mobby_6kl posted:

How many died due to Rona

deep dish peat moss posted:

20 were pedestrian cops being hit by civilian drivers

Read After Burning posted:

But "MASKS ARE TRAUMATIC", right?

Dapper_Swindler posted:

all these dudes look the same

InsertPotPun posted:

police never look when crossing the street.

after the sandy hook shooting a friend organized a small charity drive. she got death threats.
these people don't care about "children" they care about their narrative NEVER being questioned.

Zil posted:

It would be more greasy Tex-mex in that area of the state. Lots of cheese, beans and lard.

Read After Burning posted:

https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1549135553240748033
This is surprising to absolutely no one, but still. Fuckin'

lollontee posted:

whats the latest on the shootings

Read After Burning posted:

Ramos looks like Gendron and Sapirman did the fusion dance.

deep dish peat moss posted:

Get this - three hundred and one
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072411820/law-enforcement-deaths-2021-covid


Guns - 61
Car Crashes - 36
Covid - 301

Also worth noting that the National Law Enforcement Memorial claimed that 458 officers died "in the line of duty" in 2021. But they were counting COVID.

Then the FBI report said "actually it was 129 if you count correctly dumbasses, and 53 of those were their own fault"

Dapper_Swindler posted:

all these dudes look the same

putin is a oval office posted:

Do people forget that there are two sides to a border? Mexico helping to fund border security is for their own benefit, not the US, and that's A Good Thing. It's not inherently racist to have good border security. Countries all over the world regularly invest in their border security for entirely ordinary, non racist reasons. Different countries have different items that are legal or restricted, or in the case of biosecurity there are items that could pose incredible risk to the receiving country's flora or fauna. I know people here know that, this is just in response to that idiotic Twitter take.

Read After Burning posted:

Ramos looks like Gendron and Sapirman did the fusion dance.

Strange Poon posted:

The Twitter take is fine because Biden's admin and Democrat politicians aren't just worrying about "biosecurity" they're keeping in with the GOPs heinously cruel treatment of migrants and draconian policies, and giving money and support to things like Border Security and DHS which have been outed as being huge cesspools of right wing militia sympathizers and Q believers. Being critical of how Dems handle this isn't advocating for "open borders" and "anarchy at the border", you're literally falling for propaganda if that's what you think.

deep dish peat moss posted:

To add some personal context to this - I'm in Arizona and right now, every right-wing political ad on TV (with the exception of Kari Lake's because she's "not extreme enough" for them) is sponsored or endorsed or funded by the National Border Patrol Council, a union of border patrol workers. Here's their website: https://bpunion.org/

The National Border Patrol Council is currently under investigation by the FBI for embezzling $500,000,000 given to them by Trump.

Nearly every one of these ads features a personal appearance by the NBPC's president, Brandon Judd, who is an open neo-nazi who supports Replacement Theory:
https://americasvoice.org/press_rel...acement-theory/

satanic splash-back posted:

The real question is:
It's bad (real bad), but how bad is that compared to the average police department?

deep dish peat moss posted:

FBI released their reports 2021 statistics on Law Enforcement Officers killed in the line of duty back in may, I just saw it:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-releases-2021-statistics-on-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty

Key takeways:
73 were killed in the line of duty.
Of those 73, one was responding to an active shooter
Of those 73, 25 were not actively involved in any policing at the time
Of those 73, 61 were killed by firearms. Four were killed by karate masters with their hands and feet registered as lethal weapons.
Of those 73, 43 were in the South.

Separate from those 73, 56 died accidental deaths in the line of duty.
Of those 56, 32 were car crashes, two were ATV crashes, 20 were pedestrian cops being hit by civilian drivers, and 4 were drownings.
Of the 32 deaths from car cashes, only 7 were known to have been wearing their seatbelt.
Of the 56 accidental deaths, 26 were in the South.


So basically the entire police scare about them being targets and under attack was the result of a bunch of Barney Fifes in America's armpit not wearing their seatbelt or provoking people into shooting them.

deep dish peat moss posted:

It's an average police department except designed from the ground-up to be explicitly racist without even attempting to hide it, and they've been highly militarized because of fearmongering about cartels and the war on drugs.

Hollismason posted:

I'm sorry four were killed by karate masters with their hands and feet registered as lethal weapons. What now, they died how.

Hollismason posted:

I'm sorry four were killed by karate masters with their hands and feet registered as lethal weapons. What now, they died how.

Read After Burning posted:

That's loving awful...I hope she's recovered mentally a bit from that. I'm assuming "false flag" shouters?

The Bananana posted:

"Four were killed by karate masters with their hands and feet registered as lethal weapons."

Uh...
I need to know more

Pennywise the Frown posted:

https://i.imgur.com/4ZPKLMT.mp4

Pennywise the Frown posted:

https://i.imgur.com/4ZPKLMT.mp4

pro starcraft loser posted:

61 getting got by guns still sounds pretty high.

EDIT - Actually that's probably lower than the number of civilians killed in mass shootings per year at this point...

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I have cable because it's nice to have something on in the background that makes me feel less lonely.

Read After Burning posted:

satanic splash-back posted:

The real question is:
It's bad (real bad), but how bad is that compared to the average police department?

Wendigee posted:

Pennywise im not targeting that at you lol. I love your posting 💗

deep dish peat moss posted:

I'd really like to write a novel about Jesus being reborn in the modern day

Read After Burning posted:

Ramos looks like Gendron and Sapirman did the fusion dance.

That's loving awful...I hope she's recovered mentally a bit from that. I'm assuming "false flag" shouters?

Ah poo poo, now I want to change my lunch plans...

deep dish peat moss posted:

I'd really like to write a novel about Jesus being reborn in the modern day and both he and god are super psyched to learn that there's an entire religion based around them so they choose the USA for him to be born in. But he's brown and liberal and socialist so they throw him in an internment camp and declare him a blasphemer when he tells them he's jesus, even though his name is literally Jesus Christ and everything.

deep dish peat moss posted:

I spent some time reading today to provide a proper and more thorough answer to this so here you go:



The US-Mexico border is roughly 2,000 miles long. The US Border Patrol currently employes 20,000 border patrol agents (with ~21,000 mandated by Congress) - of those twenty thousand, 17,000 are stationed along the southern border. There are approximately 8.5 Border Patrol agents stationed on the US-Mexico border for every mile of border territory.

During the Trump administration, approximately 52 miles of new Border Wall were constructed. The administration also tore down and re-built approximately 373 miles of wall that existed prior to the Trump administration. This was done using approximately 10 billion dollars which were illegally pilfered from the Department of Defense, Trump prioritized using the illegally-transferred money first, so that the legal money would remain in the border patrol's pockets after evidence of Trump's crimes came to light. When Biden took office, he asked the Border Patrol to return the illegally pilfered money and they refused, claiming that they only have the legal money left. Republicans in both the house and the senate refused to sign off on Biden's budget plan until he removed the request for the Border Patrol to return the 10 billion dollars they stole from the Pentagon.
Due to rampant corruption and embezzlement, Trump's border wall has cost the US taxpayer approximately 24.4 million dollars per mile of wall. This is a total of approximately 8.466 billion dollars which have been spent to add a total of 52 miles of wall to the border, and tear down and re-build an existing 300+ miles.

The Real ID Act which was adopted by Congress in 2005 gives the DHS the authority to waive local, state, and federal laws and regulations to expedite the construction of barriers and roads. Between 2005 and 2016, 5 such waivers were given. During the Trump administration, 26 such waivers were given. On average, the waivers given by Trump waive a much broader category of laws - over 60 environmental laws have been waived and violated across the South in order to build the border wall. These include the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty, the Clean Air act, the Archeological Resources Protection Act, and the Safe Drinking Water act, among others.

As the size of the Border Patrol and their funding have grown, the number of apprehensions and arrests they make has sharply declined - in 2000 Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.6 million individuals attempting to cross the border illegally. In 2020, the border patrol apprehended 400,000 individuals.

With over 17,000 agents on the southern border, the mean average number of encounters with another human being (outside of the agency) per month for a border patrol agent is seven. Those 17,000 people stationed across the Southern border interact with on average seven different border-crossers a month each. If we assume the average person works 20 days per month, this means that every Border Patrol agent is paid for a bare minimum of 13 days per month where they do not have a job to do, using money illegally appropriated from the Pentagon's defense budget.

According to US Customs & Border Protection, Border Patrol agents experienced 151,358 encounters with border crossers in the month of February 2021. However, they do lots of statistical manipulation to make this number appear far higher than it actually is - that 151,358 includes individuals/groups crossing multiple times within the month, they often double or triple count individuals. Many of those 150k are individuals deported under Title 42 who were caught re-crossing (and counted as an encounter) several times that month.

All of this while verifiable, peer-reviewed research ( https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/d...GOn8ooH0eUPXlQ& ) shows that increasing the number of border patrol agents and increasing border patrol funding serves only to cause more migrant deaths without any measurable reduction in the number of people successfully crossing or attempting to cross - the entire agency fulfills no purpose beyond making would-be border crossers die agonizing deaths to heat exposure and dehydration.

They have a 24/7 missing migrant crisis line that someone can call if they suspect someone has gone missing while attempting to cross the border. Border Patrol only responds to these calls in fewer than 40% of cases. ( http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/uploads/8/3/5/1/83515082/left_to_die_-_english.pdf )