SEATTLE (The Seattle Times/TNS) – Starbucks says it will horde 100 “Coffee With a Cop” events within a year, deepening a joining to a events designed to encourage conversations between village members and police.
The Coffee With a Cop module was begun in 2011 by a military dialect in Hawthorne, Calif., with a goal of violation down a barriers between military officers and a people they serve.
So far, Coffee With a Cop events have taken place during several coffee shops (not only Starbucks) in all 50 states, as good as in Canada, Europe, Australia and Africa, according to a program’s website.
Seattle-based Starbucks has hosted some of a events. And dual years ago, Starbucks’ Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz participated in one with Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole.
On Friday, during a conference in Seattle hosted by a National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, also called NOBLE, Schultz spoke with O’Toole on a significance of improving trust between a military and communities, according to Starbucks. He also announced that a association will boost a joining to a module by hosting 100 events in a U.S. stores, starting subsequent month and using until National Coffee With a Cop Day on Oct 7.
Starbucks will partner with NOBLE, a International Association of Chiefs of Police and Major Cities Chiefs Association in a effort, with a initial 5 events to be hold in Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, and Norfolk, Va.