I was a newly minted cadet in the neighborhood I called home; the black kid in a white force and a cop in a neighborhood distrusting of the police. Stuck between two worlds, I could have given up, but I heard my grandmother’s words. “Know your history son, people of color paved the way for us.” And with this, I could do the same for others. So I put on the blue and headed out into my black neighborhood, uncornered.
