According to some reviews, (click here) the film illustrates a police department stretched to it's limit with poor relationships with the people of Flint. I think I will trust others to speak to the film before I have a chance to see it.
To me, the water crisis is still yet another way Flint has learned it has no value to those that should be putting citizens first. Lesson after lesson has caused fractions between the community and authorities. Where has society gone wrong? Look at Flint, Michigan and realize the extent no one really cared.
The circumstances Flint has faced with deaths and poisoning was recognized by a really decent person, Rachel Maddow. She didn't recognize the crisis in Flint because it was going to be an award winning expose on Governor Snyder's emergency manger priorities; she did it out of human decency.
A Flint resident shows his scars from a recent shooting. The police found him asleep in his car, high on painkillers. July, 2016.So, while the latest buzz is about a film on Flint's police and people; the crisis is still more important then ever. Will the people of Flint ever feel like they are part of the USA?
Rachel Maddow's efforts to bring attention to the Flint water crisis have earned her an Emmy. (click here)
February 27, 2018By Kay LeFond
...Most of the data comes from the first half of 2016, (click here) just after the crisis became national news. Testing has slowed down significantly since then, but it’s still going: more than 350 samples have been tested this year so far.
When you remember that every data point represents somebody sending off a sample bottle of their water and waiting to hear back about whether or not it was safe, it really hammers home what the city went through.
When you look at the full range of measurements (top panel of the graphic), it's hard not to notice the sheer ridiculous amount of lead in some of the samples. Dozens have measured more than 1,000 parts per billion (ppb) - the highest was almost 23,000, from a sample taken in April of 2016. Those numbers are outliers: less than one percent of all the samples collected, but they're still shocking. While there’s no safe level of lead, the federal standard is just 15 parts per billion.
That said, most of the measurements (more than 90%) taken during this time period were less than 45 parts per billion, so the bottom panel of the graphic zooms in on that range to show more individual points and the overall progression of water quality.
From a regulatory standpoint, the water quality of a city is defined by its 90th percentile; that’s the lead level that 90% of samples test below for a given time period. The samples used to calculate this number, called "Tier 1" samples, come from the highest risk homes....
