The figure at any rate is far too low.

Finally a case where I can be on both sides.

Yes. This map is slightly dated (NY, for instance added a prohibition in 2019), but here’s the states that as of recently did not have laws preventing officers from engaging in such practices.

It bears repeating that while the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act criminalizes any sexual relationship between officials and inmates because inmates cannot legally give staff consent, FindLaw was reporting as recently as the end of 2019 that 32 states were still allowing police to have supposedly consensual sex with…

I’m sorry, but if those kids get up and testify against their father, that reeks of manipulation. 

Of course the murders of the disabled and neurodiverse are tragedies that always are inevitable in their eyes.

Sad, sad, sad. Mr. Sutherland’s death was totally preventable and not necessary. Why were they even Tasing him? As a woman suffering from depression, anxiety and ptsd, this really makes me even more nervous and mistrustful of the police.

Good lord you estimate people highly!

There’s no better than a young Russ.

The officer strikes me as someone who probably showed up at his interview and every day of work totally hung over so no one can really tell if he’s drunk or just like that.

Where non-federal police are involved, the president has significantly less power to EO anything.

Who knows, maybe he and she had a heart-to-heart phone call or something.  Something inspired his action to relent on her, but I don’t get to judge him for that.

If they found some twisted Silence of the Lambs style sadist who chained a stranger in the basement in conditions near to this, with constant threat of beatings and rape, food and water in a dog’s bowl, it would get some headlines. But if there’s a thousand in that pit of a basement, and on top of the violence and…

It isn’t who I am either.

I think the dad handled it well.

Opening your door when there’s a disturbance outside should never ever be considered probable cause for a search. And that’s on top of the insane bullshit where cops don’t give a shit if black folx are naked, and even giving ludicrous fucking advice like “don’t sleep naked.”

a police chief spoke to him a month after the incident and told him that he shouldn’t sleep naked.

I believe the author is pointing out that this is typical behavior of white men and that Sen. Harris should not have to deal with such behavior. I am not a black woman, but I have seen enough and witnessed such behavior from white men for so long that it is considered normal and an inherent right. This is all bullshit…

October surprise, or October hoax?

Imagine paying upwards of $250K just to catch a potentially fatal and debilitating disease.