After a gunman opened fire and set off smoke bombs in a Brooklyn subway, the NYPD investigation was hampered by the fact that none of the cameras in the station were working. According to officials, many of the surveillance cameras in the subway system are out of order at any given time.
Big Brother Is a Slacker
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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As always, the State watches in different/indifferent) ways. Of course the cameras don’t work in a Brooklyn subway station. It isn’t Manhattan. (Sidebar: the New York Times ran an article the other day about people paying $12K to $18K a month for luxe new condo rentals and having to content with sloppy construction and broken elevators — how often does the Times cover this when it’s in the poverty regions of the city?) This selectivity is baked into the system on both sides. Right now, over at DailyKos, some Biden supporter is splooshing hard about Biden being so swell. Not a word about the 97% of the Afghan people he’s starving to death. Big Brother’s asleep at the switch? So are the dems. So are their mindless supporters.
Mayor Jane Byrne, in response to violence in Chicago’s housing projects actually moved into one for a short while.
Sure it was a stunt, but with all of her protection, it got quite quiet there for a while (if I remember correctly).
Maybe the NY subway would be safer if legislators were required to frequent and meet there with the hoi polloi.
I remember reading that the Greek democracy had a group of 501 citizens drafted (just like a jury summons) to participate in their own governance.
I like to see if the American people might become more intelligent if they were expected to participate in their own governance in a more meaningful way.
https://headstuff.org/culture/history/cabrini-green-mayor-jane-byrne/