Cops

I mostly try to be reasonable, pleasant and sociable but alongside my best self there is a dark side which will not gladly suffer any fool.
By strange coincidence, the last couple of weeks I have come close-ish to three incidents involving the police. One was an assault on one of the residents at my workplace, then there was an armed hold up in the shops near work (my local shops throughout childhood and barely changed)
Then today there was a shooting a few blocks away.


And here's the rant:
These events get people so worked up and it drives me to distraction. People with the most tenuous links to these things find it almost obligatory to insert themselves into the story.
I was at the docs today, three blocks from the shooting but the receptionist managed to be involved in the story because her own mother was afraid to answer the door to her.
One colleague of mine couldn't sleep until 2am simply because a police helicopter flew over work 12 hours earlier.
The on-site child care was placed in lock down because cops were seen on the street.
Sometimes I wanna shake people. The planet is dying and children are homeless and there is hysteria over a long gone gunman who is probably not interested in the average person.

What gets on your tits?