02-26-2011, 06:46 PM
(02-26-2011, 08:24 AM)Lady Cop Wrote: a little editorializing...
although we are caught up in this case for whatever reasons we have, i was thinking this morning that much of the public there is not. they have moved on from these crimes. not everyone is as obsessed as we.
i believe much of the populace has chalked this up to more thug/gang activity, and who cares, that doesn't touch OUR lives *yawn*. let them all kill each other off. i've seen this attitude prevail in many places, from Boston to Jacksonville. they aren't going to come to my house, i'm not a druggie. and i hate to say it, they are right.
this case has more than the usual drama. attractive victims. an unusual cast of characters. and of course the bizarre manner of their deaths. but the truth is, little kids die in drive-by shootings all the time in the ghetto, where is the huge thread?
just musing on a saturday morning.
I don't usually get into crime threads precisely for this reason - they're a dime a dozen, unfortunately. Even the more sensational ones, aren't that unusual. When I lived in LA & Long Beach, drive by shootings were practically a daily event. Lots of little kids, playing in their yards, taken out in the hail of bullets. It becomes hard to care because there is SO MUCH of it. Other than the manner of killing, it's Lisa that makes this case compelling for me.