53 Years and We Haven’t Learned a Thing

We can’t pray our way out; we can’t train our way out; technology won’t find a way out of the problem of racism and police violence. There must be rules, structure, and accountability. We must be rethinking the role of police and the community. Police should not have “relations” to the community; they should be … Read more

Trip to Fantasy Land

  Friday the 13th I decided I had to get away from the cell phone, computer, people, and heat, so I headed up north.  Shortly after noon, I hit Payson and stopped to eat. I missed the first café so I went to the second (Bee Line) but as I went to pull in, it … Read more

Free the Nipple

    In Free the Nipple et al v. city of Fort Collins, Co. the U.S. District Judge in 2017 decided that the plaintiffs, a group of women who desired to be able to go topless as men did, asked for an injunction to stop the city from enforcing an ordinance that prohibited women from … Read more

DEFUND POLICE – Yes or No? 

    To answer that, ask yourself three questions:  1) are police the best ones to respond to people with mental illness; 2) are police the best ones to respond to the homeless; and 3) are police the best ones to respond to children’s behavior in schools? Let’s look at each one.  Back in the … Read more