I have been busy with the new job but what has really cut into my available writing time has been the part time job / business I started when I first found out my former job was ending.
That job is designing irrigation systems using a CAD program on my computer. I have just a couple folks that I am doing drawings for at the moment but between the two of them I am averaging about 5 or 6 drawings a week and each drawing takes from 2 to 6 hours depending on the size of the project, some even longer than that. So that is where the time has been squeezed out on being able to write the Daily Dose.
I have a feeling that the HPD cop that caused this issue is just one of many bad apples in that group. I did a Daily Dose in the last few months about having lunch one day in a little burger joint and a group of HPD's SWAT team was in there eating. I was at a table next to them and overheard their stories that they were sharing with each other, not that I was trying listen in they were just that loud and I couldn't help but hear them.
After they left I asked one of the ladies working in there if they ate there often and she said they did, about once a month and then she said, "They think their shit don't stink." So I have to think that her faith in the system has eroded and mine has been gone for a long time when in comes to law enforcement. I see a lot of police interactions with people in my travels and I know damn well that some of the things I see are clear violations of people's rights. Intimidation is what they rely on and having that pistol on their hip makes most of them feel like they are superior beings.
I'm not saying all cops are bad, I have run across some very good ones too. Just the number of good ones seems to me to be less than the number of bad ones in my book.