[Blue Lives Matter] Atlanta, GA ‐ Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields announced on Friday that, effective immediately, the Atlanta Police Department has a "no-chase policy."
Chief Shields faced off with reporters after an internal email she sent out to the entire police department on Friday morning was leaked to the media.
In the email, the chief pointed to the failure of the judicial system as a key reason for changing the department’s chase policy, WGCL reported. A 'judicial system' based on white man's law is obviously destined to fail.
She told reporters the same thing.
"I don’t want to see us cost someone their life in pursuit of an auto theft person or a burglar when the court’s not even going to hold them accountable," Chief Shields said. "I mean how can we justify that? And I think we are better than that."
"It goes back to the repeat offender issue," the chief continued. "Okay, we get the person in custody and we look at how many times have we arrested them?"
"If nothing is happening to the individuals when we’re locking them up, and yet we’re absorbing this level of risk and liability ‐ I mean that just is not a good business model. I’d rather we put better emphasis on our investigative techniques," she told reporters.
Critics have called the policy change a knee-jerk reaction to criticism of the police department’s handling of incidents where civilians were seriously hurt or killed by suspects driving at high speeds to evade police, WGCL reported.
The chief explained that Atlanta PD having a restrictive chase policy was nothing new.
"Just to summarize, we’ve had a restrictive pursuit policy for many years... but we’ve had a few incidences when the officers are rightfully pursuing ‐ they’re in line with state law, they’re in line with policy ‐ but the pursuit itself is just not essential. Not given the risk reward that goes with engaging in a pursuit. And I just feel as though we need to step back and make the policy even more restrictive," Chief Shields said.
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I’d rather we put better emphasis on our investigative techniques," she told reporters.
So, you want to investigate them but not catch them, that right? Figure that's the way to protect your income stream with no risk from not doing your job?
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Next comes the re-definition of 'flee'. Does the scu, uh, alleged perp have to run? Isn't that in and of itself stereotyping? Does rapid walking or a modest stroll qualify? How about waiting for public transport? Certainly that would indicate intent to relocate and after all you can't simply conjure a bus. Good idea all around.
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Flee = moving in any direction that takes the alleged away from the site of the alleged cri- infringement. Includes walking, scootering, crawling, riding in a rickshaw, sliding down a hill on a cafeteria tray, etc
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Reapers with Hellfires could solve the issue quite nicely. Honestly, any criminal convicted more than 3 times for felonies should be culled. N2 works, or H2S if you feel mean. Or 12 Gauge. Or a sledgehammer.
[The Federalist] It’s almost unheard of that schools would ever say no to a large financial donation, especially when it aims to help economically disadvantaged children to go to college. However, Dulwich College and Winchester College, two private universities in the United Kingdom, recently denied such a donation. Both turned down more than £1 million for poor white boys, out of the concern the donation might fall afoul of Britain’s Equality Act of 2010.
The generous donor was 96-year-old Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites, who attended both schools on scholarships, and taught at Winchester for decades. He learned from his experiences that a good education is the best means to uplift children from disadvantaged backgrounds and provide upward economic mobility. He wanted to help poor white boys especially, because they are disproportionately at the bottom of Britain’s education system.
POOR WHITE BOYS ARE IN DIRE STRAITS
Even the U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) acknowledged in 2014 that being born a white male in Britain doesn’t necessary confer any privilege, because "white pupils from poorer backgrounds, especially boys, suffered the worst start in life as they continued to fall further behind every other ethnic group at school ‐ with their chances of a successful and prosperous career decreasing as a result."
[Telegraph] Smokers are feeling the cold in a French city that has banned outdoor heaters on café terraces, the last refuge of customers who want to savour a cigarette with their coffee.
Rennes, in Brittany, is the first city in France to take the controversial step aimed at limiting pollution in response to the climate emergency. Nice, Bordeaux and Angers are considering similar legislation.
After smoking became illegal inside French cafés in 2007, those wishing to indulge in a "café-clope" (coffee with a cigarette) were banished to pavement terraces. Café owners say a large part of their revenue now risks going up in smoke if their terraces become cold and unwelcoming in winter.
Supporters of the ban argue that heating a café terrace for one winter emits as much carbon dioxide as driving a new car 120,000 kilometres (72,000 miles), or three times the circumference of the Earth.
Marie, 34, a teacher in Rennes, told the Telegraph: "There are so many other things that waste energy and cause pollution. Why focus on this one? Cafés are now offering blankets to keep warm but to be honest, I don’t like the idea of a blanket that other people have used."
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Global Warming started in the seventies because of peak oil worries. The US now has enough that it has started exporting. France’s nuclear reactors all have a major fault. Does France have oil/gas? We need to go nuclear power, because oil/gas will not last forever.
[AnNahar] Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed pension reforms which have sparked a month-long transport strike.
Some protesters donned the yellow vests which over the past year have become symbolic of opposition to Macron's attempts at reforms he says will rationalise La Belle France's 42 separate pension regimes into a single points-based system.
Unions reject the scheme saying it would require millions of people to work beyond the official retirement age of 62.
The marchers set off after midday from the Gare de Lyon railway station in eastern Gay Paree behind a giant banner reading ""Macron, withdraw your project; save and improve our retirements," heading for Gare de l'Est, four kilometres (2.5 miles) to the north, an AFP news hound said.
Reaching the opera house at Bastille square, some demonstrators shouted "we don't want the grandfather clause" referring to proposals for new opera dancers to lose the current generous pension benefits enjoyed by older colleagues who can currently retire at 42.
So far, more than 60 performances at the Gay Paree opera's historic Garnier and modern Bastille stages have been cancelled, leading to losses of more than 12 million euros ($13.4 million) in ticket sales.
Several other professions, including train drivers, also enjoy special pension provisions. Macron wants to simplify the system and is banking on support falling for the strikers the longer the disruption goes on amid what is now the longest continuous train strike in French history.
A new poll published Friday showed a majority of 61 percent still support the strike, although that was five points lower than a December 19 survey, according to pollster Odoxa.
Unions have called another day of mass demonstrations for Thursday, when teachers, hospital workers and others are expected to join the strike.
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We in America can retire at 62 but with reduced benefits.
America or France or elsewhere, if its just a ponzi scheme run by the government, eventually the money runs out. Instead of reduced benefits, you get none.
[Guns.com] From time to time, when governments send men (that officially don’t exist) to places they officially never went, said ghostmen are equipped with sanitized weapons, lacking any identifying marks and that can’t be traced back to their country of origin. In the 1960s, when US clandestine mission operators needed a reliable and deniable burp gun for classified missions in Southeast Asia, they reached for the K-Gun.
Produced by Carl Gustav SG for the Swedish Army, in its day the M45 submachine gun was well received and considered the top of the line when it came to compact power. It was designed during World War 2, put into production in 1945 (thus the M45 designation) and labeled Kulsprutepistol. While Sweden was its primary user, several examples were acquired for use by the US government and while in American hands, this long and near-unpronounceable text simply became “the K gun.”
Taking a cue from the STEN and M3 subguns of the WWII-era, the M45 was made primarily from metal stampings to make it as inexpensive and light as possible. Its 8.37-inch rifled barrel and folding rectangular buttstock gave it an overall length of 21.7-inches when collapsed. Its weight, at 7.37-pounds unloaded, is on par with the UZI.
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I asked a practical colleague if he'd fired the K-Gun. He said he had, but he deferred to his friend Albert Slugocki with considerable field experience who noted “when you’re doing your business the magazine tends to fall out”.
Slugocki had an extraordinary career: Polish resistance and French Foreign Legion as a minor; Army tours in Korea; SF in SE Asia and Europe until 1970; boat captain on Amazon. His memoir The Autumn Man is recommended.
[Washington Examiner] More than 200 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, when it takes up a major abortion case this spring.
The request was in an amicus brief filed Thursday in support of a Louisiana law the Supreme Court is reviewing that requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
A total of 207 lawmakers agreed that the Louisiana law should be allowed to stand, but also said the high court's decisions on Roe and its 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, which allowed states to regulate abortion, "should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled."
The 39 Republicans in the Senate and 168 lawmakers in the House, all of them Republicans except for Democrats Dan Lipinski and Collin Peterson, want the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe and Casey. If Roe were to be overturned, then decisions about the legalization of abortion would fall to states, some of whom are already poised to make abortion illegal.
Abortion rights groups have been concerned about the weakening or overturning of Roe since the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed two of President Trump's Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. The Roe decision legalized abortion across the United States until fetal viability, which is generally understood to be about 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
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It wasn't their authority. It was a state's authority. SCOTUS assumed powers and purview that was never intended for the federal judiciary to have without an Article V amendment. It violated the separation of powers between the federal and state governments.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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If abortion is so popular and wonderful, why is there such a phobia about allowing more than 9 people to vote on it?
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Never should have gone to SCOTUS. If it had been left up to the states, we'd never have wasted so much time and breath arguing about it as a nation.
Different strokes for diff'rent states... and those who favor abortion rights would have fought for them in the only appropriate venue: elections at the state level.
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It went to SCOTUS as a wink and nod to the supporters. Some States would've rejected it. The babykillers wanted a nationwide rule
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Now as a result of Roe, and that other disastrously stupid SCOTUS decision from the same era, Bakke, we have these BS concepts that have only created confusion and made Americans mistrust their rulers and hate each other. "Right to privacy," "diversity."
What mischief was made by that Court. Better to scrap both and start over, with elections. If the good people of State X or Y want abortion on demand and race-based college admissions, let them have it. If not, then strike them down.
But don't leave it up to unelected judges torturing logic and the English language to come up with bullshit concepts that have no foundation in our laws or legal traditions.
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If I were given the opportunity to reverse 5 Supreme Court decisions, this would not be on that list. I agree it was wrongly decided and bad policy, but just not the hill to die on this year.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Blue Lives Matter] Atlanta, GA ‐ Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields announced on Friday that, effective immediately, the Atlanta Police Department has a "no-chase policy."
[The Federalist] It’s almost unheard of that schools would ever say no to a large financial donation, especially when it aims to help economically disadvantaged children to go to college. However, Dulwich College and Winchester College, two private universities in the United Kingdom, recently denied such a donation. Both turned down more than £1 million for poor white boys, out of the concern the donation might fall afoul of Britain’s Equality Act of 2010.
[Telegraph] Smokers are feeling the cold in a French city that has banned outdoor heaters on café terraces, the last refuge of customers who want to savour a cigarette with their coffee.
[AnNahar] Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed pension reforms which have sparked a month-long transport strike.
[Guns.com] From time to time, when governments send men (that officially don’t exist) to places they officially never went, said ghostmen are equipped with sanitized weapons, lacking any identifying marks and that can’t be traced back to their country of origin. In the 1960s, when US clandestine mission operators needed a reliable and deniable burp gun for classified missions in Southeast Asia, they reached for the K-Gun.
[Washington Examiner] More than 200 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, when it takes up a major abortion case this spring.
