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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (614)	10/16/2006 6:55:44 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Last night, running concurrently on different channels, were two different hour-long documentaries that had roughly the same theme. I alternated my viewing between them. One was about the LAPD, which aired on PBS, and the other about the NOPD, which aired on CNN. Each was portrayed during their worst moments: LAPD, during its "Batman and Robin" days, and during the period when numerous "bad shoots" resulting in unnecessary deaths were being rubber-stamped as "in policy"; and, the NOPD, during the aftermath of Katrina, when fully forty percent of the force deserted, and many of those who remained behind dishonored their badges. And in all fairness, the many more who remained behind who broke their asses trying to do the right thing by the citizens of New Orleans, as well. While watching these two documentaries play themselves out, I thought back to this thread and envisaged the hoodlums in SA trying to fill the roles of the police, and, on the screen before me, I watched the police in two different cities acting out the roles of hoodlums. But it wasn't just acting, reminding me of just how fragile the quality of order can be, and, in fact, actually is.