Advocates unhappy with Chief Schmaderer's statement on PACE

The Police Athletics for Community Engagement program was started by Latino Police Officers and many of those men have run parts of the organization. Now some South Omaha community leaders and activists believe their community, and specifically PACE, is being unfairly targeted. Hours after the FBI searched homes of multiple men connected or directly tied to PACE, including two current Omaha Police Officers and City Councilmember Vinny Palermo, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer came out and said in a statement “I am concerned that PACE may have been used for criminal activity.”