Are the motorists on the roads you drive to work everyday regularly going 5-10mph over? They certainly do here in LA, and according to anecdotes from others here on Jalopnik over the years in most other places as well, Virginia being the outlier.

As for crime clearance rates:

The point is, community policing itself is the issue. Why do we have cops patrolling the streets? To deter crime? There’s zero correlation between an increase in officers on the street and a drop in crime rates. Zero.

So, instead of having cops trying to fill quotas harassing folks on the streets, we can reduce the…

How many MPH above the posted speed limit is regular traffic flowing at where you live? It’s 5-15PMH above here in LA, unless it’s a traffic jam. And according to anecdotal data here on Jalopnik by other commenters it’s mostly the same all over the US.

As for crime clearance:

I stand by my word to take back “all cops are bad.”

I changed it to ‘almost all cops are bad’, due to your video showing 3 tickets to cops and one arrest.

Why would I have a favorite news person?

Here’s my news mix:

- NYT
- WaPo
- TheRoot
- The Guardian
- BBC
- AlJazeera
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung
- Die Republik
- NZZ
- Mother Jones
- American Conservative
- Economist
- Forbes
- WSJ
- New Yorker
- NYMag

and I’m sure I’m forgetting some.

Your turn.

Whoa. That story is insane.

I don’t really understand your little word salat here.

Hating the free press and being happy at seeing law enforcement violating the 1st Amendment makes you a fascist, yes.

So, that’s 4 examples, 3 of them who got a written ticket (not an arrest).

Them joining the marches aren’t a show of ‘good cops at work’, it’s rather PR for their department. And many of those ‘good cops marching with protesters’ have been seen/filmed afterwards tear gassing peaceful protesters.

I’m fully aware that you’ll likely be able to pull one example somewhere, from the last 30 years, to prove your point. (Though I’m still waiting to see one example).

What’s troubling is that this ‘not all cops are bad’ narrative has seeped through American culture for decades, hampering any efforts to tackle the…

Dude, instead of doing your little ‘blue lives matter’ dance here for hours, you could’ve spent 10 minutes reading about the Defund Police movement:

I’m feeling very generous today:

Now imagine being at the receiving end of these PDs, for generations. Imagine how tiring that is.

They always did, we just finally started to believe those that told us all along.

Found the fascist.

(unless you forgot the /s at the end there).

This is what Defund means:

Show me one example of a cop arresting another cop on the scene for violence, or a cop starting a campaign to oust racist and violent cops from within his/her force?

I’ll wait.

Who’s boyfriend is in jail for defending himself against an intruder at night that killed his girlfriend (intruders were the boys in blue).

Oh, I’m fully aware and have been sharing the Camden model with anyone that asks “but how would you do that?!” but is too lazy to spend five minutes to figure it out on their own.

Thanks!

I’m actually not buying the ‘violence inherent in American DNA’. I think it is a mixture of being told that we’re exceptional (we’re not), never having to pay reparations for the wealth created on the back of slaves (we’ve resisted even the retelling of slavery in history books, ffs) and the hero-ification of law…

You’re aware that many that kneeled with protestors then shot them with tear gas and rubber bullets (big chunky rubber things with metal cores, called ‘less lethal’, as they’re still lethal if fired directly at heads and the like).

It’s a cheap PR stunt. The mainstream media fell for it. You did too.