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Kesper North posted:it's happening dot gif - was part of the announcement this morning I like how the article talks about whether or not Consent Decrees work and is completely silent on the NOPD consent decree. (spoilers: abject failure)
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A.o.D. posted:I like how the article talks about whether or not Consent Decrees work and is completely silent on the NOPD consent decree. (spoilers: abject failure) It reminds me of the instant pot bankruptcy. The New York Times and the Atlantic have both run stories on it and neither mentioned that investors loaned the company about 500 million and then pay themselves 250 million in bonuses leveraging them with even more debt. It’s a bit annoying when multiple media outlets, cover some thing and leave out basic fundamental parts of the story .
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Then there's the voices saying they're a bad idea in the article: cops claiming lower morale for the police, and Jeff Sessions saying it's not worth the money.
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silvergoose posted:Then there's the voices saying they're a bad idea in the article: cops claiming lower morale for the police, and Jeff Sessions saying it's not worth the money. Jeff Sessions, man there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Not long enough tho dude's gotta be pushing 80 when does the reaper come and collect his apartheid keebler elf? It has escaped from the shelf it was kept on come and get it back.
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Since I'm apparently not allowed to slap TIME'S social media intern with a wet fish. What about the reporter who thought Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was a good source on the question "should the government try to stop the police brutalizing black people"? e: apparently it's an argument he made while he was the AG but the article treats it as credible nonetheless Discussion Quorum fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:OR Tambo is an airport where you need a police/armed private security escort just getting out of the airport’s grounds. I go to South Africa every year, we just got back two weeks ago from out 14th visit. This is bullshit with a grain of truth. It's not Europe or America, but come on. We don't put any valuables in the checked luggage, which makes for a very heavy carry-on. No escort needed. However, you are subject to the same pick-pockets and pan-handlers at the airport as you are in many parts of the world. People take advantage of the jet-lagged and confused. Use normal precautions. Trip before this one I did get stopped by the police for a bullshit bribe as I was leaving the airport. South Africa appears to Americans like I imagine America appears to Europeans: You can't trust the police like you do at home, the violence is about 10x worse and the infrastructure is falling apart. Also, much like America, the violence is not evenly distributed. We get in the car and 10 minutes later I'm out in the country on a toll road better than most in America. Small town South Africa is beautiful.
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winnydpu posted:South Africa appears to Americans like I imagine America appears to Europeans: You can't trust the police like you do at home, the violence is about 10x worse and the infrastructure is falling apart. Also, much like America, the violence is not evenly distributed.
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winnydpu posted:I go to South Africa every year, we just got back two weeks ago from out 14th visit. This is bullshit with a grain of truth. It's not Europe or America, but come on. We don't put any valuables in the checked luggage, which makes for a very heavy carry-on. No escort needed. However, you are subject to the same pick-pockets and pan-handlers at the airport as you are in many parts of the world. People take advantage of the jet-lagged and confused. Use normal precautions. Trip before this one I did get stopped by the police for a bullshit bribe as I was leaving the airport. counting on my fingers the times i had to worry about getting jacked outside of the following airports in LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS:
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TheWeedNumber posted:counting on my fingers the times i had to worry about getting jacked outside of the following airports in LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: I would bet the average German tourist worries a lot more about making a wrong turn coming out of Miami airport and getting jacked than they do about taking a wrong turn coming out of Munich. Same deal.
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winnydpu posted:I would bet the average German tourist worries a lot more about making a wrong turn coming out of Miami airport and getting jacked than they do about taking a wrong turn coming out of Munich. Same deal. me tryna get my hybrid out of the enterprise lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrB9hOUWqA
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winnydpu posted:I go to South Africa every year, we just got back two weeks ago from out 14th visit. This is bullshit with a grain of truth. It's not Europe or America, but come on. We don't put any valuables in the checked luggage, which makes for a very heavy carry-on. No escort needed. However, you are subject to the same pick-pockets and pan-handlers at the airport as you are in many parts of the world. People take advantage of the jet-lagged and confused. Use normal precautions. Trip before this one I did get stopped by the police for a bullshit bribe as I was leaving the airport. I’m going by what the United Nations Department of Safety and Security advised in response to a number of armed robberies that actually took place on the airport grounds itself a few years ago. (I used to be a security advisor for a UN agency.) I’m sure most people who visit do so without incident, everything I’ve heard about the country suggests that if things go wrong, they go wrong real quick. I personally felt more sketched out in Addis Ababa than any other of the dozen African capitals I’ve been to, and most people tend to regard Addis as lower risk than Joburg or Cape Town.
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Man, I remember the last time I had to bribe the cops in Atlanta
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Carteret posted:Man, I remember the last time I had to bribe the cops in Atlanta I live about 6 to 8 hours away from Atlanta in the south and I still don't know how to read this.
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the first and only time I had to bribe a cop was in mexico and my mexican national ex told me i gave them too much afterwards. there should be a guide for this kind of thing
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A.o.D. posted:I live about 6 to 8 hours away from Atlanta in the south and I still don't know how to read this. He's being sarcastic
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App idea: bribe exchange rates
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Bribr, the hot new app that takes the guesswork out of police corruption! Convenient auto-pay options included, just scan the QR code on the cop's badge.
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In the US the local governments have already bribed the police for you.
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winnydpu posted:I would bet the average German tourist worries a lot more about making a wrong turn coming out of Miami airport and getting jacked than they do about taking a wrong turn coming out of Munich. Same deal. German tourists should worry more about not understanding the sheer scale of Death Valley in comparison to hikes back home.
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And why fanny packs and black socks with sandals are a nono.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:And why fanny packs and black socks with sandals are a nono. Too sexy for you? Anyways I thought I was getting asked for a bribe by a Croatian cop because he said I would get a discount if I payed cash for my speeding ticket. The amount was pretty small so I just smiled and nodded and payed out but then he gave me a receipt with a penciled in serial number and apparently it’s a legit way to pay for tickets there.
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Atleast one town in oregon or washington has that system too. You pay by the mph over the limit to make the ticket less severe. Dude i know was doing like 92 in a 65, paid a couple hundred bucks to the judge so it became doing 75 in a 65 and no points
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Bored As gently caress posted:He's being sarcastic With all of the copland poo poo happening there I couldn't be sure, you know?
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Somebody hasn't learned "don't feed the troll": https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1669864938314268672 The glorious, glorious trolls. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:Somebody hasn't learned to not feed the troll: It is his struggle.
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Stultus Maximus posted:It is his struggle. Hes going to write a book about it, and fash will buy it "My Bigly Struggle" or something like it Still workshopping the title
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Hyrax Attack! posted:German tourists should worry more about not understanding the sheer scale of Death Valley in comparison to hikes back home. I laughed but it was a rough chuckle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans
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TheWeedNumber posted:counting on my fingers the times i had to worry about getting jacked outside of the following airports in LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: people breaking into rental cars to steal luggage at the gas stations outside OAK is apparently quite common
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:people breaking into rental cars to steal luggage at the gas stations outside OAK is apparently quite common Someone had a uhaul full of stuff from a cross country move jacked near SeaTac recently, but that probably not terribly uncommon anywhere.
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We talked about malaria vaccines last (?) month. Vox has an article about what the rollout is looking like.
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In a similar vein, thieves have been known to sit outside indoor ranges and then follow people when they leave, because the most common activity after is getting food.
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Elmo's idiot brigade has been posting poo poo like this all day because they don't know what a National Guard / Reserve Unit is. https://twitter.com/WillingWitness/status/1670140737932099584 https://twitter.com/WillingWitness/status/1670105895811051520
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Jade Helm morons still doin their thing
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orange juche posted:Jade Helm morons still doin their thing You beat me to it!
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bulletsponge13 posted:In a similar vein, thieves have been known to sit outside indoor ranges and then follow people when they leave, because the most common activity after is getting food. Yeah parked cars are a major source of gun thefts. Often because of helpful labels to alert thieves unattended guns are there for the taking: quote:There is little question about the scope of the problem. A report issued in May by the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety analyzed FBI crime data in 271 American cities, large and small, from 2020 and found that guns stolen from vehicles have become the nation’s largest source of stolen firearms — with an estimated 40,000 guns stolen from cars in those cities alone. Surely the gun lobby would be ok with simple lockboxes to keep these safe? quote:Mr. Hemmer’s bill is supported by John C. Drake, the Nashville Police chief, who on Tuesday wrote a letter to legislative leaders in which he mentioned that the high-profile robbery and killing of a local country musician, Kyle Yorlets, in 2019 was carried out by youths using a pistol stolen from a vehicle. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/...&smid=url-share
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Some of the replies in that thread are amazing. THE STORM IS UPON US! MARSHALL LAW!
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah parked cars are a major source of gun thefts. Often because of helpful labels to alert thieves unattended guns are there for the taking:  FWIW, I don’t know a single gun owner who likes the NRA. Everyone except obstinate boomer donors recognizes them as the turbo grifting machine that they’ve turned into.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah parked cars are a major source of gun thefts. Often because of helpful labels to alert thieves unattended guns are there for the taking: The Moron Label is apparently even more apt than I thought.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:
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