How-some-ever, I believe it is important. Besides, I’m old. I won’t live long anyway. I suppose a little courage does come with age.

I do not remember the exact time, but it seems to have been around 1972 when I heard a news report (I have no idea which station it was). The Memphis Police Department tracked which parts of town had the greatest amount of crime.

It was working. They were making arrests, and crime rates were going down. Then the complaints started. Why? You might ask. The method was resulting in an ‘unfair’ number of Black people being arrested.

The police had to back off. They went back to patrolling in a uniform manner.

I’ll let you connect the dots. I’ll simply stick to sharing the intel.