Not sure how to say this without sounding like a jerk...
But maybe you need to go start a blog or Facebook page that just posts bad behavior by cops over and over and over and over and over in an endless loop.
I generally agree with you. Police need to show more restraint, citizens rights need to be better respected, police and prosecutors do circle the wagons. And yes, it happens way WAY too often.
But this is a broken record in two or three threads.
Maybe we can limit it to Oklahoma related ones?
Dunno... but it isn't fostering any meaningful discussion anymore.
Not a jerk at all. You are highlighting a point - lack of interest on so many topics, by most people, more concerned about day to day survival than somewhat abstract events that rarely impinge on their lives. People letting today's urgency take over tomorrow's critical !! Only 50 or so cops a year killed in the line of duty affecting family and friends - a relatively small number in the entire population. 1,000 or so killed by cops every year, again affecting family and friends - still a relatively small number in the overall scheme of things. Tough to stay excited for more than "sound bite moments" when it doesn't directly touch.
I have ranted for 12 years about the insanity and just flat out wrongness of going into Iraq in 2003 to get rid of Saddam Hussein...with all the accompanying undesirable side effects. (Dead babies - our kids, squandered wealth and goodwill, tens of thousands wounded) It has cost me considerably in this state in great part due to the lack of education but mostly lack of interest by most people!! But the last few months, we see the extremist right wing starting to make noises about how maybe getting rid of him wasn't such a great idea. Ted Cruz the most recent one in the last couple of days. Will Smith said it best in I, Robot... "Ya know,...somehow I told you so just doesn't quite say it..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgeCZW3upgAnd for decades have been a strong advocate of environmental concerns/issues. Last decade or so, I have just kinda given up on that one - we are hell-bent for leather to just go right on down the tubes with no thought or consideration for our kids, grandkids, and other future generations! Sad.
Last night, I watched the Holtzclaw verdict and thought how good it was that justice was served. And then thought of the friends whose lives have been so badly disrupted by Mark Allen Eaton (another rant I have been making for a while) where the corruption, cronyism, and 'good ole boy' back room deal making by Tulsa County Tim Harris DA office, and the judge that wouldn't accept his plea, has let off a self confessed attempted murderer!!
So the question is, how do ya keep a topic in front of people's awareness zone, without it becoming tiresome and repetitive?? I sure haven't figured it out. Probably can't be done unless it becomes so egregious, stacked on top of many other egregious events, that if finally impinges on people's sense of right and fair play. We are still waiting on that with the whole transfer of wealth thing destroying the middle class in this country. And rebuilding the capital building, while letting our kids suffer - literally - in today's economic reality.
Maybe consolidate onto one thread...?
I'm out of ideas for now....