Samuel Battle, a son of enslaved people, joined the NYPD in 1911 and patrolled mostly in Harlem. He worked through taunts from fellow officers — and tourists who traveled uptown to gawk at the city’s lone Black cop — to get promoted to lieutenant.
Keith Taylor, who is Black, joined the NYPD in 1991 and said for a community whose lives in the U.S. are rooted in slavery, majority white police forces patrolling majority Black neighborhoods could be reminiscent of slave patrols and occupying forces. Battle had to contend with a threatening note left on his bed at the station house, he later said, and dealing with tourists who traveled uptown to gawk at the city’s lone Black police officer.
And a more diverse police force isn’t a cure all when it comes to protecting communities of color from police abuse and brutality, said Fritz Umbach, a historical criminologist who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Umbach pointed to the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, and the five Black officers indicted for his death, which lays bare the nuances of how diversity does not necessarily improve policing.
Still, according to Taylor, who retired from the NYPD several years ago, Black officers do provide a level of cultural competence that can help to avoid negative interactions with the public. And that all goes back to Battle.
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