The officers in these situations are (in the US) supervised by elected officials: the sheriff, DAs, and mayors.
The next time they are running for re-election, take out an ad with scenes from the relevant videos, with words to the effect that, if you vote for this individual, you are talking responsibility for their actions.
Sure, it'll be a bit expensive, but anyone can do it.
We aren't powerless, we aren't helpless victims. If we're really upset by their actions, we shouldn't act like we are helpless.
You just said that voting can change things. Wouldn't it logically follow that ranting on a public forum, which people can read and be inspired to vote by, is very useful?
Voting can change things (and publicly embarrassing elected officials works, too), but I doubt any of the people reading these comments live in the voting districts of the officials involved in the cases in the article. Even if they are, I doubt they're more than a tiny minority. And even in that case, well, preaching to the choir and all that.
Even ranting on a forum local to those areas is unlikely to do anything useful---when was the last time your mind was changed by an editorial, much less a comment down in the crazy-text.
The power is in the votes of the legendary John Q. Public, who has either never heard this story or caught 30 seconds of it as a sad tragedy that could not be prevented. The effect we need is to force them to stand up and say, "I'm ok with this kind of collateral damage." Or not.
>Voting can change things (and publicly embarrassing elected officials works, too), but I doubt any of the people reading these comments live in the voting districts of the officials involved in the cases in the article.
You seem determined to believe things without evidence.
The next time they are running for re-election, take out an ad with scenes from the relevant videos, with words to the effect that, if you vote for this individual, you are talking responsibility for their actions.
Sure, it'll be a bit expensive, but anyone can do it.
We aren't powerless, we aren't helpless victims. If we're really upset by their actions, we shouldn't act like we are helpless.
Ranting on an internet forum is useless.