Our class had the honor to hear a lecture by Clayton Board of Commission Jeff Turner and the future of community policing. Clayton County police has made its main goal to preserve their relationship with the citizens of Clayton. Turner explained that the reason why there is distrust in the community is due to the fact that the media has created this negative image of police officers. The media creates this negative stereotype that police officers and the community is at war with each other and there is a lot of civil unrest. This is simply untrue the community backs the officers in their community because they serve and protect us the people. Tuner stated that being an officer is a hard job especially if the community does not cooperate and
