Pause for a moment to notice what's going on around us

Probably not in your neighborhood, wherever you're reading this, but near enough - an exit or two away - the next neighborhood down.

We're still killing each other. Note this heartbreaking column on one street that, until now, had been an uniquely peaceful. And in it, this thought, that really stuck with me:

It's easy to mourn the so-called good kids, but making the city safe again requires us to love even the kids who aren't such innocent victims.