Voices

Deeply held racial biases demand police reform

BRATTLEBORO — This accelerating season of racial violence has not triggered, so much as revealed, the deeply held racial biases that can kill innocents on both sides of the blue line when they are not explicitly examined.

I believe no one in the United States comes to adulthood without some problems and biases around race. Active engagement with what are often unconsidered prejudices, along with purposefully stressing that the police are servants of the people, not the other way around, is absolutely required.

I'm with Curtiss Reed Jr. The sooner, the better.

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