better to be silent and thought an ass, than make a post and prove it.

No, sounds about right to me.

bleach, please!

As someone who works in a crime lab, trust me when I say ALL criminals are stupid. Some are just more stupid than others.

Like my opinions are the issue and not the experiences that inform those opinions.

Granted, he was a fantastic playmaker on the Suns, but this really makes me lose all respect for him.

Remember when doubling-down on smug, “snarky” constant bitching about white people helped the “progressives” win the Presidential election?

Yeah, me neither.

Not that I am trying to say that this particular mother in this scenario did the right thing in calling the cops on her kid, but my older brother was (is, still) severely troubled and violent, and my younger brother and I had to force our mom to call the cops on him during an argument (she told us to sleep over at a…

Problem is, by and large we reserve force/violence to the police. So even though they aren’t medical practitioners, they’re the only ones with the rights and abilities to really intervene in violence. Abilities being a term used loosely of course...

In some cases, their hands are tied as well. I’m not at all defending those cops who end up making a bad situation worse, or who act unprofessionally, or who use excessive force and whatnot. I just know that there are times when they are required to take someone into custody, even if it’s the “wrong” person, because…

Honestly you can tell just by reading and common sense that their statement was bs. You can tell by their writing that they are anti cop and if they had actual proof they would have linked it with their comment. Yes the police do kill a lot of people but the overwhelming majority of them are justified. Do they need to…

Um....no. Some are evil sure. The vast majority are decent people, and plenty are downright heroes. So stop with the us vs them please.

So, out of curiosity, I did a little research. According to FBI UCR, there are between 14-16000 murders per year (recently anyway).

You beat me to it. My mother was the queen of the shitty parents, and yet I have managed to not allow history to repeat itself with my own daughter. People who use their own shitty upbringing as an excuse to be shitty parents themselves are even worse than the average abusive parent, because they know how it feels to…

That does not mean you have to do the same, to my eyes it means you know how it feels to be abused so you do not go and do the same.

I’m a heavily tattooed woman living in a very affluent part of the country, my husband was constantly is threatening the cops on me when arguing knowing what would mostly come out as a result of my look in this town.

This breaks my heart. My sister in law is a teacher in OTR in Cincinnati and she says she used to cry every day because of the conditions her students would come to school in. These kids don’t even stand a chance.

Researchers say these laws and policing practices disproportionately affect girls, who account for a growing share of juveniles arrested for domestic offenses (38 percent) and simple assaults (37 percent).

One thing this article doesn’t touch on but has been reported as well (my mother has actually had this happen to her):

It takes more than one person to make a political climate.