What we REALLY need is both non-police specialists, who can interact with folks who have a natural fear of the police. Medical/Counselor/social type folk … and police who are well trained in NOT going in with guns blazing… and who have actual face to face knowledge of the folks where they’re policing. This goes completely against the grain of how they’ve been trained in the last 20 or 30 years, so it won’t happen by itself.
What we REALLY need is both non-police specialists, who can interact with folks who have a natural fear of the police. Medical/Counselor/social type folk … and police who are well trained in NOT going in with guns blazing… and who have actual face to face knowledge of the folks where they’re policing. This goes completely against the grain of how they’ve been trained in the last 20 or 30 years, so it won’t happen by itself.