And now, “if things escalate or otherwise go awry,” the cop can just shoot you, so that’s more convenient than dusting for prints!

Police chief in my small city of 60k makes $325k per year. Most of the regular cops are pulling in $120k. They make upwards of $200k at the end of their career (in their mid 50s), then spend the last 3 years working a shit ton of OT so that there pensions are inflated based on those last few years of total pay. Then…

Also I remember as a teen touching an electric guitar and the string zapped me pretty bad, leaving a scar on my index finger that changed my print. So anything like that can change it any point of time.

“Ultimately, says Fresolone, if things escalate or otherwise go awry, the officer’s touch to the car’s taillight will have left a fingerprint in a place where investigators would know to look for it.”

“You know, one day honest citizens are going to stand up to you crooked cops!”

Shorter: to be an asshole.

“Above maintenance workers” hmmmm I’m not so sure of that. I know a lot of maintenance workers who just brush off smaller job injuries, and 2 who have been badly injured by machines. I know 1 former auto tech classmate who was killed working on a heavy machine during the oil boom. I'm thinking we're under reporting. 

So it’s to terrify and intimidate. Like most cop behavior.

The old stereotype was “tapping” your taillight w/ the baton & saying “sir, you have a broken taillight”.

A lot of the forensic “sciences” boil down to some dude’s Mark 1 eyeball. Forensic firearms examination (along with other tool mark comparisons) is sketch as well.

Wait so if I drive a regular bulldozer enough I can drive a super bulldozer that bulldozes fire?

And hilariously there are still people who are against body cams. The only reasoning I’ve ever seen anyone use is “they’ll just turn them off” and like, make that a punishable offense then?? There’s literally no reason not to want police officers to have body cams unless you are overtly against holding them…

The irony is that “socialist” countries like Norway actually have higher per-capita incomes, even after taxes, than we do. Plus better health care, happiness, and what have you.

The amount of outright lying exposed by cops since the invention of the bodycam is truly startling. They know they are being recorded, and yet still lie constantly and commit crimes, to the point that basically anything before, say 2010 or thereabouts, we should assume all the cops lied all the time, about everything.…

But don’t you understand, the goverment doing anything for the good of its citizens is SOCIALISM. And half our country is conditioned to think it is always bad and must be stopped!

(shrug) I trust a 101 year old to run the streets better than I trust a 78 year old to run the country...

Sweden does it right. Once you're of retirement age, one of your benefits is that the government will pay for taxis, anywhere you need to go. And they pay fairly, so you aren't waiting forever to find a cab. Senior citizens can get where they need to go in a car-centric society, but they don't have to drive. It's…

I believe that it's possible to hold both these examples as bad at the same time. We don't need to 'both sides' this.

America’s rail / subway infra is atrocious, but I can at least understand many towns / cities are too spread out (another policy failure) to justify it. That said, the lack of decent bus or delivery options for the elderly and disabled is just mean spirited.

it reminds me of those videos of cars sliding on ice and people jumping out instead of allowing seatbelts, airbags, and the metal cage do their job.