AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA

摘要

DEAR AMERICA: BOY, WHAT A year it has been. Pandemic, economic crisis, quarantines, murder hornets, and now social unrest. I wish I could say it is going to be alright, and we will be okay, but to be perfectly honest I have never seen it so bad, and I want to share some thoughts with you about that. I keep hearing that we need to have a conversation about today's hot issues, but every time I try to engage in an actual discussion I am told to shut up and listen because of my race, profession, or argument. In a society that considers racists and racism to be vile, bearing false witness against me by accusing me of these very traits stings deeply. Further, my life's profession and love, law enforcement, has done everything asked of it in my lifetime, and yet, today, anyone who dares say something positive or debate the current narrative that policing is somehow systemically racist and vile is "canceled" or ostracized. I guess the real problem is our leaders; politicians and elites have passed the buck on most social problems and require the police to handle them. Drug abuse? Pass some laws and have the police handle it. Mental illness? Empty the sanitoriums and asylums, put the people on the streets, and let the cops handle it. Gangs? Urban violence? Poverty? Get some cops in there and throw money at the problem without solving the core issue of education and opportunity.