One Minute Outrage - Legal
Issue: Police departments in major cities across the country aren't content to arrest self-made criminals, but have decided to hit the streets and see whether they can create some more.
Impact: Time and tax dollars poured into sting operations designed to test ordinary people and create crimes that would never have been; meanwhile, who's minding the store? Hundreds of thousands of unserved felony warrants lie inactive across the country while police experiment in subways, department stores and on streetcorners.
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One Minute Outrage - Cultural
Issue: Easy access to media in the Internet age has exaggerated the drive for the proverbial "15 minutes of fame"--and what ordinary people are willing to do in order to achieve that fame spirals further out of control every day.
Impact: As what we're willing to do for attention and a little slice of fame edges further and further beyond the bounds of sanity and safety, what it takes to achieve even fleeting notoriety expands as well, creating a spiral of ever-increasing risk-taking, violence, and life-altering choices in the quest for a moment in the sun.
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