Showing young people importance of respect

Rodney Sellers works for the Baytown Police Department.

“There’s a lot of disrespect for law enforcement these days.

“I think a big issue is that in the home, kids aren’t taught about respect for others. They don’t respect their parents, they don’t respect their teachers. So the same issue you see in the home floods into the schools, and when they’re older you deal with it on the streets with law enforcement. Everybody wants to be treated one way, but they don’t want to treat other people that same way.

“That’s one of the reasons my wife and I work with Cub Scouts and young people in our church, to help them see things from a different perspective. We can’t change the whole world, but we can change the part that we influence.”

— Rodney Sellers

(Update: Rodney passed away in April 2016.)