<p>It is also possible that, in a high crime area, or with someone who has a personal history of being a crime victim, the person may be “trigger happy” about calling the police, resulting in more false alarms, which may be annoying for both the officers and any others who were the “suspicious persons” in the false alarms (and a mistake by either party in such an interaction could have serious consequences).</p>
<p>Re: #218</p>
<p>Police non-response to completed property crimes (where the chance of arresting a suspect for any individual crime is very low) may be due to police being used to capacity on other more serious crimes, or crimes in progress where the chance of arresting a suspect is higher. Perhaps the police department is understaffed relative to the level of crime in the area?</p>
<p>Melissa Harris-Perry’s take on the situation is stunning:</p>
<p>on.msnbc.com/1yAz1Nn</p>
<p>She’s a professor and it shows in her ability to weave together past and present. Although she is talking about black people, her expression of the anguish black parents feel as the better world they thought their children would inhabit fails to appear resonates with me. For one thing, I feel depressed about the world that that my white children will inhabit. In addition, I often think about how when I was young, a million years ago, I thought the major race issues had been pretty much solved. If I’d known then what the world would look like in my 60’s, I wouldn’t have been able to bear it. </p>
<p>Perhaps this may be due to the demographic “threat” that some conservative white people perceive in terms of the changing racial and ethnic mix of the US, as (non-Hispanic) white people will no longer be the majority of the US population by 2050 (note that this is already true in CA, HI, NM, and TX).</p>
<p><a href=“ElectoralVote”>ElectoralVote; may be another take on demographic change in the US and the political reaction.</p>
<p>To some people, there are only two forces in the world, gravity and racism. And they’re pretty suspicious that the former is derived from the latter.</p>
<p>I could only watch 1:23 of this. I couldn’t bear to watch what was going to unfold. I don’t have the stomach for abuse. What was this cops deal? This is why I pray each & every day for my sons safety. I pray that he never encounters an angry, racist, power hungry cop looking to unfurl his hate & frustrations. </p>
<p>It is a horrible black hole which leads to more and more video. The awful thing about it is the visceral impulse to call the police. Quick! Somebody call . . . a man’s getting killed her . . . wait . . . who would I call? It made me want to have the emergency news number on speed dial as they are the only ones who might be able to help. </p>
<p>By the way - the cops in the Kelly Thomas case (the video from post 226) were charged and taken to trial… where they were found not guilty on all charges.</p>
<p>Watch that video, and tell me how the heck that can be a legal thing for police to do??</p>
It seems too early even if there is no motivation there. It’s like getting married right after your spouse dies a suspicious death. It just seems callous. I can’t imagine being Garner’s family and having to receive his mailers.
One comment to the article said the title was wrong: he didn’t “fail to indict” he actually “succeeded in not indicting.”
Sounds like a perfect politician already.
For Staten Island he is perfect. Afterall, they re-elected Grimm after he was indicted on a zillion charges and on video threatened to break the bones of a local reporter and throw him off the balcony in the Capital. Astounding.
DA’s have to be elected so he is has been a politician for a long time.