GOD, WHOSE WAYS ARE MYSTERIOUS AND FAR, FAR TOO HIGH FOR US TO COMPREHEND...ALLOWS MANY THINGS THAT WE NOT UNDERSTAND. HOWEVER, BECAUSE WE KNOW HE EXISTS AND HOLDS US ALL IN HIS POWERFUL HANDS, AND ESPECIALLY IN TIMES LIKE THESE - WE TURN, AND WE PUT EVERYTHING IN HIS CAPABLE HANDS. PRAYER, A POWERFUL TOOL OF THE FAITHFUL, WILL ALWAYS GIVE THE BELIEVER PEACE AND A REASON TO HOPE. BEAUTIFULLY DONE. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Police, driven by fear and adrenaline, often act offensively in defense. After encountering many angry and dangerous encounters, officers sometimes act angrily trying to avoid that one time when they could be killed while trying to calm a dangerous situation. They should never get angry and be professional, but they do, especially when threatened by angry taunts or after their adrenaline is all very high from a very long chase of a suspect.

Far more deadly to young men is the insidious, corporate greed of incarceration. Young people are being imprisoned for nonviolent crimes that could be treated much differently than putting them away where they are abused and forced to learn prison culture just to survive. Only to be thrown out on the streets with no place to live or job because they have a record (even though they've served their time). The profit-making prisons keep them as long as they can and welcome them back as they create more prison space and more ways of dehumanizing those incarcerated. The cycle is vicious and taking more lives than what's happening on the streets.

Ron

GREAT poetic truths! We send our youth to fight in foreign lands galore and forget to fix problems we have on our own shores. Truth be known we should enlist in an Army that helps our fellow brothers right here at home. Amen!