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A Tragic Weekend in Oakland

A commentator below asks for a thread on the shooting of four Oakland Police officers by a parolee over the weekend.

Undoubtedly views will vary. "How outraged would we be," someone will ask in the comments, "if the police had killed three parolees this weekend?" "Why is it that we suddenly care" they will ask, "when an officer dies?"

Those kinds of questions miss the the point. Four public servants left their homes fully expecting to return at the end of the day, and they did not. Even ranting credence anger and frustration over injustices and corruption in our law enforcement system, this is still a tragedy. My thoughts and condolences go to to the people who had their friends, husbands, and fathers taken from them last weekend.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).