Turning pain into purpose and progress, not more of the same

On Monday night, Officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed during a traffic stop. Two days later, Win Rozario was shot and killed by officers responding to his own 911 call for help. In between, Jason Volz was killed when he was pushed onto the subway tracks. All of this comes barely a week after Samiya Spain was killed in a stabbing outside a Brooklyn deli.

Because this is not working. For anyone. Our systems that have been entrenched and accepted for decades are putting people in harm’s way unnecessarily, with tragic results. This isn’t public safety, for anyone. And that’s okay. It has to be. Anger is not only a reasonable response to these cycles of pain and to individual incidents, it’s expected. We have to then channel that anger, though, in the right direction – preventing future pain.

Before attacking or assigning blame to community leaders who take this apparently ‘too-progressive’ or nuanced view, many of whom represent the Black and Brown neighborhoods most impacted by violence, I ask people to think about the pain they feel, that they see in the families of the fallen. I can promise you – we have seen that pain as well, too many times, at too many funerals.

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