#2 I have always stood up for dispatchers. Their stress level is arguably higher than that of police officers. They deal with panicked, hysterical people in distress all day long. Most of the time the situation has calmed by the time officers arrive on scene, often because the dispatchers themselves deescalate the situation over the phone. It takes a special (and intelligent) person to do that well.

The salaries are low, the burnout rate is high. That makes it hard to recruit and retain good dispatchers. This one clearly wasn't cut out for the job. I'll be interested in hearing the audio. I'm sure it will be released soon.

#8 so you want to make this partisan ... .Which party was chanting "Defund the Police?" You do realize dispatchers work for the police department?

The Bible has been banned from public schools for decades. Catch up.

Trump/Putin 101 - accuse your opponent of your own crimes.

People are leaving cali because they accepted they didn't have the skills to compete in the most competitive state in the country. Not everyone can be a winner.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-04-27 01:38 PM | Reply

It has become abundantly clear that Speak Softly was enrolled in "Putin 101". "not everybody can be a winner" sounds like a right wing Capitalist view point to me, thought you were pretending to be a Liberal who cares about people and Democracy? Oops, you are slipping off script. Better check in with your KGB handler for some retraining.

This is all part of the bigger plan to divide Americans, orchestrated by MSM (for clicks) and the Russians (to help America destrpy itself). First they split us into ideological factions, pushing us into our Right Vs Left corners. Then they encourage us to fight about geography. Red States vs Blue States. Next step is war on the ground war. Weren't you paying attention when they started "othering" Ukrainians", then "othering" various regions of Ukraine, turning Ukrainian factions against each other? Now it is a real ground war, between people who think their regions, and their people are superior and the "others" deserve to be eliminated.

Y'all disappoint me, because you are falling right into the trap. We live in the greatest country in the world. Every state in this union has advantages and disadvantages, pros and cons. The beauty is that from sea to shining sea, most of us get to choose which one we live in. If you don't like California, stay the hell in Florida or Connecticut, or wherever suits you, and vice versa. People live in Florida because they like it there. Why do you need to knock down other states, and the people who choose to live there?

It could also be a targeted hit (former lover or business associate) but that is pretty rare.

Gal,
Multiple gunshots to both victims would seem to eliminate the likelihood of murder suicide. Back to robbery as most likely. Armed robbers don't require significant valuables. Most of the time, they are just looking for a little cash or some jewelry or phones they can pawn. Addicts don't look much past their next fix.

" the topic at hand" (not the tip off)

SomJoe, and Angry Dad, once again you want to make the thread about me. Do you have an actual opinion about the tip-off at and , or do you just want to use it as practice for your middle school insults?

"We have no specific information that would lead us to believe that the public in general is at any risk,"

Odd thing to say, but in a town like that he doesn't get much practice. With suspect(s)at large, I would NEVER make a remark like that, as it imparts a false sense of security, and two dead bodies is "specific information" that there is a dangerous person at large.

Maybe there is evidence that it was a known suspect with a personal motive or a targeted "hit". (Still a dangerous person out there, but not preying on general public")

Maybe it's a murder/suicide

Yeah,he beat SoeakSoftly to the punch.

"No one said anything about the inspections themselves costing $4.2 billion as your comments apparently indicate"

Actually, yeah, a lot of people said that, on social media and MSM, implying that the Guvnr directly spent that much on the program That's generally my point, misleading headlines generate false narratives and most people buy into those and never bother to read the articles. This time I called BS and didn't bother to read the article myself. I still think it's BS, just a more nuanced, manufactured firm of BS with spreadsheets.

Yeah Joe, No point in wasting your time with facts. Might interfere with your cop hatin'.

Occams razor says it was a robbery, but y'all will milk it out as a politically motivated racist hit for as long as you can. Then the truth will come out and the story will fade into oblivion like it never happened. ill check back in next week.

They didn't pour the chips on the kid or spank him. Nobody has even alleged that except you.

They didn't pour the chips on the kid or spank him. Nobody has even alleged that.

30 seconds of math told me this entire narrative was BS. So they allegedly spent $4.2 billlion to inspect 1400 trucks. That's $3 million per truck inspection, and falls into the category of too ridiculous to be true. Carry on

30 seconds of math told me this entire narrative was BS. So they allegedly spent $4.2 billlion to inspect 1400 trucks. That's $3 million per truck inspection, and falls into the category of too ridiculous to be true. Carry on

Just to,show you how easily election fraud can take place ... . When I worked on a campaign, I was able to download election data. I used the historical data to score voters on likelihood of voting. For example, 5's were reliable voters and we targeted them with mailings. 0's were registered but had NEVER voted. (That's about 30%) The current data was updated daily and told us whether they had voted early, requested an absentee ballot and whether it had been turned in.. this allowed us to remove people who had already voted from our phone and mailing lists to save resources.

Data includes address, dob, race, gender. Can you see the possibilities for voter fraud there? I sure can. For example,could generate a list of 0's, change their address and request absentee ballots, or in the case of a location with many people like a nursing home, intercept the mail with an partner. Since they never vote, nobody would notice if their ballots are hijacked then deposited into an unattended drop box. That's just ONE way to do it.

Point being, there are holes in the system and we need to close them so we ALL have confidence eve in the integrity of our elections. W

#36 I agree with you on all points in this post. The big issue here for me is the deliberately divisive false narrative spread by the media (and echoed in your post) is the framing of this as racism, that the difference between getting 6 years in jail vs probation was their political party and color of their skin. And there is absolutely no evidence to support that. Different states, different circumstances, and a dataset too small to make statistical comparisons, but by far the biggest factor separating the 6 years from the probation was their acceptance or refusal of a plea bargain. Didnt say it was fair, but it is intellectually dishonest to make that about race..

#33 Holes include the multiple state registrations, for one, the failure to purge dead people from voter rolls in many states. I disagree that 2020 was the most secure in history. I think elections have become less secure over the last few decades. It is inevitable that when you expand opportunities, locations and times to vote, you create a system with additional vulnerabilities for fraud. I have worked on elections, one year as manager of a local campaign, and in other years transporting ballots. The potential for significant fraud is there.

#34 As you mention, many of the "holes" were sewn up by new legislation in various states. Of course Democrats fought tooth and nail against virtually ALL voter ID measures and election security efforts, branding such provisions as suppressive and racist. But now you point to these same provisions as solutions to my concerns? Does this mean you now support voter ID?

#31 I agree, and I have always felt that you should not be punished for exercising your right to go to trial, but if you are guilty, you are gambling

But My point is that the simplistic argument that the sentences were disparate because of race is not supported. They were offered comparable pleas deals but refused them.

Tony,
Nope, I'm in Florida. I registered to vote decades ago and haven't had to provide I'd since. I submitted my request for an absentee ballot on the website. Never had to submit an ID or signature. No ID, no signature required. Every five years or so they make me do it again. Otherwise the ballots keep coming every election. My signature is very inconsistent, so,e times I just scribble. Sometimes I lose track of my absentee ballot and go to,the polls. They have me sign a form saying I didn't submit my absentee ballot and let me vote in person.

Also, to be clear I have never voted for Trump ad I don't believe that election fraud played a significant part in either election. I do, however be,I've the potential exists for it to become a factor in future elections. Even if it does NOT have the potential, the gaping holes in election security erode public confidence on BOTH sides of the political spectrum enough to threaten our faith in the democratic process. We should ALL want strong election security measures in place.

My son is a very far left progressive Liberal, and. I'm damn proud of him.