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The Wire (tv program)
Revisit 'old-school' police programs
Revisit 'old-school' police programs

The recent influx of citizen unrest due to a rash of officer-related homicides has left the American citizenry skeptical of the greater good police departments bring to communities nationwide, especially that of traditionally violent neighborhoods that tend to have a majority of minority residents. And while these atrocious acts of injustice have left our leaders clueless as to how to effectively move forward the very constituencies they are elected to represent, it leaves an obvious void of ineffective leadership that has largely silenced the intellectual voices of opposition that continues to grow with each case of injustice. As an 81-year old public servant who has spent more than...