Letters to the Editor - A Fathers Day to forget - A Father’s Day to forget

    For any father, Father’s day is a celebration of Dad. It is a day for him to reflect on his role as a leader and a mentor to his children. So, imagine the horror of my neighbor upon returning from an enjoyable Father’s Day weekend of camping with his children only to be confronted with the peculiar reality that his computer monitor, cracked and broken, was laying in the middle of his driveway. A stain on an otherwise perfect weekend, this was the telltale sign that his Northside home had, like a great many others before it (including my own), been burglarized.

    It seems some of us have accepted this as “life on the Northside” or life in the world today. However, it only reinforces my belief in re-asserting government’s primary role of protecting its citizens and their property.

    My neighbor suffered a most unfortunate and sentimental loss when the computer containing precious and memorable family photos of his journey as a father were stolen. And, although his case is not rare or distinctive, my hope is that while so many of us preserve the moments of our children’s lives and other critical data on our computers, we as citizens encourage our police force to do the same.

    From lifting fingerprints at a crime scene, to having the means, the personnel, and the database to then keep records of criminals, their activity, and their movements within a community, to a judicial system that punishes their offenses, only then will our brave policemen and women be fully able to “serve and protect” the citizen and their property.

Grant Cermak

Victory