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It is worth taking a step back and recalling how long the problem of police brutality existed BEFORE it became a hot-button issue. For the longest time, raising
by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
It is worth taking a step back and recalling how long the problem of police brutality existed BEFORE it became a hot-button issue. For the longest time, raising such issues would incite accusations that one is either sympathetic to criminals or naively on the track to "Escape from NY" levels of crime.
Theodore Roosevelt regretted not having reformed American health care in his time in office. It took this long to get the imperfect ACA. Police brutality as a national issue is no different. Unless there is serious, sustained momentum for change, it simply won't come. This video should be such a reminder.
- tsotha 11y agoPolice brutality is in the headlines a lot recently because there are factions that benefit from it politically. When that's no longer true it'll drop out of the headlines regardless of what gets done. I hope people who are sympathetic to doing something about it realize this. They don't have an unlimited amount of time to come up with reasonable proposals.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoCorrect, and fans of the Voting Rights Act should be there as a reminder that "rights" can be hard lost as they are hard won. There is no inevitably in humanity. The best we can expect is reproduction.