Greed and corruption has infected the top levels. Lawyers fees and political contributions are sending America downwards, a lot of the credit goes to near 3rd world public education and its national union desires. Health care is amongst the financial carrots and sticks.

A congruence of failures usually leads to the occurring disaster.

“…This was a mental health situation all the way around. Imo, some people in law enforcement develop psychotic aggression as a result of…probably PTSD. When people with tendencies toward psychotic aggression perceive that they are being disrespected they experience it as an attack. People with mental illness tend to be perceived as being disrespectful. It’s dangerous for people with mental illness to be around people who have tendencies toward psychotic aggression. I have a mental illness and have been perceived as annoying to law enforcement and was punished for it by them falsifying the report to make it look like I provoked the assault which occurred when I called 911 for them to protect me. They laughed at me…mocked me…didn’t believe anything I said and sided with my attacker. If I were ever in the future to be in need of emergency assistance I would probably request paramedics, because they are more empathetic than law enforcement and so safer for a mentally ill person. Law enforcement agencies should be educating officers of the fact that mentally ill people have symptoms which cause them to be inattentive, confused, agitated, frightened, etc. and how to not perceive this as an attack. Or they should have specially trained officers that they can call in when there are calls involving mentally ill people. Also, there needs to be mental health assessment and care for patrol officers. Probably a good portion of patrol officers would benefit from anti-psychotic medication, because it reduces aggression. However, if they were diagnosed as being in need of anti-psychotic medication they would probably be relieved from patrol duty, but that is probably what should happen. There is too much stress in law enforcement and the mind can only tolerate so much. People in law enforcement develop psychosis from PTSD and this is why they respond as if attacked when they feel disrespected. This is my opinion, anyway…” -News Commenter

Sadistic Psychopaths, probably dont have a real good social or fulfilling life. Murder and pain just isnt all that acceptable in the American world now.

As the city has seen in the last 19 months, murder is expensive, time consuming, world newsworthy, and oh so so very hard to get away with, even if we build a Disneyland for the less fortunate.

My comments were in reply to the overwhelming question posed by citizen’s and the media in this tragedy; “Why?”

My comments were an explanation, not an excuse. There is no excuse. You appear to be the only one that needed this point explained to you.

That’s a very good point. We are living through a media transition as a culture whose final outcome is still being written, and even with so many other options now, TV and/or visual media still seems to be the most dominant influence. We are a visual society.

An example of how TV Media is still such a dominant force in our culture comes from, of all people, Ozzy Osbourne. Long after the cancellation of his reality show, he said he is still mobbed by fans of that show. What he found amazing was these adoring fans knew nothing about him being in Black Sabbath, never heard of Black Sabbath, and knew nothing about his solo career and multi-platinum selling records. He said though he felt complimented, and a little offended also, he said it wasn’t until that moment that he fully realized the immense power of television. An FFFF cable show, or local access cable show would be a good thing maybe?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0216-mailbag-dorner-police-20130216,0,5596863.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29