Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Police Shooting Records Are Now Public In California — And Cops Are Fighting It (HBO)" video.

  1. @Johann Fischer First - transparency and full and prompt compliance with Freedom of Information requests are vital to fight corruption and attempts to hide and destroy the documentation of the times that the enforcement agent of the various governmental agencies inure or kill the citizens of this government. But it will also provide the fuel for a completely justified outrage that will rise to the level of hatred for the system that hides the acts of "a few bad apples", exonerating, retiring with benefits, or moving them on to another jurisdiction. And it's a hatred that I can't deny to those in the families and communities that have been directly injured by these systems and their enforcers. I love the ideal and the dream of what the United States is supposed to be, but I'm also well-enough informed to hate the way it's being run and hate the vast majority of the people who own it and those who run it for them. While we've always been a divided nation and people over a host of subjects, it does feel like it's gotten worse over the last decade. Maybe it's just because there is so much more information always coming at us, but it feels like we usually argue about the color of the curtains in the room and if they should even still be called curtains instead of joining together and say "holy crap - the rooms on fire!" and putting it out. I'm just wondering which room we should start with because the whole damned house seems like it's in some state of conflagration. So to finish out this fiery metaphor, it's understandable that the people in charge don't want to disclose these documents because the knowledge of what they've been covering up will generate some hate and will certainly add fuel to the fire burning in their house. Then there is the financial component to the whole thing which is one of if not the main root of all these problems. Follow the money!
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