Abraham Lincoln once said "I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free." In a few short years, a war was being fought to decide that question, and it was a war in which almost 500,000 Americans became casualties. A very similar question plagues the minds of law enforcement these days - how long can our nation endure if the criminal population continues to rise? Today's story opens at the chapel of a funeral home, where a newlywed wife is mourning the death of her recently murdered husband.