Professor Avon Burns spent a career training people to become cops, lawyers and probation officers. She worked to bridge the gap between the community and the police. In the age of outrage about police misconduct she has suggestions for communities like Flint. Michigan. Her vantage point in Flint, a city that has consistently ranked at or near the top in violence of large and mid-sized cities in the nation helped her become a respected leader in criminal justice education.