The title of this entry was started by my musing about my current living situation. But mostly because a police helicoptor kept me awake until past 2 in the morning.
Sometimes, I feel like there's two Americas. Or more, I don't know, I'd have to travel more to find out. I mean, when I visit my friends, there is never a police helicoptor hovering overhead until well past 2 in the morning. It makes me feel like I live in a police state, like I'm always being watched. This is probably my own paranoia, but when I realize how often often there are police around, and how many nights that police helicoptor is out there, and just how... policed my neighborhood is, compared to how much crime is actually prevented, and I just... I don't know, its difficult to articulate, but it seems more about scaring people than anything else. I see so many drug deals go down just on my way to work, I see these sad, miserable homeless people just languishing, living in makeshift shanytowns that keep geting taken down, and the alcholoism, and the random 2 am gunshots, and the always present police helicoptors, squad cars, and sirens, and it just... its security theater and that scares me, because they're willing to harass homeless people and get mad at me when I report domestic violence or gunshots. Its scary to think that the people who are allegedly in charge of my safety, my family's safety, my neighbor's safety.... everyone's safety, just... don't give a fuck. But at least they get to fly a sweet helicoptor and put spotlights on my house and shit. Awesome, right?
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