THE SCENE OF A CRIME

A detective said that the first impression he got at the scene of a crime was exactly how it happened. Not all crimes are illegal but all have scenes from which one can get an impression. Many people are not willing to even get an impression. To deny what we see, perhaps, is part of the human condition. Poor children are being kept in jails -with some horror stories coming from the so called shelters where they are being locked-up-, and yet, many self-identified righteous citizens refuse to see what is happening or simply dismiss it, since they are more concerned with the larger political discourses. Lawyers and social activists and collectively signed letters are protesting, trying to get them out into safer and healthier environments where they can be cared for; homes of volunteers or, even better, with their own parents. Though, it seems as if there are too many of them, when compared with the numbers of the rest of the total population, the figures are very small. To hear politicians and talking-heads disregard what these children are going through or to enter into larger abstract political discourses is to deny that a crime is taking place, regardless, if it is against one child or thousands.