of Solomon

I was reading Psalms 72 today, and recalled the police blotter from yesterday. "He will have compassion on the poor and needy, And the lives of the needy he will save. He will rescue their life from oppression and violence, And their blood will be precious in his sight;"

The police tend to arrest more of the poor--because the other poor are the ones who need the help most often. The violent and the oppressors are often neighbors. The slaver is on the street corner.