10 Ways to Reduce Our Reliance on Policing and Make Our Communities Safer for Everyone [theappeal.org]
By Alex S. Vitale, The Appeal, July 20, 2020 Policing in America has gone too far. It has now become the one-stop response to our communities’ public health and public aid problems. Police officers must enforce traffic laws and respond to domestic disputes. They must manage mental health crises and drug overdoses. They must deal with homelessness and school discipline. Police officers, of course, are neither trained nor equipped to be part of our social support systems, and so it’s...