The recent crime increase affects every city resident
Given the recent rise in crime in our beloved city and the recent Martin Luther King holiday, I feel it is important to stir up within us all a call to action. I am speaking to all of our city's residents since no one is exempt and no neighborhood is safe.
I dare you to think about the young man who died on the side of a highway for pieces of stolen jewelry last month. Who or what failed him? How did his ambitions, no matter how fallible, manage to go unchecked?
This recent surge of bloodletting must stop. Was it gangs, drugs, blacks, Hispanics? Where in town? I hear people ask. Martin Luther King said, "I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that merely deals with the effects and does not grapple with the underlying causes."
Traces of our collective, apathetic conscience have unavoidably begun to show.
If we all don't start to lend our talents, abilities, capabilities and credibility to bring about substantial empathetic growth through strong, persistent and determined action, then we have no right to complain when it's our home, our child or our own sense of well-being that is violated.
Glenn Robinson
Greensboro
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I agree, we need to do something. Aside from raising our children properly, and teaching them the difference between right and wrong, the first thing we need to do, is allow the police force to do their job. Crime will occur as long as there is little to no deterrent in the community for it. As long as the community and the press makes the police afraid to perform their jobs for fear of repercussions and media outrage, no amount of mentoring and community outreach in the world will solve our crime problems. I am outraged at the News and Record for their editorial where they subtly vilified the Police officer for protecting himself and countless citizens in the shooting of the 10 time felon just a few weeks back. We need police officers like the officer from the other night to be the next line in our defense after the failure of the community to properly raise their children. Do not weep for the thief, the murderer, the abusive husband...support the police in their efforts to protect and serve and make our streets safer. Until we stop making the police the "bad guys" and the criminals the "victims," there will be no solution to this or any crime problem. The first step in that would be the media outlets, like the fish wrap these comments are posted in, to stop stirring up emotions and community outrage against police doing what it takes to make the streets safe for people to walk. I call out the editors of this "newspaper" to be the first line of defense for our community, and not the instigator against our brave police officers.
Posted on February 6, 2008 11:57 AM