It's almost like maybe we don't need to spend more money on defense than the next 26 countries combined.

Because police can't patrol a neighborhood without profiling people? What?

I'm not sure if it will result in less police officers patrolling in black neighborhoods. I think it will lead to a decline in unwarranted stops in those communities. Basically a decline in people being stopped for their skin tone rather than an actually reason to be stopped.

Yep because "those communities" are so violent. No murder in Ferguson in over a year. Guess who caused 3 in a row?

Please change your handle to "Idiotwithcomputer" so we know what kind of imbecility we are about to peruse under it.

Yes. Racial profiling is not about describing a suspect in an active criminal investigation. It's about singling out people based on the color of their skin as the sole basis for whether or not to engage in interaction with them, such as stop and frisk. The idea that ending this hideously racist practice will end the…

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THIS HAS SHATTERED MY TRUST IN THE ST. LOUIS POLICE DEPARTMENT!

I think the more relevant question is why Mark needed a statistician to multiply 5.4 minutes by 10,000 guys.

Five-hundred twenty-five thousand six-hundred weiners! Five-hundred twenty-five thousand gallons of lube...

I feel like all the tallying here, figuring out minutes and days and all, BEGS for a new number for "Rent." Seasons of Schlong, perhaps?

Madison is one of my former students! This makes my heart so happy to see this. I see lots of comments about how her parents must be doing the right thing; her Mom is a single parent, so it's a feminist AND urban education win!

This quote was one of the saddest things that she's said, imo. It's a little subtle compared to a lot of what she's said about that day. But it just made my heart sink.

I know that the abused like to protect their abusers, however, I find Jezebel's take (I can't use reporting as the author's opinions color the account) on the issue lacking any belief in Janay. Janay said this had never happened before, she does not think it was okay, and thinks heavy drinking played a role. Just…

"When it was my turn to speak, I said I regretted my role in the incident." Ok, you slap your husband (and that's not okay) and that's justification for him to knock your ass out and and drag you out of an elevator like so much garbage? Not okay x 10.

I hate all of this. On the one hand, yeah, Ray Rice and Goodell are shits. On the other hand, Janay's public identity will forever be domestic violence victim at the exclusion of pretty much everything else in her life, and I don't blame her for not wanting to embrace that. Sure, it's ultimately Ray Rice who put her…

"Low standards" comes across as judgemental and unkind, but I agree with the other things you have said.

I asked him what happened when we got out of the elevator. He told me he was terrified because security was there.

Why on earth would he be entitled to a severance package? He quit.