Steve, I personally find the Santa Fe police force to be very good at being empathetic and encouraging peaceful conflict. As someone who has spent half of my life living in dense urban centers, I often feel a responsibility to witness when I see police interactions with others. Moving to Santa Fe has done a lot to remediate my feelings around the police. Further, while there is a very long way to go wrt race and equity, the discussion has been explicitly in motion here in New Mexico for a long time. Is it possible that our apparent *isolation from the broader unrest* is a sign of maturity within our social discourse? I have some concern that there may be a rising pressure across the diverse regions of our country to abstract away our differences, and to behave as if the discourse is *everywhere the same*. Doing so in many cases would erase the very good work that has been hard-won.
Jon
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