“We’re here to enlighten them and teach them the right way to move in New York City.'
the City Council that an officer at a Brooklyn subway station was so accusatory after she asked for help with her broken Metrocard that she feared for her life.
“In these minority communities, the police are one of the biggest concerns for young people — even young people not involved in any criminal activity, just regular African American, Hispanic males and females, and their parents,” Titus said. “There are officers that do not know how to take a step back and just calm down a situation,” he said. “They don’t use the de-escalation training that they are given. And instead they either add fuel to the fire or just don’t handle it correctly.”
Titus actually runs his own workshops through his consulting firm on how to have positive interactions with police. He said he tries to impart the perspectives of police officers, who often have their own fears when dealing with the public: “When an officer is walking up to a dark-tinted vehicle, and it’s night, and he can’t see who’s in the backseat, and your music is blasting, maybe there’s smoke ...This officer is now thinking, ‘OK, this might be my last hurrah right here.
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