MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY HEMORRHAGING

MY THOUGHTS ON MILWAUKEE’S VIOLENT DEATHS I start by repeating something everyone knows or should know – where ever you find a community locked in by poverty and the absence of education and jobs to alleviate that poverty, violence will be present and become a way of life. When people are starving and can’t feed their minds and bodies they will feed on each other; some among those people will become cannibals – no matter the color of their skin. Don’t conclude that I’m saying the problem is systemic and nothing can be done to solve it. Human choices create social problems and human choices can solve them. Since Milwaukee, that’s all of us, has a community that’s bleeding-out, logic tells me we have to first stop the bleeding. This means stopping the persons who are killing us. There are those among us who don’t give a damn about human life – they place no value in it. We can’t continue to hide and protect them while they continue to kill us. I’ve long considered the phrase ‘killed in a drive-by’ an understatement – one is led to believe that a killer fires into a crowd or house indiscriminately and an innocent life is taken. That’s not true. A killer more often than not has a specific target. When we make the effort to determine who the target was a killer can be more easily identified. There has to be collaboration between law enforcers and residents in impoverished communities to remove killers from among us. Some law enforcers must get rid of the notion that all residents in a community are to be treated as criminals. That attitude provokes law abiding residents to withhold information that could lead to removing killers from the community. WE MUST STOP THE BLEEDING! http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC