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30th May 2022 23:17
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Unwinding of The Social Contract
News Reports: Unwinding of The Social Contract
Place to put news and related information that indicates that social fraying has become so prevalent that even mainstream media is reporting it more.
Washington police say drivers aren’t stopping for them
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers - and other law enforcement agencies also say this is becoming a common occurrence.
The Northwest News Network reports that from January 1 to May 17 of this year, the agency logged 934 failure-to-yield incidents. While the patrol didn’t track this in the past, veteran troopers say there’s been a dramatic uptick in drivers fleeing traffic stops.
“Something’s changed. People are not stopping right now,” said Sgt. Darren Wright, a WSP spokesperson with 31 years on the job. “It’s happening three to five times a shift on some nights and then a couple times a week on day shift.”
Local police departments are also seeing this behavior. The Puyallup Police Department logged 148 instances of drivers fleeing from officers from July 26, 2021 to May 18, 2022.
Asked if that represents a significant increase, Chief Scott Engle wrote in an email, “I could 1,000,000% say this is completely absolutely emphatically totally unusual.”
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4th June 2022 18:15
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Re: Unwinding of The Social Contract
While a number of the highway killings are presumably targeted individuals. What if a new type of serial killer or group bent on creating chaos is immerging, hiding in the vastness of the interstate highway system? Would government suppress evidence of such given the vital economic role of the system?
Though the news doesn't address Washington State specifically, there has clearly been an increase of this type of violence here.
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Highway shootings in one state nearly tripled in 2 years
(Various clipping from NBC News article)
In California, reports of shootings more than doubled in the last three years, jumping from 210 in 2019 to nearly 500 in the first 11 months of 2021. Hundreds of people were injured, according to highway patrol data obtained through a public records request. Fifty died.
In Michigan, where authorities started tracking the data only last year after they noticed an uptick, there were 67 in Detroit and its suburbs, a state police spokesman said.
And in Illinois, where there’s been such a surge in expressway shootings that the governor pleaded for them “to stop,” authorities launched a well-publicized response announcing arrests and introducing efforts to blunt the violence. Included were a public dashboard mapping every expressway shooting in the state since 2019 and a law named after Tamara Clayton, 55, a mail handler who was gunned down on her way to work three years ago. Her killing remains unsolved. The law called for installing high-definition license plate readers in dozens of spots on Chicago-area expressways.
While freeway violence isn’t new, Stonebraker said, the state had never before had that kind of jump. In a shooting two weeks before Morris' — on a section of freeway a few miles away — 23-month-old Jasper Wu was killed while he slept in his car seat. In February, Bay Area basketball legend Gene Ransom was killed on the same highway, Interstate 880.
There is even a dashboard for Illinois:
IL Reported Expressway Shootings (2019-Current Year)
The Times They Are A Changin - Bob Dylan
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5th June 2022 16:43
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5th June 2022 17:10
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