Michael Crabb
Member since Dec 3, 2016
Recent Comments
Re: “EPD Identifies Officers Involved in Downtown Shooting”
40 shots fired?
I get it...Once they kill an innocent bystander, or a kid at home watching TV, maybe they'll stop this cowboy bullshit?
Eureka needs a new police chief, updated firearm policies, and better psychological screening to identify terrified officers unsuitable to "protect and serve".
Re: “Sometimes Voters Just Sit a Race Out”
No Kim, this header should read:
"THE VAST MAJORITY OF POTENTIAL VOTERS ALWAYS SIT IT OUT".
Like obedient cogs dutifully protecting the multi-billion dollar stream of election ad-revenue, you will not find one mainstream "journalist" with the courage to question the legitimacy of U.S. elections that have the lowest turnout in the industrialized world.
Instead, readers are consistently mislead by countless articles like this one, always calculating election turnout by the number of registered voters and not the overwhelming majority of "POTENTIAL VOTERS", IE, the 80% that did not vote in the presidential primaries!
Reporting under-votes by the minority of participants is an irrelevant distraction.
Yes, 72% of registered voters cast their ballots last November, however, 70% of potential voters have been abstaining in local and national elections since the early 1970's!
Even a 10 year old can quickly look up voting age populations to compare to their community's voter turn-out.
Would reporting the greater reality and alerting the public help address this catastrophe?
Of course, but finding "journalism" that reports in the public interest requires a subscription to distant publications and media like "Democracy Now".
Re: “44”
From this excellent report it's clear that law enforcement has numerous procedure options regarding firearms, car pursuits, populated areas, and firing at moving vehicles, undoubtedly developed after years of needless fatalities.
What will it take for Eureka's officers to follow them?
Bullets travel far.