The nation is in a mistrust spiral between people and police.
That spiral was caused by three big-picture factors:
1. Post 9/11 militarization that stole community-oriented policing from local agencies to build tanks.
2. Misuse of Big Data, incentivizing quantity over quality policing.
3. Our legacy of racial prejudice.
The White House needs to recognize police anger at being blamed for these factors—and turn this mistrust spiral into a trust spiral by giving back police's essential counter-terrorism mission.
You do that by supporting the federal budget that reallocates $4.75 million in Defense funding from defunct interrogation programs to fund research community trust-building research.