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"One America News: It was so refreshing!" -- Mike Gundy

 

Keith Hernandez.

 

That's how I feel about the National Treasure series.

Complete piffle but fun as hell.

The moment I saw the assmunch from The Hangover I knew I was in for a ride.

 

Roger was the second spitter.

 

Howard Beale lives

 

This is why I can’t stand american politics and how it is covered. Trump can say “I’m for law and order,” and nobody asks him if there’s anything that could or should be done differently.
Democrats are burdened with “defund the police,” and they are stuck with that, no matter how much nuance and explanation they put into it.
So to many voters, the choice is “law and order” or “defund the police”

 

Nobody blinked when the GOP put abolishing the IRS in their freaking PLATFORM.

 

Polls so far indicate differently. Majorities believe police abuses are commonplace and want them stopped. That's not "defund the police" but it's not "law and order" either.

 

It really surprises me that so many of the reforms being suggested haven't been in place for years: chokeholds, a national data base of bad cops, more transparency.

 

The issue with the database of bad cops is complicated, I'm guessing, because there are so many jurisdictions. Thousands.
Would local governmental participation in such a database would be an issue that unions could successfully oppose or complicate? I have no idea. Curious.

 

Pretty much all of these departments are getting good amounts of state or federal funding. Make them participate in the database, or cut the funding. They're already supposed to be doing things like tracking crime statistics anyway, although as "The Wire" illustrated pretty clearly, it's often easy to reclassify those crimes when needed.

 

The thing about the idea of a national database is a lot of jurisdictions don't currently report things to existing ones.

There's a national Use of Force one run by the FBI, that only 40 percent of jurisdictions report to it. It's voluntary though.

The FBI's Hate Crimes Database reporting is required. It still doesn't get 100 percent participation - from other Federal organizations.

There's a national ballistics database that could help solve crimes by tracing firearms off their ballistic patterns on bullets and shell casings. Only two state are required to participate.