I started to write this piece yesterday afternoon as I was minding kids as a school parent. The point of it is supposed to be how 'not there' I am - 'there' meaning in the ferocious grip of the controversy over the latest tragedy of [another] black kid shot to death by the LAPD. But that would miss the point that I feel I owe, because in so many ways I have been at Ground Zero of 'there'. [...]
| Continue Cobb's "Driving While Black: A Personal History"
No one is here to read about my life. I know that because I don't much write about it, and you're here. But sometimes...and due to a lack of decent social reflexes (maaaaybe I'll write about that too) there's rarely anyone I can vent on.
Recently Mayor Bloomberg appeared on Staten Island to tell folks all the wonderful things he has in mind for us. One thing he promised was to increase police presence around here, and damned if he didn't do it...it looks like the whole graduating class of the Police Academy has been assigned to my neighborhood and that is NOT hyperbole.
Frankly, I'm a bit tired of them. Cops expect you to react to their mere presence (I will never forget my encounter with the now officially disbanded Street Crimes Unit). [...]
| Continue Prometheus 6's "You never need a cop when there's one around"
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