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The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors held a community forum Tuesday morning at 7:30 Pacific time.  I watched it live. So poignant and so appalling.  Board Chair James Ramos spoke of  “…sadness and anger…support for victims” and pledged “safety for all employees.”  Supervisor Lovinggood spoke of “seamless continuation of services” and a “focus on […]

My life was a mess – dad in jail, no job, nobody to turn to, everything going wrong, I couldn’t manage anything and here I had this baby coming. I was going to make a mess of another life. ~ Nafessa, with Noah age 1, on her lap at meeting at Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) […]

A gun store opened in McLean, VA, – an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. – its back door 40 feet from an elementary school, its front door 60 feet away. It sells the full range of weapons, from small handguns to large-clip assault weapons. The store had been kicked out of Arlington, VA, a neighboring […]

Given the rise in crime, and the resulting alarm – “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many Cities: Years of Decline End,” (New York Times headline, 9/1/15) – it is time to put this in perspective. Rhetoric could scuttle significant reforms, scrap promising efforts and resuscitate old draconian policies, namely, an overreliance on arrests and incarceration. […]