Hispanic Outreach Efforts: Newport News Police make strides in community
June 29, 2010 | Virginia News
Like many other populous cities around the country, the city of Newport News confronts a variety of law enforcement and public safety issues. Approximately a four-hour drive from the nation’s capitol, Newport News is a city that finds it is dealing with a substantial proportion of immigrants, largely Hispanic, who don’t speak English and who are at a disadvantage of being victimized.
Street officers in the three precincts of the Newport News Police Department discovered that reports were not being made in home invasion cases, in situations where Hispanic victims had been robbed on the way home from work, or in stances where they had not put money in the bank. "A significant portion of the Hispanic and Latino countries don’t view their police departments as a positive influence and often are in fear of them. Their financial institutions are not stable, which also does not instill confidence with the government," said Sgt. Xavier Falero of the Newport News Police Department.
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