The Summerville Dignity Project is requesting input from the community about recent Summerville police incidents. Community members may offer their feedback through an email to DignityInput@CoastalCrisisChaplain.org, and submissions may remain anonymous if indicated in the email.
Dignity Project members will gather to organize the input into topics discussed from multiple, diverse community and police perspectives. The members will also listen for understanding by participating in a series of perspective swaps, where they are tasked with understanding the input topics through perspectives that are not their own. For example, community members will try to understand and offer feedback from a police perspective, and police will try to understand and offer feedback from a community perspective.
The project, which includes community members and Summerville police officers, will seek mutually respectful, honest conversations, followed by positive collaborations for shared progress that offers dignity to all involved. The Dignity Project will host future community forums to update the community about the collaborative progress.
