Weekly Newsletter: PAYING HOMAGE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Weekly Newsletter: Law Enforcement Officers, whether they are local police officers or members of the elite Secret Service assigned to protect Presidents and their families, all make significant contributions toward ensuring the safety and protection of all citizens. Law Enforcement Officers often do not get the kind of applause they should, and perhaps some of the owness, rests with them. But in large part the nation owes a debt of gratitude to these men and women who put their lives at risk to keep our streets and borders safe.
Americans have the good fortune of getting up everyday going about their affairs almost in an oblivious manner. We don’t consciously in most of our towns, cities or states think about whether it is safe to leave our homes.  We are used to living with the ease to go and come as we please without constant  fear or danger.  We enjoy those feelings because we are conditioned to feel safe as a result of the organized presence of law enforcement.
This is certainly not to deny that we live in a time where violence and killing have become more than mere aberrations; but yet we still embrace an overall sense of safety and well-being. Tragic incidents like 9-11, Columbine, New town, Boston and many others not rising to the level of front-page newsworthy silence us for a moment, but we rise as a nation and begin again. We live in a nation where order is a high priority. We live in a nation where a 3 digit number can be dialed and someone will respond to your emergency. All human-engaged systems have glitches, ours is no exception. But we keep using our failures and short-comings to try to make good systems excellent systems.
To Law Enforcement Officers, we applaud you from the White House to the hallways of our nation’s schools. We applaud you from the local jails to Federal prison systems, our museums and airports, vigilance on land, sea and in our expansive skies. We also honor and applaud LiteBlue, the postal police and inspectors who work hard to ensure packages delivered to our homes and workplaces are safe.
To the men and women in law enforcement uniforms, we are safer because of you. This concludes our weekly newsletter.
P.S. Always Remember to Share What You Know.
Dianna Tafazoli
