This preliminary report is aimed to outline the most pressing issues with community policing in Savannah, GA, and to provide some discursive insights into how the functioning of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department can be made de facto consistent with the slogan to serve and protect. The most challenging obstacle on the way of reaching this objective has to do with the fact that, even though 55% of Savannahs residents are African-Americans, the Departments operative principles continue to remain methodologically Eurocentric and therefore innately racist. The most recent illustrative proof that this is indeed being the case can serve the incident of police officers having used stun guns on Patrick Mumford (a 24-year-old African-American resident of Savannah), simply because he happened to look similar to the person that they were looking to arrest. Even though this incident (as well as many similar ones) removes any reasonable doubt as to the fa
ct that the practice of racial profiling continues to define the Departments functioning, as a whole, its spokesmen keep referring to such a suggestion (voiced by the representatives Savannahs Black community) in terms of an urban myth. For example, while addressing the ensued public outcry about this incident, Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin stated, We must consider all the facts and not rush to unfair judgments& intended to mislead and inflame the public against the officers involved (Ray, 2016, para. 10). At the same time, however, it became a commonplace practice in Georgia to fire police officers on account of some of them having used n-word while socializing with others through social media, such as Facebook (Suarez, 2016). Apparently, tasing an innocent Black youth almost to death without any warning is not racism. Racism is mentioning n-word (which most African-Americans have long ago ceased to regard offensive) in ones drunken reply to a post on Facebook.