Re: July 13 guest commentary.
Kathleen Rork Pollock’s guest commentary is overwrought when it is not offensive. She effuses rather than analyzes, as you would expect a board-certified clinical psychologist to do. Writing about the perpetrators in the shooting deaths of police officers, she’s not content to describe them as what they are: criminals and murderers. She must call them “subhuman life forms.” That’s race talk. Even more wrongly, she insists that police shootings of blameless black citizens are the work of “a very few.” Maybe “a very few” in relation to the to total number of police officers in the country, but certainly not “a very few” in relation to the black community or to any of us who are thoughtful citizens. To us, these shootings appear to be part of an epidemic. It’s one thing to support the police, as most of us do, but another thing to mindlessly cheerlead for them.
David Chamberlain, Denver
Kathleen Rork Pollock’s guest commentary is the most timely and honest piece of journalism I’ve read since this national nightmare began. The only other bit of honesty that has escaped everyone is that if anyone (black, white, brown) is stopped by the police, follow their orders. You are always given your rights and access to a lawyer at the police station. There seems to be an attitude that if I don’t like the police or what they are telling me to do. I can do what I want and “to hell with law and order.”
James Smith, Loveland
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