KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A local public relations firm has created a website where residents can post their stories about good interactions with officers with Kalamazoo Public Safety.
“The Good Cop” is Rhino Media’s answer to the negative media police get for rare and random incidents of police violence. The idea started during a random lunch between a Rhino staff member and Capt. Jim Mallery.
“Through those conversations, we learned a lot from each other,” Mallery said.
He says those conversations developed into the website.
“What was being lost was, every day, the good, honest, hard work the overwhelming majority of police officers were doing at a national level, and (the work) the men and women here at Kalamazoo Public Safety (were doing).”
It also includes a short film showing several officers discussing some of the experiences they’ve had and what they go through on a daily basis to provide a service that, they say, not everyone appreciates and doesn’t pay all that well.
– John McNeill
