Want A Memorial for Fallen Yarmouth Police Officer?  Try This

Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented in the 1840s (in Boston), the point was to provide convicts with an adjustment to life on the outside so they wouldn't just go right back to stealing.

Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented in the 1840s (in Boston), the point was to provide convicts with an adjustment to life on the outside so they wouldn't just go right back to stealing.…