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Community Policing Amping Up In Normal

Ryan Johnson

The Mayor of Normal says the police department in his town has reinvigorated community policing efforts in the last year. Speaking on GLT's Sound Ideas, Chris Koos says the effort can result in better understanding of law enforcement by the general population. "Ideally in the next generation we are going to have more people looking at police as a career," Koos said.

Koos says the extra attention on the issue came from a conversation with the NAACP following the Ferguson, Missouri police shooting. He says that discussion showed certain segments of the population do not trust officers, even in Normal.
 

WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.