The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
...seems especially appropriate right now, given the status of unrest in places like Baltimore.
But, the right thing does require some deeper consideration. For example, there is something right that is needed in this moment...from the community, its citizens, its leadership, its police. However, this isn't happening in a vacuum, so there is something right that needed to be considered before now, too. What are the more significant contributing factors, that create the context for the situations we are now facing?
I heard a comment as a segment of a radio program was ending. It went something like this: police cannot control society by themselves. Society and police need to work together to control society.
It is time....
