My Child Wants to Be a Cop — Here’s My Letter to Him

After unlearning my own childhood obsession with the police, I’m giving my child the tools to shape his own worldview

Jayson Kristopher Jones
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9 min readMar 1, 2021

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The year is 2020. As usual, the news is on in our home, providing a background ambiance for our daily lives. The reporter, a White woman who is almost in tears, describes the…

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