we will spare no expense

As the media voiced it's anger of the hanius crime...a shooting leaving 3 month baby Izack dead and his parents wounded..I heard our Mayor's comment "we will spare no expense to catch these baby killers". In a vacuum all this is true, outside of the vacuum it is true...but it is not alone.What happens when the "baby killer" is only a baby?
My mind continues to work hard to find the words, to articulate the dilemma that many of us feel....as we weep for the family of the baby killed, and with the babies that killed.
Today everyone wants justice...swift, direct and harsh.
Today everyone cares about the young Latino family with 2 kids, today everything is clear...there is black...there is white.
Yesterday...justice wasn't the word on the street...no one came running when communities were buried in poverty and unemployment. No one cared that a mom worked in the
'big house" while paid under the table, too small of an amount to make ends meet. No one cried for justice when he rode 50 min to a high school that never wanted him and found him 3 grades levels behind his peers. I heard no one outraged as he sat on my step crying...tired of being broke, scared, and lonely. These guns, the ones used in the death of baby Izack,  were not hard to get, nor is this the first or 1000th gun made easily accessable, and still I've heard no media out cries.
The truth is we have spared all expense, prior to this call for Justice. We cut the funding for youth programs, we stomped out the Dream Act, turned a blind eye to the "risk factors of  gang violence" and a deaf ear to poor families and their concerns. We have overwhemlemed our school systems, impacted juvenile systems and ignored rehibiltation options.

If convicted, we have a baby, killer, who killed a baby. a symptom of much bigger issues...bubbling under our silence.