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I also found out that the United Nations has a task force for the Police Departments in the United States for ” Crimes against Humanity”. Please report to the United Nations if you have a problem!!!! Tell everyone.Your not supposed to know!

Also , I found out that citizen revue boards across the country were voted down. Why? Because you didn’t know about it! You were never given the chance to know.

The police ain’t afraid of being tracked down. They are afraid of being found out for their dirty deeds. I also found out that( some) police are hired because they did something illegal. That way they won’t rat out their buddies…This is called the Blue Wall…

RateMyCop.com is what the citizens of the United Stated need. There is so much police abuse, so much falsifying of police documents, so much lying under oath, so much ” BLUE WALL”. And I want to say one more thing to the corrupt police…just because you cover up for a buddy ” BLUE WALL”, DON’T MEAN YOU ARE INNOCENT! Let me say this another way…Whey you cover up for a Bud ..” Blue Wall” your as guilty as the person you are covering up for and deserve to go to prison. You violated the Citizen’s of the United States trust.

Dear Government, the citizens of the United States are tired of abusive, sadistic police. They no longer protect and serve. There are self serving and abusive. I’m so glad that you can see how everyone feels. Oh sure, you will put a spin on this site. But there will be a time whey the INTERNET will be flooded with this type of sites. This is a HUGE symptom of YOU not serving the people! It’s become a disease. All you hear about is police corruption. Isn’t it funny how so much of it is kept secret. And yet nothing happens to these guys. Isn’t that called organized crime. You bet it is. Everyone please get familiar with (1) Citizen review boards…(2)(UNITED NATIONS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY)…(3)RICO LAW…..WHO ACTUALLY UPHOLDS THE LAW..IT SURE ISN’T THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. The guys that went after my insurance police got away with over 1 million dollars, even after there were many confessions. Yours so truly Alphy

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Sure it makes for great press to write about this so-called “groundswell” of dynamic feedback but in reality I can’t see how this is anything other than naivety and bad manners becoming socially acceptable.

My take on the recent example relating to the Zuckerberg interview was that the discussion was great but obviously not techie enough to keep the attack-nerds at bay. I’m sure if anybody cared to survey, that there were equal numbers that thought it was interesting and well run (I did).

Some have commented that this feedback is only provided under the cloak of anonymity, so let’s see if these people behave the same if a web cam is focused on everyone whilst they’re providing feedback.

This is no groundswell, it’s groundswill.

Or something like Kiva.org, which is taking an online community approach to lending that is outside the area of traditional banking.

Good morning

In the UK we can send a few examples

Patient Opinion – where patients rate their medical care ( from our state funded National Health Service )

http://www.patientopinion.org.uk/

It was founded by a Yorkshire based General Practitioner, Paul Hodgkin in about 2005.

Fixmystreet

This is where you can tell your local public authority, we sometimes call them councils, about anything in your area

http://www.fixmystreet.com/

Theyworkforyou

This reminds people that their democratic representative is accountable to them. It allows us people to correspond with our local, natioonal or European representative

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

All of the above were done by talented, committed people. If you in America wished to use them, I think they are all pretty open source.

Politicians over here are beginning to wake up. We have a Minister in London. Tom Watson who gets this. He spoke to a conference last week, and was mentioned by this civil servant blog

http://whitehallwebby.wordpress.com/

The same blog was covered by the Economist magazine last month in an article calld the electronic bureaucrat

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10638002

You should get yourself over to London to do some Forrester research work, and see what is happening across the pond. There is good action.