I don’t think we can blame the “respect” issue on the government. It is a parents duty to teach their children. If people continue to live in this “project mentality” if you will, then that is what they are teaching their kids. Anyone can do better, they have to want to. There are plenty of people out there, that are poor, but work and teach their kids right from wrong. They teach them the consequences of their poor choices. There are also wealthy people who let their kids run rampant and get away with anything. Teaching respect begins as an infant. You teach a baby it is wrong to bite, etc. You teach a toddler not to hit. All of these are life lessons.

They also have to deal with cop-suicide situations too. People will use officers as a way to committ suicide. I lost a friend recently that did just that. I sent the story to Jamie Burch (even before his name was released) and it was ignored. But, oh well. If it isn’t about stirring the racial pot, it is not news. IMO, it is not reported enough about how kids today have lost respect for ANYONE. The reason this is happening to our youth is the politically correct people we have running this country.

I think the Mobile County Sheriff’s Department and Mobile Police Department as well as the other municipal police departments do a wonderful job. Too often people want to condemn law enforcement, when they need to be saying thank you. People who are shouting about officer involved shootings need to walk a day in their shoes. If these officers had not responded to a call, or been in the process of busting up a drug ring, a child or other innocent person could have been hurt. Then everyone would be yelling “where were the police.”
People need to give law enforcement officers the respect they deserve and work with them and not against them.