"Would a petition help? I feel so damn helpless..."
Write/call your local radio talk show hosts, your local newspaper (250 words or less), email your congressmen (ask for a federal probe of EVERYTHING about Durham), email the white house (federal probe?), then write, call, and email again,
and then once more.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
"Would a petition help? I feel so damn helpless..."
And get others to sign your letters, joint emails, etc. or even better, to send their own.