The Daily Item: Lynn police take aim at gang-related crime
This
is nice but I don't feel safer yet. I question how effective this
program or anyone costing who knows how much will be. This is not a
policing or enforcement problem. It is an economic and moral one. Too
many people with too little to do. The only way yo provide any kind of
solution to this problem is through education. We've got to learn to be
nice, to have respect of ourselves and our neighbors.
Textbooks
and slide rules are expensive but common courtesy are free. I was
walking downtown today, by the Blue Ox I think and I kind of stepped
aside to let two policeman by. They were talking to each other about
something. I don't know the particulars but there was no crisis and it
definitely wasn't about official business. They never broke
conversation. Not an "Excuse me", "Good afternoon", or even a "Hello".
An
opportunity was lost. There was a chance for these officers to work on
building a good rapport with their neighbors (my wife was with me) and
it wouldn't have cost a thing. Now if these officers wouldn't take the
time to exchange salutations with a poor, disabled poet, what do you
think the chances are they would have greeted a tattooed teenager with
his jeans sagging. Positive experiences now help prevent negative
actions in the future. It's up to us to teach, we control what they can
learn.
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