MistyWaters
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Why can't we create a balanced system? As a society, although we have a long way to go, we are getting better at recognizing and assisting with mental illness.
JMO I don’t think police watching over us will ever prove to be a workable solution in a democratic society and we surely don’t want them to only shoot first and ask questions later. Too often it’s easy for all of us to think we’ve done our duty, our hands are washed if it, not our problem anymore, let the police handle it. If there’s ever a step forward it would be for everyone to pay closer attention to what’s going on with the people who are in our lives IMO. People are becoming more distant to each other than ever before, often neighbours don’t know who it is who lives beside them.
I just can’t believe other than the few incidents that were reported in the media this guy was squeaky clean 100% the rest of the time in the recent past. The one person we haven’t heard from is the common law spouse who was in the centre of his life. How come nobody pulled her aside out of concern for either her or maybe even his well-being? If they did we don’t know. We can’t erase this disaster but goodness sakes, if people close to him didn’t see any indication of this coming why do we expect that police could’ve known?
But regardless, this story is like a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle and we have hardly any of the pieces so we don’t have any idea what it will look like when it’s finished. At the end of the day there will still be missing pieces because the perpetrator isn’t alive to give us the full picture.
Anger and blame is a natural part of the grieving process and I’m glad the media is allowing the relatives of the deceased to be heard because it’s healthy for them to be allowed to speak out.....although I also think of Const Stevenson’s family amidst the heavy criticism of the police, how tough it must be on them.
JMO