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See this comment I wrote 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398314 Her brother was a good, hard-
by jimt1234 5y ago
See this comment I wrote 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398314
Her brother was a good, hard-working, enterprising dude. The situation basically broke him, and not just financially. He was always a "manly man", a strong head of his household, but he and his family had to go live with his mother. The whole situation was so sad, and for nothing - a handful of Modesto cops saw an opportunity to get free shit.
- sdoering 5y agoWow. I am speechless. I can't understand how a society can accept a practice like that. I know that there is a lot of shit in Germany if you dig for it. But that is a very different level.
- polotics 5y agoMy shock at realizing, at the Ivy-league graduation ceremony of a cousin, that the demeanor and vibe of even the most elite eastern US-ians had something of the wild west in it.
- vkou 5y ago> Wow. I am speechless. I can't understand how a society can accept a practice like that. I hate to be glib about it, but that's Modesto for you. Most of the towns in that area are ran in that way. It's especially bad when it comes to corruption and criminality within the police, because they face next to no accountability from higher up the political ladder (they are essentially untouchable by the state and federal government), and because ~half the local voters will unconditionally support them, and because there's only so many political fights the other ~half will get into.