Priorities

A lady on the bus one day was telling me a few things about her neighborhood, part of my run that I do on a daily basis. She talked about budget cuts, lights in the neighborhood, or certain parts of the area were turned off to save money. A kid on a bike got killed and strangely enough the lights came back on.

Budget cuts. Lack of man power and or resources. That was quoted to me concerning my missing child. Can you imagine the rage I felt and any parent would feel if they were told that? We just don't have the funding to find your son or determine what happened to him.

Over a year later and Kevin still isn't a priority. A year ago to the day almost I organized my search for Kevin down at 4th and Court, where he supposedly was last seen. The police would not help with the search.

A week or so ago I turned on the tv mid-day just for a littlr noise. Tony Danza was on and had a guest on unfamiliar to me but someone celebrity enough and promoting a new book. They showed a clip of him talking about the Natalie Hollaway case. He said Americans should boycot Aruba and their gov't would come up with answers fast.

What does the average nobody American citizen do? What do we do, because it isn't only me, my story and Kevin's story. It can happen to anybody and has many times I'm sure. Priorities. What are we really protected against. What really are the priorities of the Des Moines police dept.

Back in New York I saw a police car from one of the surrounding communities. It said on the side of the police car, "to protect and to serve". As far as I'm concerned that doesn't hold for everybody, at least not here anyway.