we are all complicit

 

Under a news story about the Long Island serial killer suspect arrested last week, a reader in Bee Cave, Texas wrote:

Left unsaid in all of this is the role that Suffolk County voters played in this tragedy - they elected Mr. Spota to four terms as the DA, and it was Mr. Spota who covered up for an abusive and incompetent Police Chief, Mr. Burke.

Does anyone think that this was an isolated incident with Mr. Spota, that he wasn't a corrupting influence on policing in Suffolk County for years?  And why didn't anyone notice?

It isn't just Suffolk County voters (and residents) - when local voters don't pay close attention to local government, this is the kind of thing that happens.  Local government gets away with "murder" and real murderers get away.

We are all complicit when we don't pay close attention to what our elected officials are doing.

Thomas Spota

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