It’s an interesting job because most cops view it simply as a job in which they are put upon employees. That’s not the case. They are extensions of the state and manifestations of potential state violence. As such they have a duty to the citizenry that means self-preservation has to be secondary at best. The…

Yeah this notion that police are routinely encountering people who, despite being shot at close range, are still active threats is hard to swallow. Having watched innumerable videos of police-involved shootings, I’ve yet to see these amped up zombies come after any of these dear cops. Maybe that’s because the cops…

A friend of mine got married a few years back and it took him less than a year to start trying to make me feel inadequate for not being married. Couched it as concern, said he was worried I’d end up alone. I was 33.

I’m not particularly into the pop musics so it took me years to realize people /weren’t/ talking about Bryan Adams every time they invoked Ryan Adams. I was always a bit surprised the Robin Good guy had made a comeback more than 20 years on.

Prior to Sessions, there were regularly more than a dozen ongoing DOJ pattern-or-practice investigations throughout the country. Policing really is a universal problem in the US. How many PDs have been required to operate under a consent decree? There were 14 in force when he put an end to the practice. 

That’s true in a very vague and generalized sense but most major metropolitan police forces have the same issues as the Chicago PD. It’s not at all unique to Chicago even if the context around Chicago might to some degree be. These issues are endemic to this form of policing, not any one police force. 

Have you read The End of Policing by Vitale? I’d suggest there have been few meaningful or positively impactful reforms in American policing since its inception. Reading the Ferguson Report and the DOJ’s report on the Chicago PD reinforces that notion. As a Chicagoan, the entire history of the Chicago PD is a…

To be fair, law enforcement in the U.S. has always been a tool of white supremacist terror and violence so I’m not sure anyone has ruined anything recently. We just need to eradicate policing in its current form.

She’s in her mid-late forties. It's a bit young for grandkids but not /too/ young. Entirely plausible. 

What’s a "70's smirk"? 

She’s a pre- pre- pre- lawyer, dontcha know. To be fair to her she has a better record on having clemency petitions granted than literally any other non-lawyer but her celebrity, rather than her legal acumen, was responsible for that. It’s nice to see that Sweden’s democracy doesn’t also have a separate set of rules…

As someone living in Chicago, I can say that anyone who employs “flyover country” is an insular moron masquerading as cosmopolitan.

Obvious how? Her low polling? The lack of real interest in her and her policy positions?

Kamala Harris has no chance, sorry

What image does it “give the city”? A man made up a hate crime in which his attackers said he was in MAGA country. In Chicago of all places. The political sideshow aside, Smollett is the one who looks bad here. He might have wanted to better understand where he was before he staged an attack that may have made sense…

But 6 would have done nicely for the GD. 13 is more than you'll ever need in a group. 

How was you're weekend? 

Not common enough to justify the deaths of many millions more through easy access to firearms. 

This is a very weird comment and I have no idea how it relates to mine. Sorry for your experiences but maybe you meant to direct it at a different comment.

How common are “home invasions”? By one armed man, by a one-armed man, or otherwise?