'And so where we've come to as a nation is we're using police as a substitute for properly funding the social service network that we need,' Rahr said.
Sue began her career as a police officer, eventually becoming King County Sheriff and finally the head of the State Criminal Justice Training Commission before she retired in 2021.And now that she’s retired, she is free to speak her mind on the reason we keep seeing abuses like the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. It’s rooted in an American culture that is fed up with crime but refuses to fix the underlying problem.
The way I look at it, in America, when you fall off the trapeze, there is no guarantee the safety net will catch you. Our conservative aversion to a nanny state has pushed us toward creating a police force that is focused not on empowering people to succeed but on controlling them when they fail. And it’s not surprising that sometimes that control will go too far.
“But the real drivers of violent crime are communities that are in disarray. For a myriad of political and social reasons, we grossly underfund most of the social services that are necessary to keep the community healthy,” Rahr continued.
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