Black Lives, Blue Lives: Truth on Both Sides Part II

Police racism and brutality are topics that have people drawing sides. Part I of this series describes how many of us tend to focus on one aspect of the problem without considering, or sometimes even hearing, opposing points.

Often the information we gather, whether from the media or from our community, comes with a bias that doesn’t give us the opportunity to see the big picture.

For instance, a typical argument about police bias might go as follows:

“The treatment of blacks