Local sheriff’s departments share photos of new inmates on Facebook. I don’t know if other counties across the US do it, but Scott County shares arrests frequently… Jackson County not as often, but they still do it sometimes.
Of course, arrests with photos are available on law enforcement websites for every jurisdiction, but you have to actively go to each city/county’s URL to see them. Sharing on FB puts it out there on everyone’s feed and attracts a whole lot attention.
Not gonna’ lie, I struggle with how I feel about this.
First, if the arrest is of an addict, sharing the photo shames the family… not the one arrested. What good does that do, really? On the other hand, when arrests are shared, I always look to see if they are of someone I know. That’s human nature.
Is it good to have the suffering of others served to us when we’re scrolling through FB to read the things shared by friends and family? I don’t think so. But… if I see my contractor has a prior for murder — or that someone I was going to hire to do work in my home was charged with theft — then is it a good thing? Yah, probably.
There are always 2 sides.
I agree with both sides.
The world is saturated with information. Some good… but mostly bad. The media saying, “if it bleeds, it leads” is so true, isn’t it?
What’s your opinion?
Add 3-minutes every single day for 30 days.
What if we unplugged from social media and information saturation for 3 minutes today? And what if we added another 3 minutes tomorrow… and continued this for 30 days?
At the end of that 30 days, every day forward we’d be cutting out one hour and a half of mindless negativity that penetrates our brains. Even more important… every day, we could add 1.5 hours of doing something that adds joy to our lives.
Who’s with me on this? 🙂
TIL (Today I Learned): Graying is a sign of active hair growth. Gray hair is also both thicker and faster growing than pigmented hair.