A series of public meetings with Little Rock's new police chief will be held across the city, beginning next week.
The public meetings with Chief Kenton Buckner will be held over a three-week period in each of the city's seven wards.
The purpose is to give the public a chance to hear about the new chief's focus on "deterrence and preventive intervention" as an approach to crime control, City Manager Bruce Moore said in a news release Tuesday.
The meeting schedule is:
• Monday: Ward 2, Willie L. Hinton Neighborhood Resource Center, 3805 West 12th St.
• Aug. 7: Ward 4, McDermott Elementary School, 1200 Reservoir Road
• Aug. 8: Ward 1, Dunbar Community Center, 1001 W. 16th St.
• Aug. 11: Ward 6, Centre at University Park, 6401 W. 12th St.
• Aug. 13: Ward 7, David O. Dodd Elementary School, 6423 Stagecoach Road.
• Aug. 18: Ward 3, Westover Hills Presbyterian Church, 6400 Richard B. Hardie Drive.
• Aug. 21: Ward 5, Roosevelt Thompson Library, 38 Rahling Circle.
Each meeting will begin at 6 p.m.
Buckner, 45, became chief on June 30. He came to Little Rock from Louisville, Ky., where he was an assistant chief at that city's Metropolitan Police Department for the past three years.
Metro on 07/30/2014