also in pinellas law enforcement officers from across the county met with area leaders for an important discussion how they're going to deal with the community and how the response that they're getting in return and many places across the nation relationship between residents and officers is strained bay news 9 Josh Rojas was at tonight's forum in st. Petersburg where they work to make things better good Pinellas annexed Ferguson or Baltimore that's one of the questions a panel of community and law enforcement leaders answer tonight at st. Petersburg College Sheriff Bob Gualtieri says Pinellas is not one incident away from a riot I can tell you is that's not gonna happen here as long as I'm sitting here it's not going to happen were prepared we're ready a pastor espenilla state attorney Bernie McCabe about the perception police and young black men have of each other they have been 25 unarmed african-american men have been killed this year by law enforcement agencies I'm talking about perception and nothing had been done I think the perception that you describe is why we're having this conversation tonight st. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway says he put a policy in place that insurers officers cannot pull someone over for no good reason so they'll say copy a traffic stop and reason why I'm stopping that person for you they're moving or non-moving violation now they can't make it up after walking to the car Sheriff while terry says his department does not tolerate deputies who lie or other misconduct and for years I've terminated 24 people because I'm not putting up with it and I'm not going to tolerate it the first year I think i terminated 12 people because we needed to change bay news 9 anchor al rochelle moderated the panel and asked nick cave about citizens recording police with cell phones its videos like that that sparked the outrage in many of the national cases McCabe says it's perfectly legal for citizens to record police officers well there's nothing that the officer can do to prevent the person from using the video on its phone mccabe says his office has seen a few cases where police reports do not match the cell phone video in st. Petersburg josh rojas bay news 9 the spc president william law and Reverend Clarence Williams from the Mount Zion Episcopal Church were also on the panel