Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...after a long illness. The oldest of four kids, Martha is responsible and articulate. But she is still a young child, struggling with sadness and grief for the first time. Martha and her siblings have responded in line with their ages and temperaments, but all have experienced degrees of fear, anxiety and what their mother describes as "despair...
...institution becomes more fragile, we've become even more attached to the symbolism. As shown by the Defense of Marriage Act, people get apoplectic at the thought of gay weddings because they fear that puncturing the traditions of marriage would expose the weakness of the institution. Also because gay weddings would make straight weddings look...
...encouraged--by politicians or police leaders or acquiescence from the community--to tolerate lowering of constitutional guidelines in order to reduce crime. Legal rules such as the Miranda guidelines are intended to curb police excesses. But those guidelines seem to disappear in the heat of an adrenaline rush and fear. Only constant supervision and training can prevent abuses and mistakes...
...mantra of the New York Street Crime Unit, were meaningful to the good officers committed to taking back the streets from criminals. However, as crime rates fell and guns were removed from predators, the slogan and the tactics should have changed. Criminals were not the only ones in fear of aggressive policing; so were many law-abiding citizens, particularly in the minority community, with whom the safety of the night should have been shared. Worse, in Los Angeles those corrupt officers believed they not only owned the night but owned everyone and everything in the name of that same...
...begin to communicate in an atmosphere of openness and trust. The goal is to seek a common ground; that means each group must appreciate the concerns of the others. Only then will we have bridges, not barriers, on the streets where the community and the police are still in fear of each other. It is time to end that fear. It is time to start talking to each other, not past each other...