On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Maybe these sorts of stories are just being covered more now but it seems > to me that police have been taking an increasingly brutal line toward > anyone that questions their actions. It's been like this for a long time, > of course, for minorities and poor folks, but the behavior seems to be > spreading and becoming more and more brazen as time goes on. Maybe I'm > just projecting, though. Regardless, it's fucked up.
10%(?) of any given group of people is a jerk. I really don't think "it's getting worse". I do think that recursively fed headlines via sites like Facebook are making many people feel like "it's getting worse all the time" since people are increasingly silo'd into echo chambers and groupthink on social media. Add in the polarization of TV and other media not to mention politics and really the only think you are ever going to see is this unending stream of how bad XYZ thing is because the group you are surrounding yourself with (or who is surrounding you semi-against your will) keeps repeating it over and over like a brainwashing chant. I think it's super easy to look around and think things are so much worse today because of this. In the case of police, I think social media and exposure is actually making the police think twice before each action - not grow bolder in misbehavior. But what kinda shocking leading headlines does that make? -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370342 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
