I find myself thinking lots about the term “lockdown?” Before Boston didn’t it mostly mean something done to prison inmates? So, was choosing “lockdown” partly our collective (unconscious) recognition that we’re all feeling imprisoned by violence, that despite all the protestations about not giving in to terror we can’t help but do so. It seemed people welcomed a respite from the courage that daily life now requires, a chance to do something by staying safely at home.

I like the articles and I think it is cool that someone like you was there to experience and reflect on some of it. At the same time, and this has nothing to do with your clear, low key reflections, I have to say I have a somewhat ill-defined sense of unease about the prominence this story is being given in the life of the country.

This story has all the elements of a great thriller movie from the two kids from Chechnya calmly planting the bombs, to hints of some source of radicalization, to the idea of an older brother sweeping his younger innocent brother into a vortex of evil, to a great chase scene(s) culminating in a house to house search, to his eluding the search and finally being found by accident by a possibly alert neighbor. At the same time, with all that, when put it its accurate non sensationalistic context, it seems like a small story looking desperately for a larger meaning. Eventually the story may unfold into a story of lasting import and meaning– larger terrorist connections, or even a lens into how otherwise good people can become alienated at latch onto a sort of evil that is floating out there when people’s dreams an values seem thwarted by the world (the later only gaining any large import as a lens for looking at the importance of truly welcoming immigrants and encouraging citizenship when because it is when you feel outside and alienated that you become susceptible to this kind of evil).

Until those connections are made and the context clearly established, why is this story so big? In a city with shootings every night, why is no one asking if closing the entire city wasn’t a bit of overreach? Should we do this with all shootings where officers engage in a chase. Are we going to start shutting down neighborhoods to chase the shooters that too regularly terrorize them, but where we usually say, “Damn I lost him” and go home leaving him to shoot another day?

Does this really have more import then the questions in the same news cycle about our mental health system raised by the ricin incident– questions raised already by Newtown and too many other shootings? Is this really a bigger story than the explosion in Texas which killed so many more and may have been so much more avoidable if the company had been more responsible in accessing the actual risk and OSHA had money to do the inspections needed?

And while I am ranting, if shutting down the entire City with the corresponding estimated loss of millions in the local economy was good in this case, I think it might be even more effective in a different context. Why don’t we shut down every city and town in the US until Congress agrees to a budget solution? It might just work but we’ll never try it because it somehow seems appropriate in the name of a public safety hunt for one 19 year old wounded kid but seems outlandish when applied to a problem that already is devastating lives throughout the country and indirectly caused a tool in avoidable suicides and trauma that will go largely unreported and unacknowledged.

And I haven’t even gotten to the comparison with the problems on the world stage, or global warming.

There is something wrong here.

End of rant.

The work you are doing to make the world aware of the water challenges and U.S. energy opportunties has a lot more import and a lot less attention…..

One recent interesting study is the City of Chicago 2011 Murder Analysis. https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/News/Statistical%20Reports/Murder%20Reports/MA11.pdf

In the study it also concludes that the murder rate, high in the last years is nothing compared to what it was in 1991 at 928 murders. But there is something more telling in the data. Today far more murder victims are found outdoors than indoors compared to 1990′s figures. In 1991 roughly as many murders took place in residences as they did in public ways. Around 2000 that balance shifted and grew where by 2011 6 times as many murders took place in public ways than in residences.
And murder cases that have been solved by the Chicago police department have steadily gone down from 619 cases out of 928 cases cleared in 1991 to 128 out of 433 cases in 2011. The statistics also show that gang related murders have increased while other categories have remained the same or gone down slightly.

I’m no sociologists but it appears to suggest that violence by those who are disenfranchised or see themselves as such has developed into a more public display. An increase in uninhibited display of violence as opposed to a more personal violent act. If that’s the case, the total murder rate may be down but we should not take to much comfort in feeling safer because of that statistic, if the violence is a more public display.

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