That does seem to be what the court just said in an attempt to cover for a cop, that said please don't give them ideas, police are already trigger happy enough and they will run with that one if someone points it out to them, and as for people who don't have badges cops being wanton killers is no reason to take it out on innocent dogs.
Your extensive and well thought out comment and rebuttal of the article have been noted, thank you for furthering the conversation in a valuable and meaningful manner.
The original report listed the Knudsens as the victim of a potential crime (the shooting of their dog) and Officer Cantrell (who was off-duty at the time) as the suspect. Later, Officer Whitesell "changed the report to reflect that Cantrell was the victim."
A change that I'm sure had absolutely nothing at all to do with the shooter being a cop, and that would certainly have happened were the roles reversed and someone shot a police dog while out on a walk...
Tell the guy to get bent then make a new flag and put it directly into the public domain. All the problems are solved and there's no need to pay extortionist amounts of money to a greedy jackass.
'He' in this case as it's a different person, but yes the same logic applies, if terrible people/groups don't want you to have a job that's a good indicator that you should have it.
As with Sohn, now with Bedoya: The greatest sign that a person is qualified for the job is when the corrupt come pouring out of the woodworks to try to keep them from it.
That would explain their actions here so barring them actually explaining just what's so problematic with the law that they had to shut off those specific features that seems like a reasonable assumption.
It would be quite interesting if someone tried to get them to say specifically what part of the law made those features illegal because for the life of me I cannot think of a reason other than spite and trying to turn the public against the bill that would explain their actions here.
Ah yes, the classic 'Let's infuriate our customers by disabling features of our products and thereby providing even more justification for third-parties to be able to step in and fix our self-inflicted problems' gambit, that's sure to get the public which is already not happy with them on their side.
'You refuse to comply? Your budget just shrank by 10 million.'
So long as the city keeps asking the NYPD to change while continuing to pay them the organization has no reason to change or give a damn what the city might bluster about. Either start cutting funding until they comply or drop the pretense that the city has any interest in keeping the NYPD in check.
Because it's an easier target and less likely to rile up people who would much rather not have the boat rocked by accepting blame.
'There's a bunch of really terrible people online, think that could be because some people are just assholes? Nah, must be the platforms they're on.'
'People are committing suicide, think that might have anything to do with situations they're in and the social stigma and financial cost attached to mental health issues that might prevent them from seeking health? Nah, must be social media's fault.'
'We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas as to how to stop the spread of CSAM, think we should maybe work with the platforms that are already tripping over themselves to purge that sort of content as soon as they know about it, and who might have the information needed to go after the people creating and/or posting it? Nah, let's just punish them for not getting rid of it instantly and punish them even more via framing the encryption that keeps hundreds of millions of peoples' data secure as something only criminals would ever want or use.'
FOSTA was claimed to be needed to help victims of sex trafficking.
People knowledgeable on the subject said that the law would in fact hurt them and leave them worse off.
FOSTA gets passed anyway and what happened? Turns out that those experts were right and sex workers were worse off and it was harder to find and put a stop to sex trafficking.
Cue FOSTA 2.0 where the victims being used as props are children being exploited and the law doesn't just copy the same problems of FOSTA which made things worse but ramps it up to make everyone less safe in the process by going after encryption.
At this point I don't think it's excessive or hyperbolic in the slightest to hold the position that any politician who is trying to repeat the disaster that was FOSTA is doing so because they want to see more children exploited. If you know what happened the previous time and you're trying to repeat the same thing it's reasonable to assume that you want the same results as the last time.
Sorry to hear you went through that, learning that the people that you thought were there to protect the public and uphold the law might not be too keen on either is a lesson no-one should ever have to learn, and especially not from personal experience.
Sarcasm and snark can be a great tool to shield yourself from feeling too ill stepping into the shoes, if ever so briefly, of truly terrible and/or naive people, but even then it can be rather sickening to read your own comments afterwards and realize that as sarcastic as you might have been it's still likely the honest position/belief of far too many(read: more than zero) others.
Frame it as a 'driving and law enforcement interaction sim' to help new prospective drivers test their knowledge on what to do or not do should they ever get pulled over and then just forget to mention the racial component and how that might impact the interactions until they've run it a few times trying to not to 'fail' it.
Sounds like someone's lying or Virginia Beach really needs to have some kind of law about knowingly lying to the court...
Dangit it's on the tip of my tongue, starts with a 'p' and ends with 'jury'... ah I'm sure it'll come to me at some point, and to the local prosecutors a day or so before the heat-death of the universe.
'Team players get timely backup. Non-team players...'
If past stories are any indication any cops who weren't all-in on running the department like their own little criminal enterprise were likely forced out via a hostile work environment/co-workers/superiors for not being 'team players', quickly leaving only the blatantly corrupt and the silent enablers.
But, for whatever reason, locals and local officials have nearly nothing to say about three years of exponentially escalating roadside extortion that took place under their noses for three years.
I can think of two offhand, either they were afraid what would happen if they 'offended' the thugs in blue who apparently had no problem robbing people blind and issuing threats to silence anyone who objected or they saw the money flowing in and figured if a little legalized robbery of anyone driving through/by was the price that they were willing to have others pay.
Whatever the case the entire department is pretty clearly rotten to the core and needs to be fired and blacklisted as a whole because otherwise the lot of them are likely to follow their former chief's lead in keeping their heads down while the heat is on before going right back to the highly profitable profession of legal criminals.
It's one thing to still be a fan/supporter of an abusive company when it's going after someone else and you simply don't know how bad they are, quite another when they're going after you. Unless you're a masochist(emotional or otherwise) who enjoys being smacked around sticking around at that point is not a healthy thing to do even if the company 'wouldn't notice' if you left.
As for nostalgia same as above really, sure that can have quite the draw but if it means providing attention and money to an abusive company that's a relationship you're much better off ditching and looking elsewhere for a replacement.
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Re: So.....?
That does seem to be what the court just said in an attempt to cover for a cop, that said please don't give them ideas, police are already trigger happy enough and they will run with that one if someone points it out to them, and as for people who don't have badges cops being wanton killers is no reason to take it out on innocent dogs.
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Your extensive and well thought out comment and rebuttal of the article have been noted, thank you for furthering the conversation in a valuable and meaningful manner.
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The original report listed the Knudsens as the victim of a potential crime (the shooting of their dog) and Officer Cantrell (who was off-duty at the time) as the suspect. Later, Officer Whitesell "changed the report to reflect that Cantrell was the victim."
A change that I'm sure had absolutely nothing at all to do with the shooter being a cop, and that would certainly have happened were the roles reversed and someone shot a police dog while out on a walk...
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Re: Re: It's already a knock off
I was just about to say the same thing.
Tell the guy to get bent then make a new flag and put it directly into the public domain. All the problems are solved and there's no need to pay extortionist amounts of money to a greedy jackass.
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'He' in this case as it's a different person, but yes the same logic applies, if terrible people/groups don't want you to have a job that's a good indicator that you should have it.
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'You can't nominate them, they might do the job!'
As with Sohn, now with Bedoya: The greatest sign that a person is qualified for the job is when the corrupt come pouring out of the woodworks to try to keep them from it.
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That would explain their actions here so barring them actually explaining just what's so problematic with the law that they had to shut off those specific features that seems like a reasonable assumption.
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It would be quite interesting if someone tried to get them to say specifically what part of the law made those features illegal because for the life of me I cannot think of a reason other than spite and trying to turn the public against the bill that would explain their actions here.
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'Do you hate us yet? No? How about now?'
Ah yes, the classic 'Let's infuriate our customers by disabling features of our products and thereby providing even more justification for third-parties to be able to step in and fix our self-inflicted problems' gambit, that's sure to get the public which is already not happy with them on their side.
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'You refuse to comply? Your budget just shrank by 10 million.'
So long as the city keeps asking the NYPD to change while continuing to pay them the organization has no reason to change or give a damn what the city might bluster about. Either start cutting funding until they comply or drop the pretense that the city has any interest in keeping the NYPD in check.
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Because it's an easier target and less likely to rile up people who would much rather not have the boat rocked by accepting blame.
'There's a bunch of really terrible people online, think that could be because some people are just assholes? Nah, must be the platforms they're on.'
'People are committing suicide, think that might have anything to do with situations they're in and the social stigma and financial cost attached to mental health issues that might prevent them from seeking health? Nah, must be social media's fault.'
'We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas as to how to stop the spread of CSAM, think we should maybe work with the platforms that are already tripping over themselves to purge that sort of content as soon as they know about it, and who might have the information needed to go after the people creating and/or posting it? Nah, let's just punish them for not getting rid of it instantly and punish them even more via framing the encryption that keeps hundreds of millions of peoples' data secure as something only criminals would ever want or use.'
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A vote for EARN IT is a vote for CSAM
FOSTA was claimed to be needed to help victims of sex trafficking.
People knowledgeable on the subject said that the law would in fact hurt them and leave them worse off.
FOSTA gets passed anyway and what happened? Turns out that those experts were right and sex workers were worse off and it was harder to find and put a stop to sex trafficking.
Cue FOSTA 2.0 where the victims being used as props are children being exploited and the law doesn't just copy the same problems of FOSTA which made things worse but ramps it up to make everyone less safe in the process by going after encryption.
At this point I don't think it's excessive or hyperbolic in the slightest to hold the position that any politician who is trying to repeat the disaster that was FOSTA is doing so because they want to see more children exploited. If you know what happened the previous time and you're trying to repeat the same thing it's reasonable to assume that you want the same results as the last time.
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Re: Re: No, not even then
Sorry to hear you went through that, learning that the people that you thought were there to protect the public and uphold the law might not be too keen on either is a lesson no-one should ever have to learn, and especially not from personal experience.
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Sarcasm and snark can be a great tool to shield yourself from feeling too ill stepping into the shoes, if ever so briefly, of truly terrible and/or naive people, but even then it can be rather sickening to read your own comments afterwards and realize that as sarcastic as you might have been it's still likely the honest position/belief of far too many(read: more than zero) others.
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Re: Re: Driving While Black Simulator
Frame it as a 'driving and law enforcement interaction sim' to help new prospective drivers test their knowledge on what to do or not do should they ever get pulled over and then just forget to mention the racial component and how that might impact the interactions until they've run it a few times trying to not to 'fail' it.
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Sounds like someone's lying or Virginia Beach really needs to have some kind of law about knowingly lying to the court...
Dangit it's on the tip of my tongue, starts with a 'p' and ends with 'jury'... ah I'm sure it'll come to me at some point, and to the local prosecutors a day or so before the heat-death of the universe.
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Re: Re: 'just a few bad apples'...
... did you have a point or were you just hankering to beat up on a strawman?
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'Team players get timely backup. Non-team players...'
If past stories are any indication any cops who weren't all-in on running the department like their own little criminal enterprise were likely forced out via a hostile work environment/co-workers/superiors for not being 'team players', quickly leaving only the blatantly corrupt and the silent enablers.
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But... 'just a few bad apples'...
But, for whatever reason, locals and local officials have nearly nothing to say about three years of exponentially escalating roadside extortion that took place under their noses for three years.
I can think of two offhand, either they were afraid what would happen if they 'offended' the thugs in blue who apparently had no problem robbing people blind and issuing threats to silence anyone who objected or they saw the money flowing in and figured if a little legalized robbery of anyone driving through/by was the price that they were willing to have others pay.
Whatever the case the entire department is pretty clearly rotten to the core and needs to be fired and blacklisted as a whole because otherwise the lot of them are likely to follow their former chief's lead in keeping their heads down while the heat is on before going right back to the highly profitable profession of legal criminals.
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It's one thing to still be a fan/supporter of an abusive company when it's going after someone else and you simply don't know how bad they are, quite another when they're going after you. Unless you're a masochist(emotional or otherwise) who enjoys being smacked around sticking around at that point is not a healthy thing to do even if the company 'wouldn't notice' if you left.
As for nostalgia same as above really, sure that can have quite the draw but if it means providing attention and money to an abusive company that's a relationship you're much better off ditching and looking elsewhere for a replacement.
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