The Christian Science Monitor Daily for March 29, 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "There's a whole garden of approaches, with different styles and modalities and theories of change," says Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
42% : "What's new, or seems new, is that we've reached the point that relying on law enforcement for all of our public safety problems became too obviously problematic."
37% : Law enforcement officials and experts on violence say possible causes include the strain and disruptions of the coronavirus, the civil unrest of recent years, and a police backlash to the "defund the police" movement.

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