Bulletbob (05-09-2021)
It is simple logistics.
Say you have 50 police officers covering a community of 18,000 residents.
You have three shifts a day, 24/7. Everybody needs two days off.
One or two people will be out sick. One or two people will have to work the administrative duties in the station house on each tour. Somebody will have to supervise each tour.
It's not so easy.
Now imagine pulling bodies out of that precariously balanced rotation so they can go attend training about how men can give birth.
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Bulletbob (05-09-2021)
anatta (05-09-2021)
Police reform may well be of the many necessary changes that America may have to make in order to sustain itself as a democratic republic.
Where it stands on the priority list is not anywhere the same for different segments of the overall reform movement.
I think we need to look at policing, but on my side of the room, socialized medicine and the abolition of right to work laws come up higher on the list.
Other progressive liberals have priorities of their own.
If I were an urban black person instead of an urban white person, police reform might be higher on the list.
If I were afraid of guns, gun control would be higher on my list.
Women's physical reproductive autonomy IS high on my list even though I've had a Mr. Johnson for many, many decades.
[I just hate irresponsible procreation.]
Voter suppression is one we should be all prioritizing together.
We different factions on the left are allies, not enemies, and we don't at all seek to impede one another's priorities.
We each have our own, however.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
that's just the tip of the iceberg. One major problem is the lack of standards, or rather the acceptance of double standards, of our own population and it's viewpoint on racism/reverse racism. The other major problem that ignoramus' like Nomad are either ambivalent about or only care about when it works against them is the lack of independence in the judiciary.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
It's gonna get worse. NYCops retirement rate last year was 75% higher then the year before.
DeBlaiso stripped ( defunded) about $1B from the budget so the new class of s̶a̶c̶r̶i̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶a̶m̶b̶s̶ cops is way down as well
^ all I care aboutdont New York my Florida
Taft2016 (05-09-2021)
PostmodernProphet (05-09-2021)
We have a national police force called the FBI. The left doesn't want more efficient police they want more people on the government payroll. We all see how inefficient big government is now. Nationalizing the nations police would be a giant step forward in completely destroying law enforcement.
We, as teenagers, were attending a dance at an amusement park's big ballroom on a beautiful lake.
Rumors had been spreading about an impending brawl breaking out.
I was dressed in my favorite Fabiano continental cut suit.
My hair, which I actually had in quantity at the time, had just been styled,
and I was wearing expensive cologne for a kid my age. It had been a Christmas gift.
A cop grabbed me--I was an accomplished young amateur boxer who could possibly, although certainly not for sure, have kicked his ass, but I didn't screw around with cops--
put me up against the wall a little bit too hard, and frisked me.
"What the fuck are you doing, Dick? You know me."
[This was my day off, but on other evenings, I worked at a pizza stand on the amusement park grounds.]
"Shut the fuck up and play along with me, Nifty," he said, looking as though he were hissing.
"We've got to show that we're ready to put down any trouble."
"Yah, sure, Dick, but watch the fucking suit for Christ's sake."
That was many decades ago, but I remember it to this day.
Dick was actually a pretty decent guy for a big red-faced fucking mick,
and he actually knew how to do his job.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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