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And no more hauling female crime victims out of public sight in the back of the car and sexually assaulting them.
This is a Thing people in the upper Midwest do. They just leave the car running and unlocked when going into the convenience store to grab something. It used to be everyone did this, but it is much less common now.
So by reducing the common denominators, the second-best place to buy hard drugs is within one block of the 4th Street police station?
Meaning the third-best place to buy hard drugs is inside the 2nd Street police station?! 😵💫
There was a gas station a couple of blocks from my old house that I didn't stop at once the entire time I lived there. Obvious drug dealers, fights, two or three murders I know of in four years.
A major police station was two blocks south on the same road.
In the late 90s, a quirk of the way a East Hartford CT police station was situated led to a prostitute stroll organically developing along its back street without them even being aware of it, although they did catch on after a while.
Super common in southeast Missouri including the cops. A few years ago I delivered pizza for some extra money and the local jail was a frequent customer. Every time I'd deliver, there was at least one patrol car in the lot running unattended, sometimes multiple. One particularly memorable time someone was being booked and the guy was yelling at them about wasting taxpayer money 'You didnt even shut the car off when you took me in' etc etc. The police were... not amused.
I mean the math checks out.
But how did they tip?
I don’t believe this! In every sim city game putting in a police station immediately lowers crime and sim city would never lie to me!!!
It pretty interesting!
https://www.wired.com/story/simcity-libertarian-toy-land/
https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-murder-trial-law-enforcement-42722f3b1568176b4750bc4b9643866e
Apparently the THIRD TIME is the charm for convincting murderous cops around here. This one got into a fight, shot the victim in the stomach. After the victim fell he aimed the gun, fired. The gun jammed. He cleared it and fired again into the victim's head.
Before that though..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/uvalde-grand-jury-indictments-police-chief-officer/index.html
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There is one exception: if they are under a contract says they have a requirement to act they can be charged for not acting. Officers assigned to schools or airports are covered by more than just their contract with their department, but the contract with the location they are assigned to. Those contracts are usually based on security/safety officer contracts rather than law enforcement contracts, which almost always DO contain a requirement to act.
The dozens of officers milling around outside assaulting parents can't be charged but any officers actually assigned to the school likely can be.
Remember the newspaper illegally raided by police? (The one in Kansas since this happened way too many times last year). The first of several lawsuits has settled. A reporter who was not named in the warrant whose personal belongings were searched and phone seized (and returned broken) has gotten $235,000.
There are still lawsuits from the newspaper, it's owner, and the city council member whose house was also raided that day. This is going to be a very expensive mistake for such a tiny town.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
But also fucking fire the cops and have them charged.
Don’t forget that Republicans also want to limit how much claimants can sue for, both because they are often the perpetrators and also that frequently Democrats are found among civil trial lawyers.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/us/kansas-police-chief-newspaper-charge/index.html
Lawsuits are still happening but the former chief of police will be charged with obstruction of justice related to his collusion with a restaurant owner (who the target paper alleged had corruptly obtained a liquor license) to conceal their text message conversations that are the subject of an ongoing FOIA battle.
Edit: also as a fun fact, that restaurant owner was forced to shutter two of her businesses in the backlash, and lost a contract to operate the restaurant inside a historic hotel. It seems like the town is having absolutely none of this shit.
Which is at the very minimum a completely outrageous conclusion to come to. According to the same article, there is recorded evidence of the two men colluding after the fact on what they told investigators.
Judge Charles Simpson was appointed in 1986 by Ronald Reagan, has been an advisor to Mitch McConnell, and has been considered a senior Judge since 2013. If you were wondering what kind of politics the man practices, there you go. Or the fact that he probably should have retired a decade or more ago. Another example of where the judiciary should have some hard caps on the age of jurists.
Likewise if you feel like this was issued on a Friday morning, on purpose, I feel the same way. This is likely to get buried by the upcoming Labor day weekend and amongst the end of the DNC party this week.
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I'd heard about this case, but the additional stuff revealed by this investigation is just. horrifying.
A particular quote from the former police officer they interviewed as an expert on procedure:
This whole thing is horrible so y'know. read on your own recognizance. But the main thing that struck me about this is it seems like they are getting bored of just shooting folks for bothering to call for help, and now they're getting creative with their horrors. Abolish the police.
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A lawyer that's won millions for his clients suing the LAPD, who has seen them commit torture, kidnapping, and arson, who has seen them threaten judges and forge their signatures, who has seen them try to steal from the national guard and sell badges to known gang members... Honestly believed this was too much even for them.
And it was so much worse than that.
There's that line from Matilda; if you're going to be cruel, be so outlandishly absurdly cruel that no-one will believe it when they hear it.
The paramedic who murdered Elijah McClain with ketamine was released today because, quote "he made a split second decision"
Funny how that applies to a lot of crimes but never gets cited much except to defend these assholes.
Also drawing and injecting FIVE HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS of ketamine isn't exactly a split second action
https://x.com/CBSNewYork/status/1835466719546032331?t=nK-JZnbhcMZIX7anQok3CQ&s=09
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Do you figure they still try to charge him with felony murder for the cop being shot?
“One dead, three others hospitalized with gunshot wounds after reckless cops lose their shit on a schizophrenic turnstile jumper,” is both fair and more accurate
Nothing.
They get mad at you for even holding up the line and usher you in without pay just to keep things moving.
Definitely worth committing a mass shooting. /s
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which is well over the "we better kill this criminal and a couple other people while we're at it" line.
I mean, yeah obviously. A loaf of bread is only like, 2 bucks.