First Posted: 3/12/2015
Two editorials on the same day. What is the purpose of the media’s fixation on Ferguson?
The coverage creates more questions than answers. Ferguson is 29.3 percent white, shouldn’t police statistics reflect this?
According to the editorials black citizens are more likely than whites to get nuisance tickets for such things as jaywalking. OK, but isn’t the law still being broken?
This leads into the question why are the police there to see such activity? Are there not sections of a community receiving more police attention than others? Isn’t there more crime, violence, or victims calling 911 for help coming from certain areas than others? And doesn’t that draw police into an area to see these “nuisance crimes.”
Supposedly much of the misconduct stems from the police being in the business of raising revenue. Gee, how shocking. Wasn’t Lima, not too long ago, accused of that with traffic cameras?
Even Eric Holder’s department has been known to confiscate property of citizens without due process.
A teenager of questionable character dies and citizens use it as an excuse to burn their community. Meanwhile a little 12-year-old boy playing in a park with a toy gun is killed, Clevelanders react in a commendable manner and the media yawn.
The sad story in Cleveland should be the hood ornament for the issue, yet the media seem to be reporting and thus supporting another agenda.
