My first recognizable reflection on policing came after moving into a changing neighborhood in Philadelphia as a young adult in the 1970s. Our largely white community was open-hearted but nervous, living in the midst of more trauma than most of us had grown up with. One person offered a striking perspective on the police and ambulance sirens that we heard so often in our neighborhood: Don’t think of it as something terrible that has happened; think of it as help on the way.
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