However, Tucsonans need to wake up to the fact that we are living in an overpopulated desert, and the water that is under the city is not enough to support us. Distasteful as it is to the uninformed idealists, we need to either import water or export people. A bucket of sewage. A bucket of sewage. In other words, dilution may be the solution to pollution, but not if you drink the wash water.
Police toe a shifting line when it comes to public safety versus individual rights.
When officers failed to intervene in the Jeffrey Dahmer case, they were criticized as being homophobic. When officers fail to intervene in domestic violence issues, they are called misogynistic at worst, or uninformed at best. On the other hand, there are officers who violate human rights as grotesquely as in the Abner Louima and Rodney King cases. Quite obviously police are human and their decisions imperfect, sometimes criminal. This is why it is important for individuals to challenge their authority.