Educating Kristen Schroer
* Re “Summer of Her Discontent,” Aug. 27.
When reading this article about Kristen Schroer’s arrest at the Democratic National Convention, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. This highly favored child of America lives in Thousand Oaks, one of the safest cities of its size in the United States, and she talks of “police brutality.”
I don’t think her education at UC Davis will teach her reality, but it would be educational for her to spend some time in downtown Los Angeles, where police are in a war for the streets on a day-to-day basis--not just on summer holidays. Perhaps she would then be able to better balance her activism with understanding.
I pray to God she does not become a lawyer. I urger her to become a police officer.
RICHARD S. HAWLEY
Thousand Oaks
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