Officers of the Peace

TO: Police Officer Training Schools FROM: Parents Political Cooperative for Healthy Climates Thank you for listening to our mutual concern about escalating violence between our multicultural children and your multigenerational peace and safety vocation. We have a few communication suggestions that our kids have taught us over the years about more civil responses and responsibly kind welcoming conjectures and shared concerns about not-so-civilly uncooperative and authoritarian behaviors. We would like to share our orthopraxis of active peacemaking through less violent communications. It is so important to begin and end each relationship and probably each day with please and thank you. Also remember to reward You're Welcome as always, in our shared civil lives. We find that when we have chased a speeding stoned-out son or daughter down, it helps to begin with "Thank you so much for stopping." With a genuine smile, if at all possible. This generally provokes shock and awe about our unusual restraint. Within this pocket of silence we recommend planting a kind, but quick, follow-up "Would you please be kind enough to show me your license to drive your mind and body in this direction at this speed in this polarized habitat of health risks and systemic trauma opportunities?" Usually, our kids are only too happy to share their victimized history, such as it has become, to date. When this is the case, please do not forget to respond with gratitude, "Thank you so much for sharing." If our young offenders fail to respond with "You're welcome" Please do remind them that their mothers might have taught them more gratitude for civil communication lives and responsive roles for personal authority. To remember "You're welcome" is everything From economics of growing transactional trust to politics of re-membering interdependent grace. Sometimes translated as Aloha Namaste Peace but never Whatever...! You're Welcome is our mantra of cooperative ecopolitical civic lives. You're welcome because we know you're doing the best you can, bless your competitive little egocentric heart. You're welcome because we're all on this road together, racing through lives screaming for a more civil pace, we are diversely enculturing mentors of welcome, Namaste. If not, then try to recall, as we do, when authoritarian military-industrialized Police Officers might have been known as responsible Officers of Peace with kind voices and carrying big sticks.