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Khaled was a 29-year-old Alexandrian who was killed by police.

So was my family, who started looking for me in hospitals, police stations and even morgues.

If a police officer ever pulls you over for speeding and asks, "Do you know how fast you were going?" an insightful, though perhaps unwise, reply would be, "Relative to what?"

And then, as you sit in the backseat of the police car and feel it accelerate toward jail, you can add, "But some things are absolute!"

I have been a police officer for a very, very long time.

I've been a police officer for a very long time, and I mean I predated technology.

I predate so much and I've been through ebbs and flows and I've been through good and bad times, and still I absolutely love being a police officer.

I love being a police officer because it's always been a calling for me and never a job.

We still did it because we listened to that inner spirit, because I realized this: if I was to see real police reform in the communities that I had authority over for public safety, we had to change our stinkin' thinkin'.

See, police have a problem.

If I was a natural police department and I represented a police department, you would see this incredible, beautiful, 23-inch arm.

There is no way in the world that we, as a community, should be calling the police for kids playing ball in the street.

No way in the world that we should be calling the police because my neighbor's music is up too loud, because his dog came over to my yard and did a number two; there's no way we should be calling the police.

So we came up with some incredible initiatives, engagements for our community and police to build that trust back.

But I gotta tell you this: these last few years, as much as we had learned to become great proactive police officers and great relational police officers rather than reactive, these last years have disappointed me.

I'm excited again, because now we have a police commissioner who not only talks about community policing, but he absolutely understands it, and more importantly, he embraces it.

But this wasn't a scene from a horror film or a gruesome police report.

We used social media to support our goal and already on day two, police started to come to our home and school.

The police have followed the scent to a street with five identical looking houses.

When you arrive on the scene, the police tell you what they know.

You and the police burst into the house, catching the thief fish-handed.

They already felt empowered enough to police her use of the so-called public bathrooms.

Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they glimpsed fleeing the crime scene.

And as one police chief in the Washington, DC area recently told me, people don't actually get radicalized at mosques.

I am the adopted son of a police officer, a Marine and a hairdresser.

And they all contained childhood trauma, victimization, poverty, loss, disengagement from school, early interaction with the police and the criminal justice system, all leading to a seat in a courtroom.

We complain, we tweet, we protest about the police, about sentencing laws and about prison.

In most cases, not the judge, not the police, not the legislature, not the mayor, not the governor, not the President can tell us how to prosecute our cases.

Less than 10 percent will ever report their assault to their school or to the police.

In fact, only six percent of assaults reported to the police end with the assailant spending a single day in prison.

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