Can Congress mend the rift dividing police and black neighborhoods? [McClatchyDC.com]

It would seem that Representative Reichert can recognize an Epidemic, too! In 2000, an Epidemiologist presenting at [then Dartmouth, now] Geisel Medical School "Grand Rounds" continuing medical education noted: "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the [then] DSM-IV criteria for PTSD". I've recently seen similar numbers for Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta.

If people are Fearful of Police using excessive force, rather than utilizing a "Risking Connection" model, might community members be less than empathetic toward police who also experience "toxic stress" in their work roles ? ? ?

Can we take the positive examples of "trauma-informed communities", and the positive results from trauma-informed/"Risking Connection" Intentional [Police] Peer Support as demonstrated in Boston, Cambridge, and Massachusetts North Shore Police Departments, and "trauma-informed Policing" from Manchester, N.H., and help restore our humanity to all persons? (Or at least start assembling an Evidence-Base of successful programs, such as the EENet [Evidence Exchange Network of Ontario, Canada] has assembled?)

I recall a CBN item about five different Nova Scotia RCMP officers ("Mounties") on disability with PTSD incurred from duty-related incidents. When the cost of insuring municipal police departments for officers misconduct rose 400% in one year, according to an article I read in the Wall Street Journal, and the criteria used to assess police officers at that time was a psychological test to ascertain if an officer had "a propensity toward violence", I had reservations about the scope of the test instrument[s].