Watching the machine manufacture consent for surveillance has been truly surreal

I am confused as to what Dahl imagines surveillance cameras could have done, as there were police officers standing roughly four paces from the shooters at Bite of Seattle. How could a camera have stopped what armed police officers standing feet away could not?

Ill say it every time this comes up:

adding cameras and tracking and survelliance is what weak, lazy, bought-off-and-paid-for leaders do, to trade liberty and privacy for additional arrests

kicking the can down the road, spending money that could have gone towards any number of positive things, like supplies for kids in schools, or even just additional human employees to help the existing ones who claim they need cameras everywhere to do their job

real leaders push plans that address the problems that lead to crime in the first place

like massive income inequality

but people don't want to hear "your system sucks and needs fundamental change," for a myriad of reasons

and so here we are. a massive number of disorganized workers, argung and seething at each other over belief systems, ancestry, skin color, gender expression, where exactly on the planet you popped out of your mom

treating each other less than human

less than we would demand to be treated and repected

while, from their mansions and yachts and private planes, a tiny number of people pit us against each other so well, a majority of us can't even decide what someone truly competent and representative of our collective needs looks like

I was literally reading a KOMO interview with ex-police chief Barnes about the shooting and Wilson before reading this. KOMO allowed him to assert that Mayor Wilson never told him why she wanted his resignation.

Fucking crickets about his extraordinary tax debt and that he was actually living in Illinois while cosplaying as the Seattle Police Chief.

They're complicit.

My question is, how is the head of the cop union getting more air time than the actual mayor, on every network?

Sick of seeing that guy's smarmy face.

The outlets you’re referring to are owned by Sinclair

Maybe stop watching those news channels and just get your local news from your echo chamber safe space like the rest of us.