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Worth a Look: In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.

  We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan Perspective. Sometimes we need to see thingsĀ from different sides of an issue to get a better understanding of what is going on. Most of the current dialogue about “the militarization of the police” is exaggerated. The term […]

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Where are the Answers to Stop Urban Violence?

A question. OK. Several questions. But the big question, the point of this post, is where are the answers to stop urban violence? I ask this because we can all agree that street violence is, and has been, off the hook for some time now. That we know. Even despite the gazillion theories about why […]

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