total detachment from our government. Capitalism and consumerism pretty much occupy people's hearts, minds and souls these days, with no time to care about law enforcement unless it involves a member of our family. Even then, it's almost impossible to challenge the system.
We have divorced ourselves from holding those working for our trusted institutions and assumed they are infallible. That applies to many institutions including churches, corporations and government functions such as law enforcement. An even better example is our system of jails and prisons where once people are locked up, inmates and the treatment they receive are forgotten (again, unless it's a member of our family).
I suspect the ultimate answer is to restructure most of these institutions crucial to our peaceful existence so that citizen involvement is required, not optional or based on need. I'm thinking review boards consisting of rotating groups of citizens and professionals that have the freedom to question everything and the authority to force changes as required, but in cooperation with the affected city, county or state boards and councils.
It should be practical to charge cops, preachers and corporate executives with malpractice just the same as lawyers and doctors.
However, such a idealistic system would be almost impossible to implement in our current atmosphere of political and social division.
KY rant done......
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