Perspective: Policing as we know it today is but a mirror reflection of much of the wider U.S. culture. Few nations have police as armed as ours; few nations have citizens as armed as ours.
St. Louis - At St. Alphonsus Liguori "Rock" Church, leaders of men's religious orders listened to and talked with activists for racial justice during "a very transformational time."
Organized religion reasserts its role to help facilitate healing in the St. Louis metropolitan area, following demonstrations about the acquittal of a white former police officer in the murder of Anthony Lamar Smith.
Story updated: Archbishop Robert Carlson led an interfaith prayer service Sept. 19 in St. Louis, a city on edge from the acquittal of a white police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a black man in 2011.
NCR Today: The Ferguson uprising lanced the infection of racism, but didn't heal it. The three years since Michael Brown's death have shown us the work we still have to do.
