American - Clergyman | May 19, 1954 -
If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.
Greg Boyle
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The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.
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We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.
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The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.
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We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager.
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I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution.
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I didn't take my vows to the LAPD.
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The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?
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Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor.
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We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.
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The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.
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God is compassion.
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