The reason government and its agents fail to disclose the Public Duty Doctrine in more public ways is, they don't trust the public with this information. They are afraid our country will turn into the wild west. I thought it was the wild west. Just watch the news. Agents of power have lost trust in us?
When was the last time your government asked you to vote on issues such as abortion, gay marriage, War(s), Nafta ? Nuclear power? Where's the love?
The police and district attorneys find witness testimony iffy. Witnesses lie or get it wrong. Ergo: forensics or, like the FBI, behavioral science sections.
Cameras are mounted everywhere you go: banks, convenience stores, street corners, outer space, monitoring the baby sitter, camera phones catching the riske, on and on and on.....
Employment: urine and psychological testing, criminal and financial background.
Gated Communities: private police, security dogs, on and on and on.
Dating: Some women are checking the new guys out -- criminal/financial background, Face Book, just to name a few.
Television programming is interesting. The weekly series "House" simply makes a doctor and his staff into something close to criminal investigators. House, M.D. makes no bones about patients lying. We, as viewers, start to sympathize with the doctor's plight. The show "Mental" illustrates that there are ways to trick victims and criminals into telling the truth. "Lie To Me" involves a behavioral science company which is called in to verify the veracity of whoever for a fee.
Politically speaking, our country is terribly divided; it's approaching the level of dividedness similar to the period before the Civil War. But, more importantly, our people are divided, shattered like a broken mirror. It's hard to get a clear picture of who we are, who we want to be, when the old saying, "Divided We Fall" is so clearly evident.
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