures and grappling with how to serve the public while also protecting officers' lives.
Maki Haberfeld, chairwoman of John Jay College's Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration in New York, said the violence against police represents "an epidemic of a lack of respect" for law enforcement.
She said episodes such as the Detroit shootout underscore the limits of community policing.
