by Sylvia Bennett-Stone
Trust continues to spiral downward between some of America’s most vulnerable communities — the ones most in need of good police protection — and the officers serving them.
Last month in Springfield, Ill., Sonya Massey called 911 to get help. Instead, she was shot to death in her kitchen by a responding deputy. These sorts of shootings often result in riots at worst or sharp upticks in mistrust or dislike of police, at best.
But we cannot and must not let tragic outlier events determine our community’s relationship with the police force tasked with keeping us safe.