In response to Jamala Rogers’ column, “FOP fosters ‘us vs. them’ mentality,” I agree that the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) lobbied for the passage and signing of the “Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015” and that the FOP is the world’s largest organization of law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, that is where our agreement ends relative to her article.
Read the rest of Kevin Ahlbrand’s response here.
The investigative series on the unsolved homicides by the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) was revealing and confirming. St. Louis Public Radio, American Public Media and The Marshall Project joined forces to find out the reasons and presented their findings recently to the public.
Our time is better spent building a united front against fascism – We talk about the impending doom as if it won’t affect us or as if we have no power to change the course of political trajectory barreling towards authoritarianism.
The persistent problem of mass incarceration in the U.S. invokes the saying, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will get the same results.”
