Insights

The public rightfully pressed local governments to address how their police departments were engaging communities of color after George Floyd, a Black man, lost his life under the relentless knee of a Minneapolis officer. A lesser-known impact of the 2020 reckoning over who benefited from unconstitutional policing and who bore its burdens occurred in the private sector.

My hometown newspaper has been rife with stories lately about social service programs that had launched with lofty goals only to crash and burn a year or two later. Three lessons emerge from the debris.

Being audited doesn’t have to rank up there with root canals and other things that are eventually good for us but awful in the making. That is, if you understand the audit’s purpose and are prepared.