SomeKindOfMutant

I definitely agree that officers should wear cameras on their uniforms at all times, and that the data should be stored by a neutral third party.

Suppose a police force starts wearing cameras on their uniforms but, instead of being maintained by a neutral third party, the data is kept within the department. If there's a case brought against an officer or the department and footage that should exist somehow "can't be found," what should the repercussions be for the offending officers and the department failing to provide the footage?

If you like Sherlock, then Luther is worth checking out.

Luther is also a British detective. He's also very smart (although perhaps not quite as smart as Sherlock) and it's actually more fun to see how Luther gets through the situations in which he finds himself, not least because the circumstances seem often to be on the brink of tangling themselves well beyond his control or ability to reel them in. There's also far more moral ambiguity. While Sherlock is, more or less, amoral (that is, he stands outside of morality) Luther is constantly struggling with trying to do the right thing in a morally complex terrain.

Thanks for doing this AMA.

I don't have a question about the TPP, but I do have some advice to share about the best means by which individual [and non-wealthy] Americans can go about getting their senators' attention on this issue--or any other issue, for that matter.

An email to your senator may result in a form letter response and a phone call to the office may amount to a tally mark on an administrative assistant's notepad.

But, if you want to get their attention, a letter to the editor published in one of your state's 5-10 biggest newspapers that mentions them specifically BY NAME is the way to go.

That is the crucial thing to know--the rest of this comment is an explanation of why I know this is true.

I know this because, when I interned in the D.C. office of a senator one summer, one of the duties I shared was preparing a document that was distributed internally both online and in paper format. This document was made every day and comprised world news articles, national news, state news, and any letters to the editor in the 5-10 largest newspapers within the senator's home state that mentioned him by name. I was often the person who put that document on his desk, and it was the first thing he read every morning after arriving to the office.

I began to suspect that this was standard operating procedure because several other senators' offices share the same printer in the basement of the Russell Senate Office building, and I saw other interns doing the exact same procedures that I was involved in.

Since the internship, I've conferred with other Senate and House employees past and present and determined that most--if not all--offices use essentially the same procedure.

If you make it your mission to get every American you know to call her or his congresscritter, you'll have made a difference.

As someone who briefly worked in a senator's D.C. office, I'm going to note that the best way to get the attention of your senator or representative is to write a letter to the editor in your local or regional newspaper, calling them out by name. Calling and emailing doesn't hurt, but it's not your best strategy. Submitting a letter to the editor is.

Here's my full explanation.

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