Again, indictments have a 99%+ rate of coming back with a true bill, that is unless you are a cop, then it drops. You can't with any sort of straight face say that there is nothing wrong there. You also can't say with a straight face that Wilson's indictment was anything but normal. Nor can you say, unless you are completely ignorant on how indictments work, that a no indictment means wilson was found not guilty (and just to preempt the mischaracterizing of my position, it doesn't prove wilson was guilty either). Your line about not appeasing an angry mob is quite funny as that appears to be the reason why the prosecutor decided to even being an indictment charge in the first place.
So no, the justice system is not operating properly and this case was just another example of blind justice not really being blind.
While you worry about your own neighborhood getting torched or other neighborhoods, or while you concern yourself with people unlawfully destroying other people's property I'm am concerned about a justice system that isn't what it claims to be, blind and impartial. Why? Because I'm not dumb enough to not see what will happen if this injustice continues and it won't be black people you will have to be worried about, it will be white people, poor people, and a whole ton of other people who have been wronged because it's not only a race issue, that's simply only a component of it. What you and other conservative media heads keep thinking is an isolated incident that shouldn't be used as any sort of statement fail to see that ferguson is only a small piece of a much larger issue, an issue you apparently fail or are unwilling to acknowledge.
So that's where I'm coming from and while I value where you are coming from and I think it's noble, it's addressing a symptom not the root cause of the issue, which is what my concern is.
There is a time and place to discuss the statistics of the judicial system, but it is not within the context of this Ferguson situation, it just is not. It is too tainted.
To start off, a lot of people have special advantages within the field they work in, so the fact that statistics for police officers is different, does not surprise me. I've also been on a jury of a trial, what are you supposed to do? You do your best to treat the case based only on the evidence and circumstances that belong to that one situation. When making a decision on a case, we don't consult the statistical data based on demographics of the parties involved and swing the verdict so the stats become more alike with each other.
I'm going to divert for a moment. Some time ago I was listening to a guy's take on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The Palestinians elected an extremist group to lead them. They elected an extremist group because the Israelis did not work with prior moderate leadership. If the Israelis want a moderate leadership leading the Palestinian people, they have to reward them. The moderates have to be able to turn around and show the people they achieved progress, in order to maintain leadership. Israelis did not reward the moderates, so the people chose the extremists.
The violent rioters in Ferguson are extremists. Even Al Sharpton is an extremist. The media has created him as the leader of this movement in Ferguson, and many are following (like the statement put out by the Congressional Black Caucus, or the display by the StL Rams players Sunday). What these people, these groups are saying and doing, is a harsh insult to moderate whites.
The path towards a better future, in my opinion, we all have to reward what we want more of. Blacks must reward moderate whites, not insult them, nor reward extremist blacks. And whites must find ways to reward moderate blacks.
I've said some number of posts ago, the choice we have in Ferguson is a decision between supporting (1) a judicial system that had some flaws, or (2) violent rioters led by deceit and manipulation. The decision reached in the end I believe was the correct decision. I choose to reward the imperfect judicial system over the extremists.
How do I reward moderates trying to improve the systems? I honestly don't know. Maybe I need to look into it. Supporting destruction of Darren Wilson through every possible avenue is not the way to do it, that I am positive of. Hell, I was outraged at the O.J. civil suit verdict, it boggles my mind how a person found not guilty could still wind up in financial ruin over the incident.