Red Mosquito

Bi_3 wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Peeps wrote:and yet some cops have the patience of an angel

We will never have a shortage of these people. Very classy of the cops to blur her face and not make her name public.

I would have splattered her name everywhere

Given the intersectionality of the person in the car that might backfire, but again, IMHO no one should have their life ruined for 30 seconds of non-violent/threatening language.

wease wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Peeps wrote:and yet some cops have the patience of an angel

We will never have a shortage of these people. Very classy of the cops to blur her face and not make her name public.

I would have splattered her name everywhere

Given the intersectionality of the person in the car that might backfire, but again, IMHO no one should have their life ruined for 30 seconds of non-violent/threatening language.

Why not? They’d do whatever they can to ruin the other person’s life.

wease wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Peeps wrote:and yet some cops have the patience of an angel

We will never have a shortage of these people. Very classy of the cops to blur her face and not make her name public.

I would have splattered her name everywhere

Given the intersectionality of the person in the car that might backfire, but again, IMHO no one should have their life ruined for 30 seconds of non-violent/threatening language.

Why not? They’d do whatever they can to ruin the other person’s life.

Bi_3 wrote:

wease wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Peeps wrote:and yet some cops have the patience of an angel

We will never have a shortage of these people. Very classy of the cops to blur her face and not make her name public.

I would have splattered her name everywhere

Given the intersectionality of the person in the car that might backfire, but again, IMHO no one should have their life ruined for 30 seconds of non-violent/threatening language.

Why not? They’d do whatever they can to ruin the other person’s life.

Who is 'they'? The BIPOC lady in the car? The cops? Anti-racist doxxers?

wease wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Bammer wrote:

Peeps wrote:and yet some cops have the patience of an angel

We will never have a shortage of these people. Very classy of the cops to blur her face and not make her name public.

I would have splattered her name everywhere

Given the intersectionality of the person in the car that might backfire, but again, IMHO no one should have their life ruined for 30 seconds of non-violent/threatening language.

Why not? They’d do whatever they can to ruin the other person’s life.

Orpheus wrote:Sure can't wait for folks on here to either 1) act like that isn't happening, or 2) present it as a good thing.

simple schoolboy wrote:

Orpheus wrote:Sure can't wait for folks on here to either 1) act like that isn't happening, or 2) present it as a good thing.

Based on crime rates*, one should expect some discrepancy here, but something like an order of magnitude less.

It'd be great if cops could be trusted to not wildly abuse pretextual stops. When cops consistently do shit like this, they get federal consent decrees and pretty soon the only thing they can pull people over for are moving violations and reported stolen cars. Maybe reconsider your probable cause detector if the 10th person in a row doesn't have any contraband worth reporting.

*Unless Lenny can produce his much more accurate than FBI crime data

Anatomy of a Crime Wave
Baltimore’s experiment with de-policing has been disastrous—and deadly.


A decade ago, Baltimoreans became lab rats in a fateful experiment: their elected officials decided to treat the city’s long-running crime problem with many fewer cops. In effect, Baltimore began to defund its police and engage in de-policing long before those terms gained popular currency.

This experiment has been an abject failure. Since 2011, nearly 3,000 Baltimoreans have been murdered—one of every 200 city residents over that period. The annual homicide rate has climbed from 31 per 100,000 residents to 56—ten times the national rate. And 93 percent of the homicide victims of known race over this period were black.

Remarkably, Baltimore is reinforcing its de-policing strategy. State’s Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby no longer intends to prosecute various “low-level” crimes. Newly elected mayor Brandon Scott promises a five-year plan to cut the police budget. Both justify their policies by asserting that the bloodbath on city streets proves that policing itself “hasn’t worked”; they sell their acceleration of de-policing as a “fresh approach” and “re-imagining” of law enforcement.

Bi_3 wrote:https://www.city-journal.org/baltimore- ... experiment

Anatomy of a Crime Wave
Baltimore’s experiment with de-policing has been disastrous—and deadly.


A decade ago, Baltimoreans became lab rats in a fateful experiment: their elected officials decided to treat the city’s long-running crime problem with many fewer cops. In effect, Baltimore began to defund its police and engage in de-policing long before those terms gained popular currency.

This experiment has been an abject failure. Since 2011, nearly 3,000 Baltimoreans have been murdered—one of every 200 city residents over that period. The annual homicide rate has climbed from 31 per 100,000 residents to 56—ten times the national rate. And 93 percent of the homicide victims of known race over this period were black.

Remarkably, Baltimore is reinforcing its de-policing strategy. State’s Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby no longer intends to prosecute various “low-level” crimes. Newly elected mayor Brandon Scott promises a five-year plan to cut the police budget. Both justify their policies by asserting that the bloodbath on city streets proves that policing itself “hasn’t worked”; they sell their acceleration of de-policing as a “fresh approach” and “re-imagining” of law enforcement.

Again we see "leaders" allowing the continued slaughter of black people in order to game the numbers for political advantage. Relying on disparate impact stats (equity) to drive policy is demonstrably destroying black communities. Why do we still do this?

spike wrote:list everything that’s like covid theater

spike wrote:list everything that’s like covid theater

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:list everything that’s like covid theater

Enacting woke, politically driven responses to a problem all while knowing said responses don't actually accomplish anything? You'd have to talk to someone who lives in Baltimore to get a detailed list. I kind of doubt any of the WFH soy boys of RM live in Baltimore though.

Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the footage, saying the “premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and … undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.”

B wrote:https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/troopers-stun-and-drag-black-man-before-his-death-video/

Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the footage, saying the “premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and … undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.”

This happened 2 years ago, Louisiana.

Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen

An Atlanta mayoral candidate who voted to defund millions of dollars from the local police department’s budget reportedly had his car stolen by a group of young thieves this week.

City Council Member Antonio Brown had just gotten out of his white Mercedes coupe to speak to fellow community leader Ben Norman in northwest Atlanta’s Dixie Hills community Wednesday when he spotted four or five kids — the youngest only 6 or 7, WAGA-TV reported.

The children were walking around a store — and within seconds were inside Brown’s car, he said.

“One kid was in the driver’s seat,” Brown told the outlet. “Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car. He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car. The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas. Ben let go.”

“As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble,” he added. “And I would have hurt him.”

Brown said he filed a report with the Atlanta Police Department.

“This is a generational poverty issue,” Brown said. “These kids, it’s 12:30 in the afternoon. Why aren’t they in school? Why aren’t we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they’re in recreational centers?”