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Post #439,682
by Another Scott
8/19/21 11:59:23 PM
8/19/21 11:59:23 PM
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New Yup.
:-(

I recently saw a bit of a UK miniseries on murder mysteries and murder investigations or something and part of one episode was on the history of the London metropolitan police force. It was only created in 1829. NYC's was later. Police are a very modern construct, and no doubt we should be doing more to modernize their duties, responsibilities, and regulations as society has changed and we've learned much more about how humans actually tick.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #439,683
by drook
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8/20/21 9:38:57 AM
8/20/21 9:38:57 AM
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New It's (always) worse than it appears
The first organized police forces in the U.S. were runaway slave posses. I don't think that's sufficient to taint the entirety of current law enforcement, but when you look at what counts as "tough on crime" it's hard not to see that "crime" seems to exclusively mean things that poor (and usually minority) people do.

Wage theft is more than 3 times the size of robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined. How many officers are hassling CEOs for underpaying employees?

There are more than 126,000 sites where industrial waste is known to have contaminated groundwater. If each of those is responsible for one early death per year that's 6 times the murder rate of < 20k/yr. When is the last time you saw a chemical company CEO perp walked on the evening news?

When the rich and powerful are allowed to define what even counts as "crime" is it any wonder we have police forces that are de facto segregation enforcers?
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Drew
     Dark - (drook) - (12) - Aug. 12, 2021, 09:16:42 AM EDT
         Dark humor is like food. - (InThane) - Aug. 12, 2021, 03:56:45 PM EDT
         thats what was said last year, price not affected tho -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 12, 2021, 04:22:06 PM EDT
             Got Delta now though - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 12, 2021, 06:02:49 PM EDT
                 Well, some are probably vaccinated. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 13, 2021, 09:03:14 AM EDT
         Re: Dark - (Another Scott) - (5) - Aug. 18, 2021, 10:22:45 PM EDT
             They shouldn't be publishing the names before conviction - (drook) - (4) - Aug. 19, 2021, 09:00:00 AM EDT
                 Agreed they're in a world of hurt. But isn't it SOP? - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 19, 2021, 10:20:25 AM EDT
                     "Florida Man" proves that - (drook) - (2) - Aug. 19, 2021, 04:30:10 PM EDT
                         Yup. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2021, 11:59:23 PM EDT
                             It's (always) worse than it appears - (drook) - Aug. 20, 2021, 09:38:57 AM EDT
         Took me a while... So, Sturgis time again? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2021, 07:17:51 AM EDT
             Yup -NT - (drook) - Aug. 22, 2021, 07:43:08 AM EDT

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