Another Unarmed Black Teen Killed
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
That's the difference between American cops and British, and I presume, Australian, ones.
I saw an episode of Cops once, the reality/docu-drama about, well, cops, where they followed the London Metropolitan Police around for a week. The bobbies encountered a crazy drunk waving a knife and threatening to kill anyone who bothered him. Bobbie says, "Now, sir, I don't think you really mean that," and talked the drunk into putting down the knife and surrendering. Here in America, it woulda been out with the Glocks and shoot him. Several times.
British cops are not armed, except with the baton thingee. Australian cops are armed, but dont tend to have the same aggression as Americans. But then we dont have a heavily armed population.
You know who is over represented in our prison population - men - they account for 98 % of all prisoners, which lead me to believe that men as a community are not interested in bettering themselves, and are destructive as a gender and they clearly want easy fixes to improve their lot in life.
Nothing will change so long as the men think it is someone else's job to provide for them. Right or wrong that mule they keep speaking about is not coming. It is just what the reality is. Even if they are right nothing is going to change unless they step up to the plate.
In case they haven't noticed it is their lives that are being destroyed, not women's. It's their lives that are disrupted not women. Right or wrong wherever they are they are contained and that is not going to change until they expand their horizons. The world is a hard place.
True, women do live longer than men, but the men of the GOP are doing their level best to make sure that's no longer the case. If men are the problem, they'll surely take it out on the women.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
You know who is over represented in our prison population - men - they account for 98 % of all prisoners, which lead me to believe that men as a community are not interested in bettering themselves, and are destructive as a gender and they clearly want easy fixes to improve their lot in life.
Nothing will change so long as the men think it is someone else's job to provide for them. Right or wrong that mule they keep speaking about is not coming. It is just what the reality is. Even if they are right nothing is going to change unless they step up to the plate.
In case they haven't noticed it is their lives that are being destroyed, not women's. It's their lives that are disrupted not women. Right or wrong wherever they are they are contained and that is not going to change until they expand their horizons. The world is a hard place.
Nice one, Mags. Clever. I plead guilty, but I'm trying to rehabilitate myself.
But ya better watch out. Thug will be insulting you like he has Kiki and Sig and Fern. If you don't like America, maybe you'd better LEAVE it. (OH, you live in Australia-- Well, you'd better leave it FARTHER-- OH, you can't. Well, then you'd better shut up. You don't live here, so you can't possibly understand it. )
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WeWitless News update--
Latest news-- Gov. orders National Guard deployed in Ferguson. ( from the headline over on CNN.com)
Le'see here. "Militarized policing" didn't work, so the Missouri Highway Patrol took over, commanded by a black guy, with a softer approach. That didn't work out either. SO now they've called out the flat-out military.
" Well, goddammit, Bubba, we ain't shot down ANY of them "BLACK community FOLKS" (We usedta call 'em somethin' diff'rent, back in the Good Old Days.) yet fer riotin' in the streets. Just one fer walkin' in it. When we gonna? Huh? Huh?"
"Purty quick now, Cletus. Maybe we oughtta reactivate thuh Klan-- that kep' them uppity troublemakers under control fer quite a spell."
"Dam' straight, Bubbba. Thass whhut the 'Mperial Grand Dragon Wizzard sez."
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
You may think the cost of bread is higher
"Well, then , let zem eat cake..." You tell 'em, Marie. But remember, Miseur Guillotine is waiting ..
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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
and one of the reasons I think body cameras are a good idea - shit, *I* wouldn't mind one, cause it would be more efficient than having to whip out and boot up my Vivitar DVR410 when something needs documenting, and I train all my people to behave as if they were on-camera the whole time they're on duty, which is only sensible in that we have a couple of our own and you never know when someone with a cellphone or webcam is going to point it at you, so the simple solution is DON'T DO SHIT YOU DON'T WANT ON TAPE...
Missed this. Exactly right. There was a piece over on Slate.com. advocating that. They cited a town where they did it. Police use of force went down by like 2/3, and complaints went down by like 80 %.
Since Thug doesn't like when I cite anecdotal evidence, I'll have to go over there and provide the link. 'Course that'll still be "anecdotal," but it'll at least be published anecdotal, available to be checked and verified.
And I know I don't have to tell you that. Back in a bit. ( 7:12 AM CA time)
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Nobc - siding with the rule of law, not tolerating looting & violent robbery can't be painted as being " racist ", at any time. Because it isn't. Suggesting such does the opposite of unifying everyone.
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This time, some people are pissed- not because they don't get to ranch their cattle for free on Federal land, but because of routine and (at times) deadly assaults on their life and liberty.
Guns and Molotov cocktails on one side. APCs, assault weapons, helicopters and teargas on the other side. A real test case for using guns to protect your rights. We get to see who wins.
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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.
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Back with link and quotes 7:20 AM ( Composed starting at 7:20. not posted 'till 7:28)
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/08/
we_know_how_to_decrease_police_violence_like_what_we_ve_seen_after_the_michael.html
Policing the Police
Training, retraining, and yet more training are not the way to stop police brutality.
By LaDoris Hazzard Cordell ( I usually include time and date of publication, but it wasn't there on this article. But there's the link
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Third, and as Reihan Salam argues today in Slate, every single law enforcement officer should be required to wear body-worn cameras, or BWCs; and every single law enforcement agency should adopt a protocol for the operation of these cameras that strictly regulates when the cameras can be turned off by officers. Bystanders with cameras have changed policing forever. Witness the public outrage after the release of videos that depicted the beating of Marlene Pinnock and the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Police officers should have cameras, too.
BWCs promote transparency in policing, they hold officers and the public accountable for their actions, and they reduce civil litigation. The police department of Rialto, California, has 115 sworn officers. In 2009 it became the first known police department to utilize BWCs. A study that analyzed the use of BWCs in Rialto showed that use of force incidents dropped by 59 percent, and that civilian complaints about police misconduct decreased by 87.5 percent. Those numbers are staggering. The benefit to police and the public of recording police interactions clearly justifies its costs. Even the ACLU has concluded that BWCs assist in holding law enforcement more accountable to the communities that they serve.
Use of force incidents went down by 59%, not 2/3, but I did write " like 2/3". 59% is "like" 67%, at least from memory. And complaints went down by 87.5%, which is "like" 80%, also from memory. High on one, low on the other, those errors oughtta cancel out.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Nobc - siding with the rule of law, not tolerating looting & violent robbery can't be painted as being " racist ", at any time. Because it isn't. Suggesting such does the opposite of unifying everyone.
I don't see any place where I suggested that. You got a quote? Or is that one of those things "you lefties always do"?
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Quote:ANd only shot 6 ties, not 10 as FREM suggested. 'Course one of those 6 was in the top of the head, and one went in near the right eye, came out the jaw, and went in near the collarbone. And none of them were close enough to leave powder burns.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Autopsey out. Brown not shot in the back.
" Now, tell me , Dr. Quincy, what does that suggest, forensically, about the positions and actions of the police officer and the deceased at the moment of the shooting?"
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