Do other cities not recruit from their communities? Because that's where Baltimore gets its police officers from. There's a lot of talk about what the police are doing wrong. Ok. There's a lot that they could be doing differently, doing better. But the rioters aren't burning the police stations down. It's pharmacies and convenience stores. It's a nursing home. It's, well, it's their community. In this case it's my community as well. And, for whatever is worth, any guesses as to skin colors of the pieces of the businesses and other property being destroyed?
The answer isn't as simple as the police need to stop being racist. That's so simplistic as to be wrong. Want to see for real concrete change for the better? Get the police and communities working together.
I'd like to go on a little bit more here, but my kids have been seeing this happening in their home town since Saturday and are worried. They're not seeing the police burn buildings. It's scaring my small children and right now they want Daddy to make everything alright.
As of right this second as I'm typing this there is a group of people walking up the road towards my house with baseball bats. They're about 1.5 miles away heading this direction. Right now we aren't worried about toxic police departments. But please, go back to the discussion about how is the police I should be worried about.