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No and apparently almost no one else other than people like you are either.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
The words BUSH cannot be mentioned. YOU still talk about stuff from the 60's and 70's like the Wezthermen and attach that to modern day progressives.
It bush just can't be mentioned without having you squeel like the ned Beatty character in deliverance.
Interesting. Just shows how touchy and weak you guys are.
Worst presidency in second half of century. Includes Nixon. Left a mark. Expect to be hearing bout it he rest of your natural life
My god you still bring up the clip to years do you not? You think that has relevance for us but bush is too far in rear view mirror.
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Last line was Clinton years.....that's relevant but bush isn't
You really are a fool,and we really do laugh at you. All we can do really. Sad.Comment
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Then why have you been trying tomsomhard for ....how many pages is it?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Self-aware much?Comment
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settle down tampax - your spitting on the keyboardComment
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But cops shouldn't be. Don't understand why so many localities tolerate this.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Trying? I'm not even working up a sweat.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
One good thing about telling the truth is that you don't need a good memory.Comment
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Maybe that's the problem. Getting hit by a pillow is different that getting hit by a fist. I know that having experienced both.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Gosh, do we really coddle officers during training like that....so we make sure no one gets hurt?
And again, where do we ever see police defend themselves hand to hand ...and come to think of it ....when does an attacker observe marquis de queens bury rules?
Boxing gloves.....excellent training for what you may face in street. Is this why they have to resort to,shooting and tazing.....no one showed them how to effectively defend themselves from someone who attacks in a Mann er different than a kid at the Y can with boxing gloves?
Jeez even I could show them a couple thingsComment
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You miss the point. The test is for what your REACTION will be. Not your fighting skills.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
But I understand that you are ignorant of such things. Not your fault at all.Comment
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Gun control group says since 1963 more Americans have died by firearms than in all U.S. wars
By Sean Gorman on Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 at 1:55 p.m.
During a recent rally at Capitol Square in Richmond, gun control advocates handed out fliers with a grisly statistic.
"Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars," says the brochure, distributed on Jan. 18 by the Virginia Center for Public Safety.
The claim is familiar to PolitiFact; it’s been vetted by our colleagues in the national office twice over the years. We decided to take a new look through the lens of the latest available data.
War casualties
The most comprehensive list we found on U.S. war dead was compiled in January 2015 by the Congressional Research Service. It included casualties from the Revolutionary War through Operation Inherent Resolve, which is targeting the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria.
The number of U.S. dead in all those conflicts comes to nearly 1.2 million, according to the research service.
We should add a qualifier here: The research service says that during the Civil War, the nation’s deadliest conflict, Union and Confederate losses combined were 525,000 to 530,000. But a 2012 study by a Binghamton University historian estimated the combined toll was much higher -- about 750,000.
If we use that higher Civil War figure, it would bring the total U.S. deaths in military conflicts to about 1.4 million.
Gun deaths
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a series of hard figures and estimates of yearly gunfire deaths in the U.S. from 1968 to 2014. They add up to about 1.5 million fatalities.
The Virginia Center for Public Safety’s claim on gun deaths goes back a little bit further, to 1963. We couldn’t find figures going back to that year, since the oldest year for which data were available was 1968. A CDC chart shows 24,000 gun deaths occurred that year.
With that in mind, the figure of 1.5 million deaths since November 1963 surely is an underestimate of the level of gun violence since then, because it excludes four years. The actual number probably is close to 1.6 million.
A key thing to know about these figures: They include not just murders but all gun deaths. In 2013, according to CDC data, 63 percent of gun deaths were suicides; 33 percent were homicides; and the rest were from accidents, legal interventions and undetermined causes.
Our ruling
The Virginia Center for Public Safety says that since 1963, more Americans have been killed by gunfire than have been killed in all U.S. wars.
Figures going back to 1968 show about 1.5 million firearms deaths have occurred since then. That doesn’t include data from gun deaths from 1963 to 1967, years for which figures aren’t available, so this is a conservative estimate on firearms deaths since Kennedy was assassinated.
In contrast, a high-side figure for U.S. war deaths shows that about 1.4 million service members have been killed in conflicts.
So we rate the claim True.
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Isn't it just easier to shoot someone in the back while they are running away from you? Do you practice that at the academy or do you learn that on the job?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
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Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams To Block Audio, Records Show
By Mark Konkol and Paul Biasco | January 27, 2016 5:33am
CHICAGO — Why are so many police dashcam videos silent?
Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And sometimes, dashcam systems didn’t have any microphones at all, DNAinfo Chicago has learned.
Police officials last month blamed the absence of audio in 80 percent of dashcam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”
A DNAinfo Chicago review of more than 1,800 police maintenance logs sheds light on the no-sound syndrome plaguing Police Department videos — including its most notorious dashcam case.
Maintenance records of the squad car used by Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald, and his partner, Joseph Walsh, show monthslong delays for two dashcam repairs, including a long wait to fix “intentional damage.”
On June 17, 2014, police technicians reported fixing a dashcam wiring issue in police vehicle No. 6412, the squad shared by Van Dyke and Walsh, about three months after it was reported broken, records show.
A day later, the same vehicle's dashcam system was reported busted again. It took until Oct. 8, 2014, to complete repairs of what technicians deemed “intentional damage,” according to reports.
Just 12 days later, on Oct. 20, 2014, dashcam video recorded from squad car No. 6412 on the night Van Dyke shot and killed McDonald did not record audio. The video that went viral showing Van Dyke killing Laquan was taken from a different squad car, but it, too, had no audio.
And on Nov. 21, 2014, a review of 10 videos downloaded from Van Dyke's squad car dashcam determined it was “apparent … that personnel have failed to sync the MICs [sic],” police records show.
Van Dyke has been charged with first-degree murder in Laquan's shooting. And Walsh, who filed reports backing up Van Dyke’s version of events that didn’t jibe with the video of the shooting, has been placed on desk duty as criminal and disciplinary investigations continue.
Four other police vehicles at Laquan's shooting scene that had dashcam systems also failed to record audio. Only two of the five vehicles had dashcams that actually captured video.
The dashcam in police vehicle No. 8489, shared by officers Thomas Gaffney and Joseph McElligott the night of Laquan's shooting, recorded 37 “event videos” in October 2014, and had an operational dashcam the night of the shooting. But “due to disk error” no video was recorded at the shooting scene, according to police reports.
Police maintenance records show a request to repair the dashcam in that squad car was made Oct. 15, 2014 — five days before Laquan's shooting. Yet, on Oct. 31, 2014, technicians found “no problems” with the equipment.
A week later, the dashcam system was reported broken again. Repairs to a “hardware failure” were completed more than four months later, police records show.
Police vehicle No. 8756 had a working dashcam that recorded 124 “event videos” in October 2014 without a single request for maintenance that month.
But on the night of Laquan's shooting, the vehicle assigned to Arturo Bacerra and Leticia Valez reportedly had a “power issue” and the dashcam was “not engaged.”
It wasn’t until Nov. 23 that a repair request was issued for that squad car’s dashcam. Less than two weeks later, technicians reported, “no problems found,” police records show.
No microphones
Between Sept. 1, 2014, and July 16, 2015, maintenance technicians assigned to troubleshoot and repair dashcam systems reported 90 incidents where no microphones were found in squad cars, according to police logs.
Another 13 inspections during that period turned up only one microphone in squad cars that were supposed to be equipped with two audio recording devices, according to the logs.
On 30 occasions, technicians who downloaded dashcam videos found evidence that audio recording systems either had not been activated or were “intentionally defeated” by police personnel, the records show.
It wasn’t until the absence of sound on the videos from Laquan's shooting that problems with dashcam systems came to light.
Police officials quickly placed the blame on officers and shift supervisors responsible for making sure dashcam systems work properly before officers go on patrol.
In December, interim Police Supt. John Escalante warned the rank and file that they would be disciplined for failing to follow proper dashcam protocol. Weeks later, he followed through by hitting some officers and supervisors with formal reprimands and up-to-three-day suspensions.
“To boil this down, the Police Department will not tolerate officers maliciously destructing equipment,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
“Supt. Escalante sent a very clear message and has held people accountable. And since we took that corrective action, we have seen a more than 70 percent increase in the amount of [video] uploads at the end of each tour … and that is being audited weekly with reports sent to the superintendent.”
Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo has called Escalante’s punishment of the rank and file over dashcam video disrepair an attempt to deflect blame away from the Police Department and City Hall.
“How they determine that it’s purposely caused damages, I’d like to know,” Angelo said last month. “How they can figure out what is mechanical or what is human error, I’d like to know.”Comment
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It has become so obvious that life in urban areas would be unicorns and rainbows without police around. These areas and residents are some of the finest people this nation has to offer and really don't need policing at all. Pull police out of these areas and we will see just how wonderful mankind can be.
I am pretty sure Baltimore is a prime example of this and it should be spread to all states.Comment
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No, we need police. Just not the killing, lying ones.Comment
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