Attention to Crimes
* Re “Families Decry Wide Attention to Death of Chief’s Granddaughter,” June 6: While I sympathize with the families, surely they must understand that each tragic death in this country cannot receive the same level of media attention. So many tragic deaths are reported. The death of Lori Gonzalez took these deaths out of the common level and bought home the fact that we are all at risk. The Million Mom March bought home the risk that we all face.
Governments cannot fund every organization that forms against violence. Each community has a responsibility to come together and volunteer time. While the National Alliance for Positive Action is laying blame at the doorsteps of the LAPD and the media, don’t forget the doorsteps of the parents of these violent persons. It is most unfeeling for NAPA and the families to complain during such a grievous time for Chief Bernard Parks and his family. It seems that their hearts did not go out far enough.
DOROTHY L. COLLIER
Los Angeles
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