Every profession has bad employees. Police departments around the nation are no exception. Yet, we cannot have peace in the streets of America without justice, and we cannot have justice without a healthy respect for police officers and the rule of law by all Americans.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on July 2, 2023 An Editorial Opinion In today’s self-centered and fickle society, so many...

I knew they would eventually come for me. When I visited Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robbens Island in 2012, I prayed in silence, alone, for about 10 minutes and asked God to give me the strength that he gave Mandela when they came for him. When they came, my specialized training in the art of social justice Lawfare enabled me to survive a law enforcement lynching.

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 14, 2018 Every day, police officers across America don the uniform, leave...