Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Can we do anything about school shootings?

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Database of shootings.  Everytown (Bloomberg org) on school shootings . Other tabs have more info, but need to dig.  Researchers found comm...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Big new vision for what the US should be

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I haven't been posting, but I've been very active following the huge news events in the US, where the covid pandemic and Black Lives...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Overview and link dump for US demonstrations and riots

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(Catching up on posts started a while ago. This one originally written around 6/9/20.) George Floyd, a very tall, robust black man, was kill...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

A rapist

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Brock Turner, a pretty white boy, former student at Stanford University and former swim champion, raped an unconscious woman he picked up at...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Our American gun culture

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I've thought about guns all my adult intellectual life, which actually started at age 12-13. I've observed the American cultural tra...
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Sunday, December 3, 2017

December links

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I collected a bunch of links in November but didn't get to write about them. Here they are. As usual, an interesting bunch. White nati...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

November links

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I lost a bunch of links, and had a bunch more before the two bombshells of the DNC paying for the Steele dossier and being totally under Cli...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Do we need a Megan's Law for bathrooms?

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I read how Texas is considering a law governing how transgender people can use public bathrooms. It occurred to me that Texas isn't deb...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Real massacres versus fake news

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Fake massacres should be news for just a short time--as long as it takes to refute, debunk, and search for the origins of the false story. R...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Short: Experts discuss a shooting

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This is the kind of information we should get about all major shootings. It's a discussion by a group of experts , kind of like the anal...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Four stories on the Dallas shootings

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I'm deeply saddened by the shooting of police in Dallas during a friendly, non-violent protest against police shootings elsewhere. We...
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The way of a charlatan

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This is from the book I'm currently reading on my kindle. It's about growing up in Nazi Germany: "Smart question, my boy. Ou...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Devastating: Victim statement in the Stanford rape

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A fair amount has been written about the convicted rapist in this case, and how his sentence was too short. Not enough has been written abou...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

Skewed news on violent protests

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What do you imagine when you see headlines like this? Protesters chase and attack Trump supporters after San Jose rally Violence erupts...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Another 'Cops should be perfect' story

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I'm so incredibly tired of people defending assailants who shoot at the police. Here's the latest : Police: Cops Fired Into Car N...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Analysis of the Cincinnati shooting video

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Earlier this month, a security officer for the University of Cincinnati shot and killed an unarmed driver during a traffic stop. The officer...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Last outpost of crazy: 3000 year old police force

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Would you support or join this police force ? "The Masonic Fraternal Organization is the oldest and most respected organization in th...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

My bias regarding police

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I tend to be biased toward believing a police officer's account in a controversy. However that doesn't mean my bias is rigid--I abso...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thoughts on the Ferguson shooting: No indictment

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I agree with the grand jury's decision not to indict the policeman who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. For what it's worth, that...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

What safety training do police get?

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With the shooting in Ferguson and other frequent shootings by police, I have to wonder what kind of training police are getting. Are they tr...