fbi | Given Georgetown’s remarkable history, and that of President Healy,
this struck me as an appropriate place to talk about the difficult
relationship between law enforcement and the communities we are sworn to
serve and protect.
With the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Eric Garner
in Staten Island, the ongoing protests throughout the country, and the
assassinations of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, we are at a
crossroads. As a society, we can choose to live our everyday lives,
raising our families and going to work, hoping that someone, somewhere,
will do something to ease the tension—to smooth over the conflict. We
can roll up our car windows, turn up the radio and drive around these
problems, or we can choose to have an open and honest discussion about
what our relationship is today—what it should be, what it could be, and
what it needs to be—if we took more time to better understand one
another.
