David Hoffman: “I remember 1969 when I first saw this recording of a live television discussion/debate between inner-city police leaders and inner-city community leaders presented on PBS. 1969 was a very tense time in the United States with 50% of the country supporting the war in Vietnam and 50% of the country opposed. In addition, the black community was protesting economic and other inequalities and protesting treatment by city police forces who were in those days, 99% white and male. I find this bit of history now so old surprisingly contemporary in some ways and in others, clearly, things have changed and the powers that be have supported diversity in their numbers.”