SAN ANTONIO – The first meeting of the Mayor’s Council on Police-Community Relations takes place Wednesday in the Career & Technical Education building at Sam Houston High School.
The meeting is the first of several planned to occur.
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The CPCR is tasked with recommending specific actions in five areas: how the police collaborate with the community; communication within and among City departments and the community about policing and public safety; police recruitment targets and processes; both initial and ongoing training for officers; and for a timeline for change and adopting processes that are transparent and encourages accountability.
“As a mom, I was paralyzed when my own 12 year old showed me footage of the incident in Baton Rouge on the computer and cried as she said ‘Mommy, why do they keep doing this to us?’ While police accountability and transparency has sparked national debate and is a public policy issue, it’s also deeply personal for so many people,” Mayor Ivy R. Taylor said.
Mayor Ivy R. Taylor created the CPCR to help address the need and the outcry in San Antonio.
Members who have accepted the invitation to sit on the council are:
- Tommy Adkisson, Former Bexar County Commissioner
- Denise Barkhurst, Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Rev. Eli Bonilla, Abundant Life Church
- Darrell Boyce, San Antonio Fighting Back
- C LeRoy Cavazos, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Cliff Burns, SAPOA
- Rev. Jerry Dailey, Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
- Johnathan Delmer, Oak Park – Northwood Neighborhood Association
- Brian Dillard, Dignowity Hill Neighborhood Assoc.
- Natalie Garza, District Director for State Representative Ina Minjarez
- Dean Fisher, SAPOA
- Dr. Michael Gilbert, UTSA, Dept. of Criminal Justice
- Analco Gonzalez, OCI Group
- Sean Green, My Brother’s Keeper San Antonio
- Barbara Hawkins, Geroge Gervin Youth Center
- Martin Henderson, Fatherhood Matters, Inc.
- Oliver Hill, NAACP
- Michael Hu, Community Leader
- Rev. Pat Jones, Greater Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
- Johnathan David Jones, SATX4
- Waheeda Kara, Ismaili Jamatkhana
- Dr. Carey Latimore of Trinity University
- Cassandra Littlejohn, Community Leader
- Mike Lowe, SATX4
- Taj Matthews, Claude and Zernona Black Leadership Foundation
- Willie Ng, Office of District Attorney Nico LaHood
- Nehemiah O’Neal, Community Leader
- Walter Perry, Community Leader
- Troy Ragland, SAPOA
- Robert Ratcliffe, National Pan Hellenic
- Robert Salcido, Pride Center
- Munirah Small, Mothers of Black Boys
- Rev. Paul Stevens, Baptist Ministers Union
- Ramon Juan Vasquez, American Indians in TX
- Beverly Watts-Davis, Community Leader