Of all the sloganeering of 2020, he thinks that slice of anti-police rhetoric is the most dangerous.
“I don’t want to say, ‘Hey, you’re wrong,’ but I do think they’re wrong,” he said. “I don’t know how you would even debate that. They are not saying improve; they are saying destroy.”
Mr. Petersen isn’t exactly a disinterested observer. He is the senior researcher for Right on Crime and the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
In that capacity, he tries to make better cops by developing a training formula for police departments nationwide. The goal is to help police better serve their communities and, perhaps, improve their image in the process.