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NYPD Caught Faking Summons and Destroying Evidence-The Young Turks (Original Post)
daleanime
Jul 2015
OP
Is the objective "surprise fatigue" where we will come to accept any behavior?
Enthusiast
Jul 2015
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. Nothing surprises me any more
daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. Sadly, I have to agree....
Have a good night Hon, time for this old man to hit the hay.
marym625
(17,997 posts)3. Me too!
Sweet dreams
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)5. Is the objective "surprise fatigue" where we will come to accept any behavior?
Look what the Bush Administration and Wall Street got away with. This country engaged in torture. Often they tortured completely innocent people!
The entire media acts as if nothing happened.
It has become ridiculous.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)4. That broken windows horseshit and stats-based policing has ruined a lot of lives.
There are many decent, law-abiding people who end up with serious criminal records because they are subjected to repeated citations for nonsense offenses that they can't afford to pay or don't have time to go to court to deal with because beat cops are under pressure to meet their quotas.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)6. Precisely the opposite of the Founding Father's intentions.