On October 5, 2016, the Attorney General of the United States, Loretta E. Lynch, wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post entitled “A Better Way of Policing”. Her principal theme to bridge the divide between the police and the policed is a generalized, non-specific urging everyone to be nice, try to understand each other, […]
Power Shift
I grew up professionally during the beginning and growth of three significant social movements of the past half century: the judicial movement which began in the early 60’s with the important civil liberties decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the Civil Rights Movement, and […]
A Tale of Two Cities
The two latest shootings to receive national attention in the news took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and two days later in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protests in Tulsa were short lived, and were not accompanied by rioting. In Charlotte, nightly protests took place for a week, and there was rioting, looting and property destruction. In […]
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