(to be clear he was probably pulled over more than 31 times, assuming some of those ended with a warning).
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
(er also I guess there could have been multiple infractions on a single stop, but w/e, that's a lot any way you slice it).
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
classic Newt - go from eye-opening legit cogent point to a totally irrelevant cultural dogwhistle about hip hop
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
I take that back, a more generous reading of his statement about alienation leading to sloganeering is certainly possible
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
woke newt
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
I'm still boggling at that statement from Gingrich
also lol: so it WAS Newt in the Jheri curl
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13620723_10101088199830621_8507605349493606196_n.jpg?oh=aa0ebb9937aaee4d11abbb35884bc155&oe=57F05CA3
― nomar, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
what the fuck
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tFVzEEB.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
is that dumb tweet about the diverse people of our nation, and, if so, are latinos...tabasco??
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
i guess this is glaringly obvious but maybe it's time to change this model of choosing among the dregs of the public labor force to roam the streets with a license to kill
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
feel like she was just having feelings while eating breakfast
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
omg lagoon, the response to that Geraldo tweet
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
maybe robot cops will be less likely to kill black people indiscriminately
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, July 8, 2016 1:02 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not if they let white ppl program them
― lag∞n, Friday, July 8, 2016 1:04 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and not if they teach them use historically "effective" heuristics and training data to train them
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
i think the tabasco is blood : [
― nomar, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
http://66.media.tumblr.com/3746f585883ea8daa1e9aef64764811a/tumblr_ntp5nnKPKA1qagxv6o1_1280.jpg
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
the gingrich thing is bizarre. in the same breath he offers empathy to black folks and suggests they are not "normal." it's like he can't sustain an anti-racist statement without at least one implicitly racist undertone.
xposts -- aren't cops in big cities paid pretty well? even rookie cops around here are paid more than 2x what i've ever made.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
regardless I think we all can agree that is a terrible attempt at a haiku
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
+ generous benefits, pensions, etc.
xposts
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
let's bury Geraldo in Al Capone's vault
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
aren't cops in big cities paid pretty well? even rookie cops around here are paid more than 2x what i've ever made.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, July 8, 2016 1:49 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it really varies i think like in ferguson which is a small department in the middle of a big city their cops werent making much over minimum wage
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
right, it varies pretty widely. but i don't think "poor pay" is a universal condition of being a cop that somehow helps explain the broad institutional problems.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Apparently this was really just one guy.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
In most jurisdictions, cops are well-paid in the same sense that public school teachers are well-paid - good benefits, a decent middle-class/lower-middle-class income (before overtime and side-gigs for police). You won't starve but in urban areas it's not going to be easy.
Dallas PD had an issue a couple of years back about how few city cops could afford to live in the city itself if they wanted to raise a family.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
some of the shitest dunmb assholes that i went to high school with are now cops
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I think whoever had the idea to blow the shooter up with the bomb robot probably should have to answer some questions, definitely don't think that is good procedure, even if they had to act immediately
Whoever made that call probably could have a pretty good future in software development with ideas like that, though
― mh, Friday, 8 July 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
someone tell the NY Times, they still had "two snipers" 20 mins ago
xxxp
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Same the world over.
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
NY Times was where I saw this: http://www.nytimes.com/live/news-dallas-shooting-protest/johnson-was
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
It's weird this turned out to be one guy, there was so much stuff going around suggesting multiple shooters, although I know I know fog of war and whatnot.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Jesus Christ,these fucking headlines. I'm bracing myself for something along the lines of 'Sniper Who Suggested That Whites Are Too Chickenshit To Engage In A Race War Kills Five White Police Officers'.
Although the most sinister yet is 'US Police Forces Respond to Dallas Attack With Grief, Action'.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
If it really was one guy, I really want to know more about what exactly prompted the police to detain these other suspects.
there was footage of a guy shooting at ground level def not sniping guess it cldve been after he was on the move
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
yeah I saw that footage too
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, July 8, 2016 6:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is definitely not how los angeles operates
http://per.lacity.org/psb/lapd_salary.htm
http://achieve.lausd.net/Page/4140
my understanding is that it is easier to move up to pay grade 2/po2 making 70k per annum than to do the same teaching at a public school
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
do cops still get those sweet sweet pension plans after they retire or is it just for the brass
― 龜, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
why? i mean, sure, it's an open question, but detaining people on even vague suspicion seems a sensible move in a situation like this.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
Got into a p annoying fb fight with a lefty friend who was advocating for dismantling police unions. Really don't think that's the answer.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
i met an ex police officer here who retired in 10yrs and was getting ~100k per annum including benefits
owns a house in a beach city and surfs all day
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
also bothered by the grumbling about ex-servicemen in police forces. absent support, the implied accusation is horseshit.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Politicians prostrate before police unions is one of the smelliest constants in American life. deBlasio rolled over for them quickly in NYC after initially being somewhat measured.
Clinton tweeted some palaver about cops' "sacred" duty, i'm pretty sure most don't see it that way.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
― 龜, Friday, July 8, 2016 2:08 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya and u cn retire quite young is def a huge draw is my understanding
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Sacré pd bleu
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
it is tbh def an extremely difficult job but they need to do it much better
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
then you get a nice part time job in security while you collect your pension xxp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Early retirement with a large pension is one of the few things is one of the few things I have little argument about re: police.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
just retire them right away imo
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
how the fuck could this have been one guy? all last night the police and the news were reporting that the snipers had "triangulated" the officers. NBC played three videos taken right when the shooting started, and there's no way that could've been one guy, there were too many rounds being fired simultaneously.
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
turns out it was just one guy i guess
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link