Recording of the Community - Police Forum for the Coatesville Area June 18, 2015

On Thursday June 18, 2015 we had the 1st Community - Police Forum for the Coatesville Area at the New Life in Fellowship Church in Coatesville, PA. 

I don't know of a meeting quite like this one in Chester County or anywhere. If anyone does put it in the comments below. 

THE PANEL MEMBERS WERE:

Chief John Laufer  -  Coatesville 

Chief Joseph Elias -  Caln Township 

Chief Lew Wilson -    South Coatesville 

Chief Joseph Friel -  Valley Township

The Community Manifesto was read by Rev. and former Coatesville Magistrate Judge Robert Davis. 

State Senator Andrew Dinniman was in attendance 

The questions for the police chiefs were written by community members on 3 x 5 cards and read to the chiefs by Coatesville Magistrate Judge Gregory Hines.

I think what makes this Community - Police Forum unique is that there was no specific event that called for the meeting. And that people who had questions for the police chiefs could remain anonymous. 

The meeting was calm. Some of the questions were contentious. I don’t believe that those questions could have been delivered to the chiefs without some cover of anonymity. 

If anyone wanted to speak to the any of the chiefs one to one they were available for a time after the meeting. 

A recording of the full meeting is below. It was recorded in the church sanctuary. I removed as much reverberation as I was able to: