I've noted this to friends and family alike, and even mentioned it from time to time on Facebook and Google+ (G+), and that is due to changes, some over time, some that came during the last decade (and I'm talking before President Obama took office). What I'm talking about is this nation being in a police state.
With all of the riots going on right now all over the nation thanks to two police officers getting off for the deaths that they caused, one being a gunshot, while the other happens to be a choke hold death. It's basically telling people that the police can literally get away with murder and there's nothing that anyone can do about it. The thought had been to place body cams on the officers that are out in the fields to make sure that they're not going to do anything stupid since they'd be caught on camera in the first place. However that notion was blown away with the choking death of the black man by the white police officer on Staten Island which was caught on camera, and the only one that was indicted in this was the damned camera man for filming it in the first place.
Now over the years, the police have been brought to court because of the death of someone that they claimed had broken the law and ended up pulling a gun, from a 5 year old to teens to adults. The police have gotten off literally on everything, no court will convict them and every civil case that opens up on them gets tossed out of court, and it's not the lawyers that are getting them tossed out in the first place, it's the judges that are doing this. Yes the lawyers that are defending the police officers are getting wins for the case getting tossed out of court, but the problem is, when the cases get tossed out of court it leaves the whole thing open for the police to do anything that they want to do since they know that they'll never get convicted on anything, the only thing that happens is that they get put on paid admin leave till the entire thing blows over, and either return to work or they resign in the end. However for most people that are on the other end of this for the wrongful death of a loved one, what they want is not for the person to return to work or to resign, they want that person to go to jail. After all, through all of this, the one thing that a police officer has NEVER done is gone to jail for killing anyone, doesn't matter if it was on purpose or accident or anything, they've never been punished.
Now you may be asking why are these past couple of death important, well for those that actually care, these last two are important because it's been racially involved. A white officer with a black suspect, and 9 times out of 10 each time has ended up in death. Now the Republican noise machine will tell you through Fox News that there's no more racists in the country since President Obama got elected and reelected into the White House as President of our nation, however the problem is, Fox News has been the number one leader (aside from the TEA Party) leading the charge when it comes to race. Even though they say that they're not raciest, they're the most because a black man was elected to the White House and not the white guy instead. Well gee just because he's a democrat and not rich and actually fighting for the middle class and not the rich in the first place is the number one reason why they don't happen to like him, that and the fact that he's black doesn't help matters. So they're doing everything that they can to make sure that he gets completely screwed over in the first place.
Yes our justice system is completely screwed up; however the only thing that can actually fix this is by changing things from the top down. After all, when you replace the ones at the top with judges that actually will work and fight for the people and not be completely bought off, then you know that you've got a system that actually works correctly. However in the mean time, that's not going to be happening any time soon. So because of that, justice will never be served correctly.
So is there anything that can be done, sadly at this time no there's nothing that can be done. After all, if the police shoot someone, then Internal Affairs gets involved and eventually absolves the officer of literally any wrong doing, which in turn only keeps the problem going over and over again. So let's see, suing the police is out of the question since they keep getting out of that in first place, and actually beyond that there's not anything that one can do in the end and that's the part that really happens to suck right there because of it in the first place. Look believe me, I'd love a justice system that actually worked correctly, but with everything that's going on out there, and the mass media being controlled by those that shouldn't have control over it in the first place (at least with the exception of social media that they can't control at all) there's no way that the police can be nailed for anything since no one will actually do it in the first place. After all, who's to say that if the grand jury had indicted both of those officers that the judge wouldn't have just turned around and tossed out the case, come on that is the one thing that we do have to look at as well. So till we can actually get change in the justice system, the average person is going to get screwed over because the ones that are supposed to be protecting us in the first place have turned this nation into a police state.
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Now on another more local note, there's a slightly problem here in Contra Costa County, and it's dealing with the higher ups that are acting more like congressional Republicans than they should in the first place. Right now there's a petition going around the county because the county supervisors voted to give themselves a MAJOR pay raise while only giving their works a small one, we're talking they're getting 30% increase, while the workers are only going to be getting a 3% increase. Come on here, there's something VERY wrong with this picture, and unless you're a congressional Republican you're never going to see it.
Just the fact that they did that in first place is what blows my mind away, all the while trying to justify it by say that this is to make sure that they don't have to do it again for a long while! Come on here, not only is that wrong, it's basically telling people that they would rather have the money than care about their workers more. Now the outcome has yet to be decided since the signatures are still being gathered, but this is one that I'm going to be keeping my eyes on till it's over and will be letting you know what's going on.
