There is a weak and poorly funded mental health system in the States. People with good support systems and good health insurance cannot get proper care. If one is not affluent and/or cooperative care...
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There is a weak and poorly funded mental health system in the States. People with good support systems and good health insurance cannot get proper care. If one is not affluent and/or cooperative care...
Excellent post David.
Excellent article. Thanks.
I got one too.
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I will read this. thanks.
"Reville for Radicals" and "Rules for Radicals" by Alinsky are great books. He wrote of shareholder activism years ago.
"over reliance on measures of effectiveness" is a great phrase.
That last sentence is exactly correct davidbfpo.
A great deal of police work is politics.
With the increased quality of anti theft features on cars carjacking has increased.
From your quoted article it seems that if the data mining predicts a crime and an arrest is made a crystal ball is successful. If nothing happens the crystal ball prevented a crime. Another...
The Crystal Ball Unit had their legs knocked out from under them yesterday.
Some "experts" are able to sell to the upper echelon of an organization. The cops on the beat understand what is BS and what is not.
I have been to classes taught by state, local, or national...
A lot of police have lost faith in the system.
My first point was that Tom Dispatch takes a point of view that can sound reasonable. My second was that a little bit of digging found extremism from the fringe. I was not endorsing the comparison.
I read this site from time to time. He makes some interesting points. Last week I downloaded two podcasts from his website. The first was an interview with Noam Chomsky. The second featured a...
"It's the Pepsi generation, coming at you, growing strong. Put yourself behind a Pepsi. If you'rw living, you belong."
A medal for being timid? Our troops are going to be killed and wounded when they don't defend themselves.
We have had a version of Compstat for years. We also have courts that consider enforcement of broken windows theory arrests to be Police harassment. Chicago Officers have been in Federal Court...
Secondcitycop is great.
In grade school we would write JMJ on the top of our written assignments and draw a cross underneath. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. SMJ Savior, Mary and Joseph?
One of the points of the research mentioned is that people will disengage due to fear of embarrassment etc. I have observed that cops and soldiers will sometimes engage in a face to face...
I have seen the streets more violent than now. I have not seen violence against the police at current levels.
Condolences to the family and the Seattle PD.
Motivation matters. Mimicked shootings are usually gunfights.
I don't think one had anything to do with the other. The Fort Hood incident was Jihad. The Orlando incident was economic revenge.
IMHO.