The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

With the idea of small government, there was a lot of defunding of domestic spending, especially in areas like suicide prevention, homelessness, substance abuse, mental health, etc…  The net result was often a shifting all of the above onto the police, the treating all of the above as law enforcement problems.  If the use of leaded gas led to an increase in lawlessness, violence, impatience and the like, perhaps this was necessary, but if so the shift ought to be reversed today.

CNN reviews a program that went against that trend, one city with a program that complemented the law enforcement approach.  In these days with a push to defund the police, to renew traditional services provided by government, it may show a blueprint.