"I wish somebody would do something about all of this."

Amazingly, it is not merely 40 year old, grieving mothers that have lost their sons to the hard streets or cemeteries of the inner-city revealing this sense of hopelessness.  It is not even overworked detectives, repulsed that they spend more time fighting  system than enforcing the law, that impart this finishing line.  Unhappily, I hear this expression from politicians, ministers, financiers and many other neighborhood leaders.  Powerful men and women of access and influence seem so weak and in such great despair when arise the topic of comforting the families of victims of homicide, missing persons and exploitation cases.  Men and women that have access to the greatest for serving the poor and needy seem dim of expression and display the most quizzical looks upon their faces.  Worst is that some will express the greatest concern for the resolution of cases rather than the comforts of families.  It seems that once the case is solved the pressure from the families, the press and the neighborhood activists will go away.  Every leader wants the "noise" to go away.  The less noise, the easier it is for everyone to close the virtual drapes on the families that still grieve.

"I wish somebody would do something about all of this."