“There were no police forces until the mid 19th century and yet the crime rate was no worse than it is now”

“Do you think this guy who has lost 33 years of his life should have to hear you excuse the kind of trash that set him up for a false arrest and conviction?”

One guy remains silent because he fears for his life, and we say we understand it. Another remains silent for the same reason, and it makes him a bad guy. Why? Either fear is an understandable motive for silence or it isn’t. Choose one standard and stick to it.

“A random citizen doesn’t sign up to have knowledge of a crime and have to decide what to do with that knowledge, cops do.”

Let me clarify what I meant by “we condemn cops who make the same decision for the same reason.” I’m using “condemn” as a stronger word than, for example, “fault” or “criticize.” You can fault or criticize someone for not doing something he should’ve done—like coming forward about the crimes of his peers—but we…

There are about 809,000 state and local officers in the United States. That’s 765,000 full-time and 44,000 part-time officers. There are 120,000 full-time law enforcement officers employed by federal agencies. That brings the total number of officers who are armed and allowed to make arrests to 929,000. That’s…

Some cops don’t come forward out of loyalty. Some don’t come forward because they fear for their safety. Remember what happened to Frank Serpico?

We love to say that we’re not a monolith, but if a black person doesn’t like the things that black people are “supposed” to like, then we say that he or she isn’t a real black person. It just makes it easier for people to continue to view us as a monolith.

Of course, unless it’s an outright riot, the media always tells us it’s a peaceful protest. Every gathering short of a melee is a “peaceful protest,” according to CNN. But, if you’re there on the ground, you often see people throwing rocks and bottles at the police, people banging on the hoods and windows of passing…

“The girl involved in the altercation with Raniya has been suspended from school, officials say.”

I heard Belgium is thinking of giving each of them the equivalent of about 3 USD in Tron coin. It’s going to be worth a lot one day! Justin Sun says so.

Well, they would need to “research shit” to determine what amount to write out a check for.

Bootsy’s 3rd Law of the Internet: Whenever someone tells you that he’s not going to read your comment, it means he already did.

I said that biker gangs buy influence. You responded “judges?” It sounded like you were asking if I were saying that bikers buy off judges, and then you were saying that “biker gangs buying off judges” wasn’t the correct answer. So, yeah, I got that it was a Jeopardy reference. I just didn’t get that you were…

But did he stand up for the LGBT community? (No.)

“Or alternately, just white.”

I didn’t say “judges.”

Maybe it’s because they use their money to buy influence instead of a different pair of Jordans for every day of the year.

Maybe it’s because they’re wearing sleeveless leather vests and smell like farm animals.

I agree: the response from the white community regarding the biker incident is much different from the response of the white people in your imagination who want to burn down Chicago over the Jussie Smollett incident.