CULTURE not COPS

Many years ago we had a small retail vegetable sales stand in a rural location. We were robbed twice. In one year as soon as my lease was up, I closed that store and moved to a safer location. If you ever wonder why there no retail stores in many neighborhoods, that is why. We don't need more police, more secure safe locations because the culturally are safe.

Imagine if you leave a hundred dollar bill on a table in a restaurant by accident and someone would run you down to return it to you rather than pick it up.

Imagine if you lost your credit card on the street by accident and someone would at once bring it to the bank to return it.

Imagine you were injured and fell down, people would not only help you up, would take you to the doctor and make sure you were OK even if they didn't know you.

Imagine a store where the milk and eggs were in the cooler and a box was there for you to put the money needed to pay for and make change as you bought product.

Imagine a produce stand selling sweet corn with an honor box for you to put your money for the sweet corn you purchased and at the end of the day there was more money than would have been expected because of the corn placed there at the beginning of the day.

Imagine a place where the candy counter display was called the Honor Sales Candy Dispenser. IF you took a Hershey bar you were expected to put the correct amount of money in the jar and imagine even more that it works and works well.

I don't have to imagine that. I have lived in those places where all of this is not only possible but is part of the culture of honor. These are all part of daily life. They are all things I have seen or experienced first hand. The culture of honor is not about black, white, Hispanic, christian or pagan. It is a culture that LIVES by the golden rule and good Samaritan ethos. It is a culture anyone wanting to build a house will build, anyone wanting to start a business will, anyone wanting to hire someone will and anyone wanting to raise a family will.

Our problems aren't economic in Chicago and Detroit... they are cultural.