Rachel Harmon: preference

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…What about mandatory therapist visits for each policeman or [police]woman? I don’t know about mandatory therapist visits, but I would say that we have to prioritize the health and well-being of police officers because police officers who are overly stressed or who are hurt physically or mentally are more likely to hurt others. So we have to take seriously officer well-being. Now, what that means can be complicated. We want our officers to be able to get the therapy services they need. Often peer services work better. Some departments are looking to the military model for increasing well-being because officer suicides are a huge problem right now. But we also want to make sure that an officer who is potentially in crisis or harmful to others isn’t on the street. States are struggling with the tradeoffs between protecting officers to make sure they seek the help they need and ensuring that officers are removed if they are risky to others. You spent quite a few years working on the issue of sexual assault by police, right? What’s the main thing the American public does not know about that topic?…

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