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Landlord

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  1. Because I never saw anyone disagree with your assertion that cops who see other cops do bad stuff and say nothing are also bad cops.
  2. Are you sure that 'they' disagreed with your definition? Or maybe they disagreed with your guess at the rareness or percentages of good/bad cops.
  3. what folks are you talking aboout?
  4. The majority of cops I know, and I imagine the majority of cops in general, are relatively normal people with a remarkably difficult job. There's many aspects of the difficulty of that job. There's PTSD possibilities, seeing some really absolutely awful s#!t over and over and over again. There's the intoxicating temptation of power and abusing that power, which all human beings are susceptible to (Stanford Prison Experiment). There's also wanting to do what's right, but having to provide for yourself and your family and also be a team player and belong to your tribe can make doing what's 'right' very difficult when confronted with your peers doing what's wrong. There's also the reality that systems take on their own personas independent of the people who comprise them. That's why more police should be in favor of 'defunding' the police imo. The point of that is that our society asks police to do too much that they aren't equipped for. Train them better, train them better for less and more specialized roles, and after you've trained them better for more specialized roles provide them more support for the struggles and horrors that come with the job. And also build more safeguards against abuse and corruption and accountability into the SYSTEM so that less individuals have to carry the burden of being rats/snitches/outcast/threatened for standing up against impropriety.
  5. Don't apologize for being pissed off that this board is littered with trash and doesn't work well.
  6. Around 800,000 full-time employed law enforcement officers in the United States, but I believe included in that number is federal agents, prison guards, homicide detectives, etc. So the number of 'police' on the streets in the way we're talkling about is smaller. We've seen at least 500 instances in the last month of police escalating and causing violence, at a time when you'd imagine they'd be coached into being on their BEST behavior. We've also probably seen the same amount of police departments and officers on social media and in press conferences crying out that they're being oppressed. Again, this is only the stuff we've seen.How much more has happened when there wasn't video? How about when they're not under a microscope? There's zero percent chance that 99.9% of police are good. There's not even a chance that 99% are. Maybe 95%? Even then, 5% with the abillity to cause this kinda carnage is pretty damn frightening.
  7. Nah our new science teacher who was under the age of 30 was making way more than the 65+ year old hag who'd been there decades.
  8. I see, so you want the 'blacks' to realize the left politicians don't do anything for them. To what end? Because the right politicians do?
  9. The 'left' is in the streets every day for the last two weeks protesting, talking to their public officials, spreading ideas for reform, forcing public pressure which is leading to resignations and arrests, literally being human shields for black people caught in front of militarized police.
  10. How is free speech dead when there's a very popular 'news' channel peddling conspiracy theories like black lives matter being a terrorist organization, and getting away with it with no punishment or censorship whatsoever?
  11. On paper you'd think so, but Beck didn't have the skill to be able to keep that production up when it mattered the most. We'd have the horses, but his scheming and rhythm as a playcaller would definitely prevent us from reaching that sky. Also, we had the most electric offense in the country in 2010 until Taylor got hurt.
  12. This is the dumbest s#!t I've read in at least the last week (except some content from Notre Dame Joe).
  13. I went to middle/high school in Rising City, population ~450 12 kids in my graduating class
  14. I mean to be fair I grew up in Columbus and the mascot is the Discoverers, so I don't think it behooved the culture to shoot straight about Columbus' deeds lol
  15. I've got dozens of friends ini the CHAZ and all report it as peaceful, communal, and awesome with everyone being provided for and a fun block party atmosphere.
  16. I mean we've seen the video of the cops lounging/hanging out during the most violent looting in Chicago. We saw an entire precinct of cops leave their building in Minneapolis to let rioters burn it down. I've seen multiple tweets and articles from MLPS business owners saying they watched people looting stores for hours and they called 911 only to be told it's already being taken care of or there's nothing they can do.
  17. Do you see any videos of any police doing anything or even present in the videos of all the looting and property destruction? They're nowhere to be found. I've seen at least 3 videos of people running out of stores with product in hand and police just standing there, maybe fainting a step towards one person or halfheartedly shoving another.
  18. What a mess, but a much needed one. Keep in mind that a lot of these cities let the looting at the beginning happen. They didn't even try to stop it, and then they brought in the militarized police on the protestors, not the looters.
  19. Is it really a bad look if every single fanbase does it?
  20. Things I never learned about in school: • Tulsa Massacre • Jim Crow • Redlining • The U.S. shipping Jews back to axis-europe • Churchill's pretty disgusting racism • Christopher Columbus slaughtering indigenous people • The G.I. Bill, Homesteaders Act, etc. But my 3rd grade teacher did talk about attending a "fascinating" Ku Klux Klan rally in NC in the 90's
  21. since the first teenager figured out how to illegally download photoshop
  22. Also, not sure if this falls under qualified immunity or not, but people need to be given a much easier and fair system of engaging officers or the city in civil suits, and protesting unjust tickets/fines/etc. The system is designed so effectively to make it impossible for a citizen to get justice against the state, because every level can blame other levels and dissipate the energy of an accusation. Also, prison reform and abolish for profit prisons. We way past time fam.
  23. None of the actual progress being made will result in much of anything if we can't reform qualified immunity and strip the unions of some of their power. Those have got to be the two primary prongs of attack imo. Then, training/management reform (make it harder to be a cop, but give cops more support for managing PTSD/stress/conflict resolution/etc) and a rethinking of what officials need to be inserted into what scenarios.
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