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Black Criminals, White Cops

I titled it that way for a reason. There comes a moment in nearly every human life when each of us must confront our demons. Some identify the problem and get a shot at wellness, others pretend they have no demons and continue to remain sick and ultimately decline. There is no other way. I can not remember any problem in my life from blood clots to burst water mains in my front yard that didn't require recognition that something was wrong, a diagnosis or plan for resolving the issue, action, and follow up. That's how those problems get fixed including violent crime in America. In America, if we removed five cities from our violent crime rates- Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, and New Orleans- we'd have a relatively safe world.  http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world.html So what do those five cities have in common? What can we learn from them? They are led by democratic leadership, they have statistically large populations of