Connecticut law now does not provide "qualified immunity". This needs to exist everywhere as well. While I'm a pro-union person, police unions in general should not be defending their members: their employer (the municipality) should. That would change the enforcement of rules and consequences pretty quick.
P.S. - All those retirements and resignations from police forces the unions predicted didn't happen here.
Any compensation money comes out of the cop's pocket. And if they still owe after they have sold their house, car, personal belongings etc, any shortfall comes out of the police pension fund.
I remember when SR wrote about this before. It was/is/will be horrendous. There was a video as I recall that showed this woman and her small child driving up to a blockade in her neighborhood she was not expected and, naturally enough, stopped and turned around - which made the cops insane it would seem. What was she supposed to do? I can easily imagine myself doing exactly the same thing.He is right. We should keep exactly this front and center in our minds so we don't forget what we are dealing with here and what the issue is.
"White people are told that the police have to treat “those places” this way or crime will skyrocket and “thugs” will invade their suburban areas."
I will say that I grew up in a lily-white suburb in the 1970s and 1980s. The vision of the big city, as communicated on TV, was: buildings that are showing their age, everything's dirty and covered with graffiti, and everyone on the streets is probably tougher than you are. It took a little bit of time at college (Cleveland State University, in the middle of downtown Cleveland) to shake that perception. These days I'll drive through parts of Cleveland that would have worried me in my youth, and I'm like, "nah, this is fine, it's just older buildings, but people here are just trying to go about their business".
In the 80s and early 90s, there was an actual rising urban violent crime rate, which has since gone down. I'm not sure how many white people have gotten the message.
It's a shame our fourth estate can only focus on, at most, two things at a time. Right now, it's covid and GOP election fuckery and there's no time or space for coverage of egregious criminal behavior by police and the ongoing suffering of their Black victims.
MSM nightly newscasts always seem to end with feel-good stories. How about instead, every night, use that time to follow up on stories like this one.
Black America’s relationship with the police is: You have to go out and buy cigarettes that you don’t smoke. You bring them back someone else gets to nic fix you get all the smoke in your face and you do the dying from the cancer.
My only quibble here again is that we need to accept that even with the best messaging, the police unions will oppose us every step of the way and they have the support of most of law enforcement.
Even benign statements such as “end police brutality” or “reimagine public safety” are interpreted as attacks on the police. Cops more often than not believe their extreme actions are justified to save their lives and protect the public. I don’t know how you break through that.
I’m not defending a specific slogan, but at the same time, I think we do need to concede that what we’re hoping to see is a top-down structural change in law enforcement. That’s huge and not easy.
Maybe the police hope if they stretch this out long enough, people will forget, which is why I keep writing about it. I'm never going to forget.
This is the best possible reason to keep writing about something you've covered before. I know I'll be reading everything you write on this gang assault.
seconded!!!!!!
I don't know ... sports ball athletes get taken advantage of as much as anyone and need to make sure they are properly compensated.
This is especially true considering how short careers are in many sports and the long terms cost of some injuries.
Anytime I see random capitalization on top of a canned slogan one eyebrow goes way up!
I've been trained by Trump's tweets
well for an adult, but the desire of a child to listen to it is unbounded.
that is a recognized phenomena :)
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Connecticut law now does not provide "qualified immunity". This needs to exist everywhere as well. While I'm a pro-union person, police unions in general should not be defending their members: their employer (the municipality) should. That would change the enforcement of rules and consequences pretty quick.
P.S. - All those retirements and resignations from police forces the unions predicted didn't happen here.
Any compensation money comes out of the cop's pocket. And if they still owe after they have sold their house, car, personal belongings etc, any shortfall comes out of the police pension fund.
"Reform" is too weak a term. We've been doing "reform" for years now, but it doesn't stop police abuse.
I honestly do not know what the right slogan should be.
I remember when SR wrote about this before. It was/is/will be horrendous. There was a video as I recall that showed this woman and her small child driving up to a blockade in her neighborhood she was not expected and, naturally enough, stopped and turned around - which made the cops insane it would seem. What was she supposed to do? I can easily imagine myself doing exactly the same thing.He is right. We should keep exactly this front and center in our minds so we don't forget what we are dealing with here and what the issue is.
"White people are told that the police have to treat “those places” this way or crime will skyrocket and “thugs” will invade their suburban areas."
I will say that I grew up in a lily-white suburb in the 1970s and 1980s. The vision of the big city, as communicated on TV, was: buildings that are showing their age, everything's dirty and covered with graffiti, and everyone on the streets is probably tougher than you are. It took a little bit of time at college (Cleveland State University, in the middle of downtown Cleveland) to shake that perception. These days I'll drive through parts of Cleveland that would have worried me in my youth, and I'm like, "nah, this is fine, it's just older buildings, but people here are just trying to go about their business".
In the 80s and early 90s, there was an actual rising urban violent crime rate, which has since gone down. I'm not sure how many white people have gotten the message.
It's a shame our fourth estate can only focus on, at most, two things at a time. Right now, it's covid and GOP election fuckery and there's no time or space for coverage of egregious criminal behavior by police and the ongoing suffering of their Black victims.
MSM nightly newscasts always seem to end with feel-good stories. How about instead, every night, use that time to follow up on stories like this one.
Black America’s relationship with the police is: You have to go out and buy cigarettes that you don’t smoke. You bring them back someone else gets to nic fix you get all the smoke in your face and you do the dying from the cancer.
My only quibble here again is that we need to accept that even with the best messaging, the police unions will oppose us every step of the way and they have the support of most of law enforcement.
Even benign statements such as “end police brutality” or “reimagine public safety” are interpreted as attacks on the police. Cops more often than not believe their extreme actions are justified to save their lives and protect the public. I don’t know how you break through that.
I’m not defending a specific slogan, but at the same time, I think we do need to concede that what we’re hoping to see is a top-down structural change in law enforcement. That’s huge and not easy.
Maybe the police hope if they stretch this out long enough, people will forget, which is why I keep writing about it. I'm never going to forget.
This is the best possible reason to keep writing about something you've covered before. I know I'll be reading everything you write on this gang assault.