A group of seven students from Ed White High School and four officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office met in a classroom this morning for what was, for some of them, their first time ever speaking one-on-one with either police or young men in the community.
Putting cops and the community in the same room is part of the mission for Operation Save Our Sons, a Jacksonville nonprofit started 13 years ago by Bishop John Guns.
“JSO cannot be our enemy. They’re our partners,” Guns said, “I think when you put law enforcement and men in the same room, what you discover is they have a lot more in common than they have different.”…