Shelter Island has been given the opportunity to look into the mirror. Three mirrors, actually: one is a look into residents’ relationship with the Police Department; one into a comprehensive view of the Island today; and one into how seriously the community wants to make affordable housing a reality. The Police Reform committee — officially known as the Shelter Island Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative — was set up by state mandate in the wake of America’s long, hot summer of 2020, when police misconduct, including brutality and in some cases murder, brought people into the streets in protest. Here on Shelter Island, students organized a demonstration unlike any in living memory to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement, attracting close to 1,000 people to a march in the Center.