A Little Anger Is A Good Thing

Laughter Is A Symptom Of Spirituality. Laughter Is The Flow Of Love Coursing Through Your Body. Laughter Is The Nectar Of Present Moment Awareness. Invite More Laughter Into Your Life And Relish The Magic In Every Moment.

Since The Donald Trump Election, Which Has Involved This Administration Making Direct Attacks On Press Freedoms, You're Actually Seeing A Certain Amount Of Rallying And Reinvigoration By The National Press In Terms Of Covering National Issues And The Presidency. The Washington Post And The New York Times, Mother Jones, Propublica And A Lot Of Other Places, They've Actually Done Some Really Strong Work When Confronted With This Administration. But The Resources That You Used To Have At State And Local Level Aren't There Anymore.

The Murder Clearance Rate Now In My City Baltimore Is Almost Non-existent. Nobody Can Solve A Murder, Nobody Can Do Any Actual Police Work, Because They've Learned How To Do Bad Police Work, Chase Drugs. Fighting Vice, While Being Unable To Respond To Sin. Generations Of Cops Have Learned How Not To Police Work By Policing The Drug War. Not Only Are They Police Brutal, They're Ineffective. Baltimore Is More Violent Than It Has Ever Been In Modern History.

For A Detective Or Street Police, The Only Real Satisfaction Is The Work Itself; When A Cop Spends More And More Time Getting Aggravated With The Details, He's Finished. The Attitude Of Co-workers, The Indifference Of Superiors, The Poor Quality Of The Equipment - All Of It Pales If You Still Love The Job; All Of It Matters If You Don't.

In Baltimore They Can't Do Police Work To Save Their Lives. Now Because Of Freddie Gray They're Not Even Getting Out Of The Car And Policing Corners - They're On A Job Slowdown, Basically. Right Now If The Police Stopped Being Brutal, If We Got Police Shooting Under Control, And The Use Of Excessive Force, If We Have A Meaningful Societal Response To All That Stuff, And The Racism That Underlies It, The Question Still Remains: What Are They Policing, And Why?