The LEO thread

[O Really]

All over, but if you look for the church with the police bullet holes in it you're in one of the most populous black areas.

I guess that's predictable. But I thought only wealthy retired Republicans live in Hendersonville.

[neoplacebo]

All over, but if you look for the church with the police bullet holes in it you're in one of the most populous black areas.

I guess that's predictable. But I thought only wealthy retired Republicans live in Hendersonville.

Ahem; I'm here, not retired, not wealthy, and a long way from that other thing.

[O Really]

All over, but if you look for the church with the police bullet holes in it you're in one of the most populous black areas.

I guess that's predictable. But I thought only wealthy retired Republicans live in Hendersonville.

Ahem; I'm here, not retired, not wealthy, and a long way from that other thing.

And the fact you did not deny being Republican will be noted in your NSA file for future reference.

[neoplacebo]

[neoplacebo]

You're probably right; since I've been sending critical emails to wingnut politicians, I've started receiving emails from wingnut associations; I get emails from Reince Priebus, who I think should be put on an immediate regimen of Thorazine therapy and possibly shock treatments. I fear this will not cure him though, and I myself am not a medical person, but I see clearly what needs to be done.

[k9nanny]

All over, but if you look for the church with the police bullet holes in it you're in one of the most populous black areas.

I guess that's predictable. But I thought only wealthy retired Republicans live in Hendersonville.

http://censusviewer.com/city/NC/Hendersonville/2010

Democrats: 30.9%
Republicans: 32.63%
Non-partisan: 36.22%
Libertarian: .25%

I suspect a lot of those non-partisans are like many of us County Democrats. We went unaffiliated so we could vote in the Republican primaries.

Used to be, Democrats lived in the City and went to Shepard's on their final journey. Republicans lived in the County and got buried by Jackson's.

[bannination]

All over, but if you look for the church with the police bullet holes in it you're in one of the most populous black areas.

I guess that's predictable. But I thought only wealthy retired Republicans live in Hendersonville.

http://censusviewer.com/city/NC/Hendersonville/2010

Democrats: 30.9%
Republicans: 32.63%
Non-partisan: 36.22%
Libertarian: .25%

I suspect a lot of those non-partisans are like many of us County Democrats. We went unaffiliated so we could vote in the Republican primaries.

Used to be, Democrats lived in the City and went to Shepard's on their final journey. Republicans lived in the County and got buried by Jackson's.

I didn't know that either. Fascinating...

[neoplacebo]

Maybe we should all go to the Republican graveyard and pay homage to what used to be sort of rational. Nah.

[JTA]

Gov. Nixon Calls For ‘Vigorous Prosecution’ Of (Ferguson, Missouri, police officer) Darren Wilson

Interesting. I guess it could be just to calm tensions but that would surprise me. Governors don't oppose cops lightly. One would think that the people advising him know as much or more than anyone and put significant thought into it before he took such a strong stance.

Tourism takes a new turn:

Ferguson police officials would not quantify how many looters have been arrested since the Brown shooting but presented a Washington Post reporter with a stack of roughly 50 arrest reports. While some of those arrested for stealing are from Ferguson, a large number have addresses listed in Illinois or in Texas.

“It’s like looting tourism,” an officer commented as he showed the reports. He asked not to be named. “It’s like they are spending their gas money to come down here and steal.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

What in the hell...

[bannination]

Gov. Nixon Calls For ‘Vigorous Prosecution’ Of (Ferguson, Missouri, police officer) Darren Wilson

Interesting. I guess it could be just to calm tensions but that would surprise me. Governors don't oppose cops lightly. One would think that the people advising him know as much or more than anyone and put significant thought into it before he took such a strong stance.

Tourism takes a new turn:

Ferguson police officials would not quantify how many looters have been arrested since the Brown shooting but presented a Washington Post reporter with a stack of roughly 50 arrest reports. While some of those arrested for stealing are from Ferguson, a large number have addresses listed in Illinois or in Texas.

“It’s like looting tourism,” an officer commented as he showed the reports. He asked not to be named. “It’s like they are spending their gas money to come down here and steal.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

What in the hell...

I hate people.

[neoplacebo]

This morning on my way to work, a Buncombe County sheriff deputy car whizzed by me on highway 25. I was going less than the speed limit (no hurry to get to work) which was 45 or 50. He was going well over my speed. So I dutifully switched lanes and paced him for about a mile to the on ramp for I-26W where we had to stop and wait for the green light. Once down the ramp and onto the interstate, he started driving in a manner that would get any of us arrested for reckless driving. It was so bad that I didn't have a chance to follow behind him for whatever the journey may have presented, as was my intent and hobby. I couldn't even get close enough, due to other traffic and not wanting to be stupid myself, to get the cop car number painted on the bumper; it was four digits is all I could tell. I was actually going to call in about him, which I've never done before. It even made me wonder if I had paced him before and he was testing me. He was making dangerous moves. And coming from Henderson County in a Buncombe County vehicle at 630 in the morning just might be a violation in itself.....I always thought if you were employed with a law enforcement agency in a given county that you had to reside in that county. Maybe that and the speed limit signs are just suggestions for this "officer." Who's to say?

[JTA]

...What in the hell...

Should we take the Ferguson cops' word for it that everyone arrested for theft was stealing?

Honestly, I don't know who to believe in this whole jacked up mess. The cops are evidently crooked. There's conflicting witness accounts about what happened.

You've got some people saying this guy was killed execution style. You've got others saying he charged the cop and the cop acted in self defense. Then you've got people peacefully protesting, then you have thieves looting stores, cops strong-arming media....

Best of luck to you Ferguson, I wish you all the best, because I'm just gonna have to sit this one out and wait for an investigation to be conducted before jumping on anyone's bandwagon.

You know what would have prevented all of this from happening in the first place? Dash cams or some kind of video recording device for the police officers. Both for the police officers protection and for the protection of everyone else.

[bannination]

This morning on my way to work, a Buncombe County sheriff deputy car whizzed by me on highway 25. I was going less than the speed limit (no hurry to get to work) which was 45 or 50. He was going well over my speed. So I dutifully switched lanes and paced him for about a mile to the on ramp for I-26W where we had to stop and wait for the green light. Once down the ramp and onto the interstate, he started driving in a manner that would get any of us arrested for reckless driving. It was so bad that I didn't have a chance to follow behind him for whatever the journey may have presented, as was my intent and hobby. I couldn't even get close enough, due to other traffic and not wanting to be stupid myself, to get the cop car number painted on the bumper; it was four digits is all I could tell. I was actually going to call in about him, which I've never done before. It even made me wonder if I had paced him before and he was testing me. He was making dangerous moves. And coming from Henderson County in a Buncombe County vehicle at 630 in the morning just might be a violation in itself.....I always thought if you were employed with a law enforcement agency in a given county that you had to reside in that county. Maybe that and the speed limit signs are just suggestions for this "officer." Who's to say?

That's my hobby too, .... my experience is the same....

[neoplacebo]

I urge everyone to do this. They know they can't do anything about it and they don't know if you have video in your car.

[JTA]

It's probable, though not certain if there was some back story, that Michael Brown had just committed a robbery, and this might have affected his choices when confronted by the cop.

There was some sort of tussle at the squad car, but we may never know what started it or what really happened. A dash cam wouldn't show us but its audio might help. Is there a recording and, if so, why hasn't it been released? Did it begin as an order by the cop to "get the f— onto the sidewalk" as Dorian Johnson says?

You know what, a similar scenario happened to me when I was probably about 16. Me and my friends probably looked like trouble makers but we weren't, so that's probably why this happened. Never caused any trouble. Anyway, one day we were walking on the edge of a small street with no sidewalk.It was drizzling out and there were large puddles on either side of the road. This asshole off duty cop almost runs over my friend and tells us to "stay the fuck off the street and stay the fuck out of my neighborhood". Screw that guy.

Edit: Forgot to add I didn't get shot dead in case anyone was wondering.

[JTA]

A friend lived on a residential street that was a convenient detour around lights, stop signs and traffic. People would speed passed ( ) and he'd yell at them from his front yard to "Slow down!" It became a fun game for all of us. One day we did it to a cop - might have been me, I can't remember. He hit his breaks as if to stop and grief us, then must have thought better of it and drove away.

I had a dumbass neighbor that would do something similar, only instead of yelling he would shoot cars with his paintball gun from the window in his house. Yeah, that didn't last long...

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[JTA]

...Bannination is Banni's...

Haha!

lol



On second though, that "lol" emoticon uses more bytes that simply typing "lol"

[bannination]

...Bannination is Banni's...

Haha!

lol



On second though, that "lol" emoticon uses more bytes that simply typing "lol"

I think the database size is around 80mb.... I'm blaming you.

Bandwidth smandwidth ---Monthly Bandwidth Transfer 1,739.48 / of ∞

I do kinda wanna see what they really mean by ∞, quick, everyone use large words!

[indago]

Journalist Eileen Sullivan wrote for The Associated Press 22 August 2014:
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The moment Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot an unarmed teenager, a 25-year-old Supreme Court case became the prism through which his actions will be legally judged. To most people, an 18-year-old unarmed man may not appear to pose a deadly threat. But a police officer's perspective is different. And that is how an officer should be judged after the fact, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in the 1989 opinion.
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"Yeah, we wuz all askeered fer our lives, so we peppered 'im full o' holes..."

[JTA]

See what equipment your police department has ordered:

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