Childhood Ignorance and the Mother of Stone In Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” there is a poignant line that resonates with the reality of the world we live in: “There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.” These […]
The demographic of society has changed dramatically over the last 20 years and with that law enforcement has been changing, but have they been changing enough? Different law enforcement agencies have their own ways of implementing diversity in their practices and procedures, some of them are better than others, but with issues that happen today […]
A five-year-old girl stands alone in a room. There’s silence; no one is watching her but me. She climbs atop a bar stool that towers over her head. There’s no one to halt her curiosity or tell her to get down. She knows better, but she’s reckless. With her arms stiff at her sides, she […]