At least in the case of Michael Brown, you omitted the small, but important word: “allegedly” since the sole eyewitness account directly contradicts the murderer’s responding officer’s testimony.

no. Larger departments may have a longer break-in period, where rookies are attached to a training officer during their shifts, but any meaningful training is over when they swear their oath and get a badge number. If you believe even half the stories, that ride-along period is at best indoctrination into whatever…

Of that meager training time U.S. cops get, a sizeable chunk is squandered on firearms techniques and tactics.

This family is surrounded with handlers, publicists, stylists, personal assistants and domestic staff already, and presumably Caitlynn has at least a barebones campaign staff, and yet nobody is proofreading or focus-grouping (or even reading) any of her statements or talking points before she goes live??

The internet doesn’t deserve the details, that’s for sure, but it would be nice to get some reassurance that tipsters didn’t just return this girl to an abusive home situation. I mean, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time an influencer manipulated their followers or exploited their reach for skeevy purposes.

For appliances and fixtures just be extra careful checking the specs...sometimes commercial equipment uses plumbing or electrical hookups that are not residential standard (e.g. a commercial warewasher will need a water hookup of a specific size and psi, and a commercial oven or microwave may need to be hard-wired,…

Typically only if a) there are sales tax issues or b) there are liquor issues.

Police killed about 1,100 people in 2020 alone (just over 1,000 shot, the rest via other means)...there were only 18 days of the year where a cop didn’t kill somebody, which means most days of the year cops killed a couple people. Only about half the states even have a death penalty any more, so we’re talking about…

There’s got to be ways to revamp routine traffic stops so the cop doesn’t have to get out of their car, at least not right away. Telepresence that connects the officer to the driver via the dashboard or smart phone, a “walk up window” where the cop can process the license, registration, insurance from behind…

One thing that troubles me about this is that they don’t know, or haven’t stated, why the kid was pulled over. The cop calls that in - that’s procedure. They read the license plate to dispatch or put it in the computer, that’s almost the first thing they do, so if the stopped car runs, somebody jumps out and kills the…

Undermining trust in the election process is only part of the agenda here. Giving unfettered access to a group which is basically the GOP’s IT department to voting machines and all the board of elections infrastructure makes it exceedingly easy for future hacks, breaches, sabotage, fraud or any scam intended to…

Really, a cult is like MLM, and the closer you are to the tip of the pyramid, the more you’re an abuser, and less an abused.

If we had stronger legal protections in place for whistleblowers, we’d see fewer “anonymous sources” and comments given “off the record” in journalism, I think.

“Regular people” WILL be there when the billionaires start going. Astronauts work to “pay their own way” doing experiments(even on themselves), repairs, etc. Space Tourists will have to have somebody around to schlepp their stuff, clean up after them, prepare food, run the ship, etc.  No self-respecting PhD or…

I agree that time is a bigger factor than distance or line of sight. It’s only been a tiny fraction of our own history that we’ve had the means and the motivation to monitor space for radio signals, and even our efforts are pretty rudimentary and cover only a small fraction of the total sky across the various possible…

The longer the hospital stay, the more likelihood of nasty critters like this setting up shop.  With a patient in a room they’re never able to be as thorough cleaning and sanitizing as when it’s empty, and since COVID stays seem to be numbered in weeks or months instead of days, I’m actually surprised we haven’t been…

I wish there was a way to ensure Congress understands this stuff before they debate it or vote on it. In that way, the lobbyists and think-tanks have an advantage. The text of new legislation isn’t just being spoon fed to legislators, but the talking points and counterpoints are too.

This is one step of a multi-pronged attack that has all been planned out by conservative think tanks and their dark-money backers. They’re shopping for legislation sponsors and then handing over pre-written bills and a roadmap to passage in exchange for political and financial support.

We don’t vote for president. We vote for electors who’ve said (promised?) to cast THEIR vote for a specific presidential candidate in December. Federal law mainly pertains to the electoral college part of the election, and the Federal Election Commission and Commission on Presidential Debates actually have very little…

You’re not wrong in asking.