What is the relationship between the police department and today’s youth?
What’s your attitude toward law enforcement?
Have you ever been stopped and frisked, or even arrested?
If so, why? If not, how might it feel to be questioned by police for no apparent reason?
Why do you think the police stop and question innocent people going about their business?
What do you think the police could do to win back trust that has been eroded by these practices?
These are the questions that were posed in The Learning Network of The New York Times for readers to express their views.
Get together with your conversation group and talk about your experiences with the police and how the relations between police and society could be improved.
In preparation for the topic, you can also read Erica Goode's article in The New York Times Many in U.S. Are Arrested by Age 23, Study Finds.
