The appropriate punishment would be a paid suspension while the barrista’s union described all critics as monsters and criminals, then a termination followed swiftly by reinstatement and back pay ordered by the arbitrator required by union contract. https://t.co/BpARXAkJcP
this is my father and i’d like to say that he is absolutely a pig and i’d like to thank the brave men and women from starbucks for their service https://t.co/e7NhPMacHM
Well, quite! I think we should ask ourselves how it can be that past convictions based on evidence given in court by police officers are not immediately rexamined and (in all but exceptional cases) overturned, when those officers are found to have been dishonest.
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In "sometimes the term 'pig' isn't nearly derisive enough" news, this piece of shit effectively dispels the notion that placing pigs in public schools makes children safer. The shitball is on paid leave, cuz let's not rush to judgment here! The body slamming may well have been an entirely reasonable use of force.
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Lately I've noticed that the state highway patrol has been flying helicopters spaced every several miles over the freeway. I scrupulously obey traffic laws but still...I wonder about the return on investment in maintaining that many aircraft. Could they possibly catch enough violators to pay for all that? It's like that movie, Blue Thunder...
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tbf I wouldn't judge the wisdom of using helicopters to monitor speeding on the highway on the basis of how much money you get back in fines. I think the fact that the police departments/municipal governments get to keep fines from traffic tickets is, in fact, a very bad thing that creates perverse incentives for speed traps and approaches to traffic that prefer to catch people only AFTER they're driving in an unsafe manner, as well as preferring to go after citizens who are less likely to get a lawyer to prevent them from paying the fine (even if they pay more to the lawyer than the fine because they're trying to avoid other consequences, the municipality/police department doesn't get that money, so from their perspective it's a loss), etc.
Their goal should be safety, not using traffic tickets to generate revenue.
So, maybe the helicopters don't generate much ticket revenue. But by contrast to cops waiting in the bushes near speed traps, they probably lower traffic speeds more significantly and thus may prevent car crashes. Car crashes cost the community a lot, in terms of loss of life, medical bills, auto and infrastructure repair, etc. If you don't catch many violators, but you've reduced violations, you're getting value.
I don't know whether the return on investment is worth it. It probably isn't. But I don't think the police should be concerned about whether they're making a profit...
Oh, it's way worse than the headline. The suspension was overturned because superiors ignored it until after the six-month deadline and disposed of evidence.
A group tested Amazon's facial-recognition software on Denver City Council members. Nine of them were falsely identified as sex offenders, and in some cases the system was 92% confident they were a match https://t.co/PHBK2gWjUV@JessicaDenver7pic.twitter.com/cpbMOax5An
Here's a bit of Jim Crow in the American Northwest, courtesy of the pigs in the West Linn, Oregon police department.
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A neat encapsulation of how censorship can get expensive: The $50,000 settlement breaks down to $1,800 the state agreed to pay the plaintiff for every minute they wrongly detained himhttps://t.co/a31sflvwtxpic.twitter.com/xecaY80Rv0
I was talking to a friend in Italy and on a lark I started googling “Italian jokes”. The returns were as bigoted as you can imagine so I asked him “what sort of jokes are generally funny to Italians?” And he replied, “The police, because they are so corrupt. Not as bad as American police but still corrupt.”
I thought his reply was kind of interesting.
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When I was about 5 years old my father had a stroke while shouting at me one evening. I had shit myself as sometimes children do. It was just me and my sister who was three years older than me and our dad.
He was in the bathroom shouting when he fell over, his head struck and broke the toilet seat.
We called 911. The cops came and said dad was drunk and left.
We called again, eventually paramedics came hours later. Maybe not though, time is weird when you are a kid. It seemed like forever.
In today's criminal justice news, cops in Indianapolis IN summarily execute an unarmed black man for sport – then share a laugh over his dead body – all while his phone is livestreaming the execution and jokes to Facebook Live
No doubt there is serious need to police reform, including ending the vile Drug War, but this may be an important lesson to leave the High Horse in the barn and the shiny armor of Self-Importance in the footlocker until one discovers what transpired.