Officers of the Peace

TO: Police Officer Training Schools FROM: Parents EcoPolitical Cooperative for Healthy Climates Thank you for listening to our mutual concern about escalating violence between our multicultural children and your multigenerational health and safety vocation. We have a few communication suggestions that our kids have taught us over the years about more civil responses and authoritatively kind welcoming conjectures and shared concerns about not-so-civilly uncooperative behaviors. We would like to share our orthopraxis of active peacemaking through less violent communications. It is so important to begin and end each day and relationship mentoring 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 mindbody vehicle in this way at this speed in this ecopolitical environment of health risks and opportunities?" Usually, our kids are only too happy to share their documentation, 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 your cooperation." If our young offenders fail to respond with "You're welcome" Please do remind them that their mothers might have taught them with more gratitude for civil public lives and roles of responsible authority. To remember "You're welcome" is everything From economics of beginning faith to politics of ending with multicultural 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 Police Officers might have been known as Officers of Peace.