@petergleick

Pretty much, if it happened in the overreaction to 9/11, it was probably a mistake. From the patriot act, to dhs, to the color of ruby as shoelaces.

We have to, as a culture, reckon with how little accountability we ask of our law enforcement agencies. We, the citizens without guns or authority, hold ourselves to higher standards of wisdom than we culturally expect from agents.

But we are changing.

@petergleick

Agreed.

Also, let’s slash that budget. Isn’t it up for congress approval again this month? Cut, cut, cut.

And then, it’s time to put the useless department of homeland security out to pasture. Let us actually take a long, hard look at how we incentivize our law enforcement agencies to actually work for us, and that’s done by curtailing the powers they’ve been abusing.