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## Video: President Obama: America ‘Not Even Close’ to Resolving Police Issues

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_Published 2016-07-14. President Obama, concluding a more than three-hour meeting with community activists, politicians and law enforcement officials, said America is “not even close” to where it needs to be in terms of resolving issues between police and communities._


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## Transcript

We've seen real progress with respect to data gathering. We've seen real progress with respect to training. We've seen progress with respect to transparency and outreach to communities. The bad news is, as we saw so painfully this week That this is a really hard job, we're not there yet, we're not even close to being there yet, where we want to be. We're not at a point yet where, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] communities of color feel confident that their police departments are serving them With dignity and respect and equality. And we're not at the point yet where police departments feel adequately supported at [ INAUDIBLE ].

I didn't hear anybody around this table suggest that this problems are gonna be solved overnight. Because the roots of the problems we saw this week Date back not just decades. Date back centuries. There are cultural issues, and there are issues of race in this country. And poverty. And a whole range of problems. That will not be solved overnight. The one thing I think we all have to do though is not paper over those differences or paper over those problems, but we do have to try to constructively solve them. And not simply win Talking point arguments and not just give voice to what we're feeling at the moment.

We have to as a country sit down and just grind it out, solve these problems.

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