By: Safety Guy

Safety Guy
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:54:07 +0000

Excellent piece Ms. Ruibal. You touch on multiple issues but do not assign blame. Societal problems are not necessarily simple.

I recently read “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander and found it compelling. I next read “On the Run” by Alice Goffman. I highly recommend both of these books for beginning to understand some of the issues.

Next on my list is “The War on Cops” by Heather MacDonald, though there are other (unrelated) books I need to finish first because they are in my possession.

Issues of societal violence are many and need to be discussed in depth. Understanding needs to emphasized before blame. Factual information needs to be gathered. Quick information needs to be properly vetted. Social and technological changes are influencing one another and making things more difficult in my opinion.

This quote probably belies my own bias towards sociology: “Things are not as they seem.” -Peter Berger.

That being said, branching out to history, social psychology, police science and even kinesiology should be considered. I would argue that depending on one’s experiences, very little may be as it seems.

Karl Spaulding