I am actually surprised he chose her. Being a prosecutor, and one that merger held the police accountable is the third rail right now. I was actually betting he was going to go with the mayor of Atlanta. Not as experienced, and lesser known, but less baggage, and brings in a wider swath of voters being from the south. Locking up California was done decades ago.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Candidate Harris. I just think the research being done into every case that happened within earshot of her when she was a prosecutor is going to produce some serious mud to sling.

#88. The operative words are "not very many." This is a low percentage play. But "death by a thousand cuts" is a real thing. Especially in terms of votes. This coupled with other efforts only has to tip a few votes in a few areas to affect the outcome. Sad to see Kanye allowing himself to be used this way.

That said, like every other American, he has the right to run. It's just a matter of what impact that running has. We'll know in just a couple months.

I love this "fat federal pension" meme I see all the time. My cousin is a federal employee. The federal pension system pays 1% per year of employment. The average retirement under FERS (by far the largest sector of government workers) is $1,834 per month. 22k per year. That's hardly "fat."

If the businesses made it mandatory in their stores, anybody without a mask would be trespassing, call the police, and have them arrested. Problem solved.

That said, I did think it should be mandatory everywhere, but until the governors or POTUS decides to do that, they gave the power to do it themselves for the real estate they control.

This article dives deep into the origins of the virus.

Yes it started in China, but that didn't necessitate the racist and divisive "chinese virus" claims. Viruses exist all over, mutate all over, and yes, even escape from labs all over. Scapegoating is unnecessary, but tracking the origin is important to see how it spread and why.

Why don't they make it mandatory for their stores nationwide? They have the power to do that.

My only question is: what marketing? I have never seen a television ad, or heard a radio spot, or had gun advertisements come up on my internet feeds. I guess they just buy as space in gun lover magazines? I don't get those because I couldn't care less about guns.

Never thought I would see the day where that idiot Snyder came to his senses.

Perhaps snoofy I should posta link to every time as n officer rescues someone? Would that be an indication that the whole system is perfect? I can do that for every case of a police officer acting poorly. You can't have it both ways. If you want to throw up examples of bad cop behavior and say it shows the whole system is screwed up, then all the good stories must be an inducing the system is perfect....

The truth like with allay all things, the answer is somewhere in the middle. I think the system works as intended except in a small number of heinous and egregious cases. The facts that lead to them should be examined whenever they happen and changes made to ensure they don't happen again.

Youb want to destroy the system.

#80. I completely they agree that they should.

Snoofy. The system has allowed racism in its ranks for too long and in to great a degree. That is not a testament to a broken system, but the wrong people managing it in SOME instances. That needs to change.

Removing the protections police officers need in order to do their job effectively, is not the answer.

Much more civilian oversight, out of the hands of the police department, is the best solution. Not gutting their bedrock protections. We will see MANY more retirements of guys that wouldn't have normally retired this early in their careers.

And again, you are being obtuse. Taylor doesn't live in Houston. So again, you have no evidence that all evidence points to 288 acceptable and reasonable uses of force.

#71 please. You can't tell me that you weren't arguing about the justice system as whole, the suddenly wanted to break it up when you knee you couldn't win in that garbage..... And then to bring up as an example a 30 to 40 year old cass I've never heard of, and no one that worked there at the time is likely to still be there?

Weird.

And that does absolutely nothing to address wether or not the use of force in any or all of those cases was completely justified.

There is a difference between the use of force in say the George Floyd, and say Rayshard Brooks cases....

Are those goal posts heavy? You're trying to move them to argue now that there are certain systems that might be corrupt.... By region?. Let me know when those goal posts are getting cemented in.....

#64. No I'm not sure. That's why I said thank you for the link so I can look into it. Take the victory with some grace. I'm not afraid to be admit I was wrong.

#65. Please. Now you're just being obtuse for the sake of being an axehole. Do you have a number that proves the entire system is corrupt and we can discount the thousands of clean cases traversing the system? Any number you or I say would be a joke. Be better....

#60. I don't know what the number is. But for each case of corruption you cite, their are literally thousands of clean cases traveling the courts, from tickets to murders, to international drug smuggling.

The system needs to get better at finding corruption and disposing of it, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater, ain't it.

And these moves..... And bringing it back around to the crux of this article's...
is driving out good cops because are being persecuted by rash decisions that will endanger them.

#59 interesting. Not sure how they justified that then. I didn't pay attention to the case. Looks like I need to read further into it.

I appreciate the link

#56. Can it be improved?. Of course. But to say the system is corrupt based on the actions in one case or even a few cherry picked cases of obviously corrupt cops doesn't prove what you think it does.

#54. Thats funny. No. Over a dozen years ago I went corporate. Sold my soul or something like that.

Snoofy. I looked up the statutes I needed. Title 18 USC 3056. Look it up.

And yes establishing a federal secure zone that is mobile around a President is legal. And no the service wouldn't be large enough to enforce it by themselves so would naturally turn to the police force responsible for Lafayette Park right across the street from the WH

Sorry to interrupt your pre mature gloat

Oh sorry you quoted it. Nice try though, but there are no DAs in the federal system.

Try again. I Gave a hint up thread.

"In addition, often when the department and/or city is sued, there is no citizen complaint filed. The case eventually is settled with no admission of wrong doing and life goes on.;

Can you prove that?

And yes I know it's from 2002. Didn't have time to do a deep Google dive

#41. Damn gramps. Take some Metamucil....

#43. I'd actually be very curious to see what the indictment rate is for cops versus non cops.

#40 now take it to the point where you prove its because of bias. That's a bold thinly veiled charge of corruption.