Chucktshoes

The difference being the armed criminal doesn’t spend tens of millions of dollars on lobbyists and political donations to gain the ability to write the laws to benefit them. It’s not an apples to apples comparison.

Refer back to my guillotine meme.

Nobody who doesn’t stand to benefit materially from that sort of transition advocates for it.

Therein lies the rub. The ones we are talking about use our desire to protect folks like Erik’s uncles as cover against regulations that would rein in their malfeasance.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they’re going down as well. we were supposed to fix the issue presented by SIBs, and instead have only made the problem worse. I worry that if this really gets rolling the 2008 collapse will only look like a dress rehearsal.

I’ve been a day 1 annual subscriber as I found them in the fairly early days of of their time together at Rising.

Haha. Been there.

I know exactly where this sign is.

The issue is that when we’re talking about the people in our financial system, like those who got bailed out and all of this, what you describe, doesn’t apply to them. We’re not talking about industrialists. We’re not talking about people who make things or put up their own money to take a risk to make peoples lives better. The finance industry is more about extracting as much wealth out of nothing, and creating an ever more fragile house of cards to accomplish those ends that in the process puts all of us at risk. The two videos that I linked help layout the kind of rigging of the system that goes on. These folks have done a very good job of privatizing the profits while socializing the risks.

As a general rule, with the excessive financialization of our economy, only a select few benefit when things are on the way up. The real problem is that everyone, and I mean everyone gets hurt on the way down.

“Tested to NIJ” is not the same thing as “NIJ tested”.

New watch. So much fun.

That’s pretty much everyone whether the admit it or not.

Agreed, but as I said before, Weirich needed to go. Maybe now that folks are seeing just how bad it was inevitably going to get with an activist like Mulroy, maybe a proper reorientation can occur. As another friend of mine said, “if the courts are trash, policing is futile.”

In a non-snarky and serious manner, let me say that it does happen quite a bit. It’s a legitimate concern and all of my cop buddies (yes I actually have a few on multiple departments including MPD) say that impersonations are a significant problem in Memphis. From folks being pulled over to home invasions. I literally just asked them to confirm before this post. That said, they all agree that Mulroy is a HUUUUUGE problem.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=police+imposter+arrested

You’re kidding about the police imposters, right? You’re not actually serious that you’ve not heard any stories of police imposters, are you? The stories are legion and not just in the apocryphal “my cousin’s sister’s uncle’s grandmother had that happen” sense. There are literally page after page of search results of folks being arrested for it nationwide and I remember news stories about it going back to my childhood. It’s the entire reason that there are statutes regarding the kinds and colors of lights on vehicles. Unmarked cars should never be used for traffic stops. As far as the legality/constitutionality of pre-textual stops, I don’t dispute that. I still think it’s a just course of action for the people’s representatives to ban their use like how I don’t support the use of no-knock warrants. Even if something is “technically” ok, doesn’t make it just or right. I also don’t deny that it makes the job of police harder. Then again, I’ve always maintained that it’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, it’s be an entirely different kind of terrible place to live.

On these subjects, I’m going to have to disagree with you here. The use of unmarked vehicles for traffic enforcement has long been a concern for public safety. Whether it was imposters pulling over folks to rob and or rape folks, or other factors, it has long been a controversial, and in my opinion improper practice. The use of pretextual traffic stops as fishing expeditions because of suspicions of other types of wrongdoing is on the line of running afoul of civil liberty violations. I don’t know about you, but dancing on the line of violating civil liberties of the citizenry is not something I believe a properly functioning, law-enforcement entity should be seeking. Any good officer, or agency should be able to recognize where the line is of rights violations is, be able to point at it and make the statement “it’s waaaaay over there.“

He’s a war tourist. Claims to be fighting in Ukraine, yet is always pictured with the cleanest uniform and kit that don’t have the slightest pinch of salt to them. Never has any spare mags or ammo in any of the pictures he posts. He’s an obvious liar and propaganda mouthpiece playing a role for the cash and creds.

My contempt for Malcolm Nance is without limit.

All of the cable news networks are entertainment outlets aimed at a specific audience biases. None should be trusted at all for any reason. They wish not to disseminate truth or understanding. They simply want to keep your eyeballs glued to their screen and will say whatever it takes to accomplish that. It’s a good thing to understand that they’re all dying businesses.