Community policing is front and center in the news.

In recent weeks , Take Two has covered the death of Sandra Bland, an African-American woman who died in custody after being arrested on the roadside in Texas.

August 8 marked the first anniversary of the death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, which sparked months of protests across the country.

Closer to home, on August 11, 2014, Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old black man, was shot by LAPD officers and died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. 

This news has many questioning -- has policing in black communities really changed?

As part of Take Two's live broadcast from Watts, host A Martinez sat down with the LAPD's Senior Lead Officer for Watts Robert Yanez, and Priscilla Ocen, professor of law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.