I blocked a couple peoples feeds last night because of incendiary remarks that were thinly veiled and coded. I didn’t “delete” them so as to give them the benefit of the doubt, but they are on very thin ice with me. Regardless, I think that these people need to educate themselves better.

When we know that something is very often broken, it’s almost impossible to have faith that it worked just because someone told us it worked this time – especially when it looks like it worked AT LEAST as poorly as usual.

Yesterday, I read an article about yet another man held in jail for something he didn’t do. Thirty nine (THIRTY NINE!!) years, the prime of his life, gone.

I read another series of articles about a Brooklyn cop who shot and killed an unarmed man in a stairwell. There was no confrontation, the man simply entered the stairwell. The cops called it “accidental”. The coroner has labeled it a “homicide” (which could be accidental, but certainly seems to be at minimum, negligent if not criminal).

In another instance, a 12 year old was shot and killed for brandishing a toy gun. Now this is exactly why parents should not give toy guns to children (that’s a whole other essay), but we know what a child looks like. A cop should know what experienced aim looks like. The person who called 911 said clearly that it was a child who was brandishing what could have been a toy. That was explicitly stated prior to the arrival of the police. They killed him anyway. They killed him while a corporate board somewhere, probably with no one on it who looks like that boy or his family, congratulate themselves on the profits from selling toy guns.

These three examples are from the past week alone. Within ONE week. And that’s not comprehensive, that’s just what came to mind and has been in mainstream news. Does that seem like a system that works, and is confidence inspiring?