For Bay Area officers, these are tense times

Jonathan Simon interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2016

“The media has been giving all of these events, especially Dallas and Baton Rouge, assassination-level coverage, like with President Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr.,” Simon said. “And that exacerbates things — the rhetoric, the emotions. If we give that much space to shootings, let’s give the same space to discussion of policing, to real grievances, to why these shootings are happening.”