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Dear Friend,
George Floyd. Riots. Defund the police. COVID. Homicides and overdoses.
For many Americans, 2020 was a year they’d like to forget.
Police don’t have that luxury. During the past five years, police departments across the country have grappled with understaffing, budget cuts, low morale, and a social stigma that has made it difficult to recruit the new officers needed to patrol the streets.
In the new issue of WORLD Magazine, senior writers Emma Freire, Kim Henderson, and Mary Jackson examine how local police forces are faring today. In San Francisco, Calif., Mary reports how California voters fed up with open drug use and soft-on-crime policies are voting for change. In Baltimore, Md., Emma tells how an understaffed police department is combating a wave of juvenile crime. In Summit, Miss., Kim writes about recruitment troubles and an irreplaceable police officer who fell in the line of duty. And in Portland, Ore., Emma examines a trend of hiring private security guards to deter crime in a city with only 294 police patrol officers.
Also in this issue, Jenny Rough reports on a backlog of detainees accused of various crimes in Uganda and the Sudreau Global Justice Institute that is helping resolve their cases. One lawyer helped Rose, a young domestic labor trafficking victim, get out of prison after her trafficker accused her of stealing money.
You’ll find that and more in this May issue of the magazine. We pray these stories help you see the world more clearly and think Biblically about our calling as Christians within it.
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