Now that former NYPD Officer Peter Liang has avoided prison for fatally shooting Akai Gurley, questions
turn to the broken elevator, broken lights and police practice in a Brooklyn
public housing project that made the deadly episode possible.
This climate, in
turn, was a major factor in the high level of relational trust found in this most unexpected place — a 100 percent low - income, African American population in a school serving a
public housing project, with a white, male principal.