You missed the biggest reason why you shouldn’t talk to police or ever consent to a search. They will steal your stuff.

Bingo. Every single person I’ve seen give the “politely but firmly refuse permission for a search” advice is always white (as am I). And it definitely doesn’t work for city folk, white or Black, in the rural South.

This is why a “no” or “I don’t consent” is always the answer.

There are over 45k pages of federal laws on the books. I have no idea how many state laws exist in each state.

their job is not to exonerate you or prove your innocence, their job is to catch people who have committed crimes.

1. don’t be darker than suntan. Need I say more?

THANK YOU, that “know your rights,”  nonsense does not apply to anyone non white and in some areas doesn’t even apply to white people. So yeah YMMV.

No, I get that. I just have a very defeatist outlook when it comes to dealing with the cops. Either they’re nice and there’s no problem, or they’re assholes. And if they’re fishing, asking to look in my car, they’re assholes. The thing is, I have an anxiety disorder and in the moment, my mind goes to the worst case…

Shouldn’t this really be split up into 2 parts, depending on your skin colour?

They cannot prolong the stop for the purpose of getting a k9 search onsite unless they have reasonable suspicion. If you get pulled over, turn on your phone camera and leave it running (don’t point it in the cop’s face, I usually film the rear view mirror showing the cop getting out of their car, while I audibly note…

Worth noting that COVID deaths, in a group that was relentlessly anti-vaccine, were double the number of deaths from all other causes *combined* for active-duty law enforcement.

On the other hand, while it’s probably nowhere near the top 100 most dangerous jobs, I’d be inclined to say that it’s among the top 10 most…

“Policing is a difficult, dangerous job”

But something about the news itself smells fishy.

As a PAX Enforcer this is obviously tragic news. I would like to urge people in the comments to refrain from blaming this person, a real person who is now dead, for her illness and death.

either most things in life occur on a bell curve of probability

“Typical” does not mean “in every single case”.

The incubation period for Omicron can be as little as 48 hours before you start showing symptoms, and the new omicron variants are getting past immunity more and more.

I don’t know what the solution is though.

She was, the show itself has a mandate and show staff are subject to that mandate as well.

I mean, the “solution” is to not have the lowest vaccination of any developed nation besides Russia and maintaining protocols until cases are next to non-existent instead of the rollercoaster of giving up the fight right as we’re turning the corner like firefighters that start packing up when they’ve got the open…