Failure Of Healthcare & Social Safety Nets Are Contributing Factors Affecting Police Role
Ethan Murray was shot five times by a sheriff's deputy on May 4, 2019.
BAFMnotes: Deinstitutionalizing of mental healthcare in 1970's without alternative safety nets, cutbacks in social programs in order to balance budget that contained giveaways for the wealthy, plus the militarization of local police forces have contributed to lawlessness on both sides of the thin blue line.
"Policing in many ways adopted a veneer of this community engagement, community policing, but still maintained a crime-fighting orientation," Stoughton told The Post. "And as the name suggests, crime-fighting is inherently adversarial. My observation is not that crime-fighting is bad - of course it's not - but that the adversarial orientation in policing affects the way that officers make decisions about how to act when they interact with community members."
