'A week after the tragedy, we’re learning details that unfathomably add to the already horrendous reality.'
When I was growing up, the first number I knew by heart was 9-9-9. That’s how we call the police in England. We make it easy to learn because societally we tell ourselves that if the unimaginable happens — a horrendous car accident, a robbery, an act of random violence — men in blue uniforms will come and save us. We tell our kids this, from as young as 2 or 3-years old.
The dark details that have emerged from that scene of human tragedy are beyond comprehension for many of us — though utterly familiar to Black and Hispanic parents, who have been talking for years about police failures and usually ignored or worse, lambasted, when they try to do so.I realized on thinking about Uvalde this past week that even my own life experiences had done little to dampen my blinkered belief that if you’re in trouble, you can call the “good guys,” and they’ll come to help.
As a result, my friend has been adamant about not exposing her kid to any show that she felt glorified law enforcement of any kind — as she put it, they don’t deserve to be sanitized, adored, put on a pedestal that we as a society automatically give them, without needing to earn that trust. “Not all people dressed up in uniform realize their job is to be a servant of the people,” Pryor reflected. “I give [my kids] this analogy: You like dressing up, because it’s fun for you. Some police put on a uniform because it’s fun for them, and not because they have a servant’s heart.”
So, what do we teach our kids about a world where the historic-saviors are, like so many of us humans, in reality flawed individuals, many of whom are trying to do the right thing, but countless others who are deployed in society with a badge and a gun, and create more harm than help?A New Day Pediatric Psychology“Kids are very literal, they see the here and now. Important issues like police brutality and defunding are very conceptual and often beyond what kids can understand,” Lockhart said.
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