Surely, since he wished for the jury to reach a verdict, the judge should have waited before releasing his own decision? Since the jury were not sequestered, they were bound to learn of the judge's decision and be influenced ("tainted") by it.
The judge claims that the plaintiff's attorneys OK'd the early release of his decision, but the whole episode sounds strange, risky, and totally unnecessary.
Even if the cop later is found to be a racist, or a wife-beater, or some other lowlife, recorded evidence could still preserve conviction for an actual crime.
The city as a whole is better able to afford repairing a house destroyed for a public purpose, than the innocent owner.
One of Winston Churchill's finest ideas as Britain's war leader was an insurance program to pay for homes destroyed by Nazi bombs. Under common law, the homeowner was out of luck (and private insurance excludes war damage or goes bankrupt), but Churchill strengthened national morale by nationalizing private losses suffered in the public cause.
(The insurance scheme started making money in 1942-43 as the Luftwaffe's attentions were drawn east, but losses resumed under V-1 attacks in 1944.)
Chairman Mao kept China poor with famine (Great Leap Forward, 1958-1961) and chaos (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976). China's embrace of World markets and economic growth only started in 1980, under Deng Xiaoping.
The most serious wrong turn in US economic policy toward China came with a bi-partisan free trade agreement ("Permanent Normal Trade Relations") in year 2000. There were hopes that as China became richer, it would become more mellow and democratic like Taiwan and South Korea. There was no provision to reexamine PNTR if these hopes for mellowing failed to pan out. Taking power in 2012, Xi Jinping would turn China decisively back in an authoritarian direction.
Trade advocates became complacent after fears about the 1992 NAFTA agreement with Mexico largely failed to materialize. NAFTA made Mexico more prosperous at only marginal costs to the US. Key policy makers failed to consider that a labor pool several times ours (China) could have a much more serious impact than one only a third ours (Mexico).
Until very recently, it was understood that individuals, whether private citizens or politicians, had a right to engage their followers without getting flooded out by trolls and hecklers. (Exceptions applied, of course, to accounts maintained or serviced with public money, or used to transact official business.)
Thomas Paine was not required to allot 50% of his <i>American Crisis</i> series to arguments in favor of King George. Abraham Lincoln was not required to allocate 50% of the Gettysburg Address to Copperheads arguing for Confederate Independence. Harriet Beecher Stowe was not required to allot 50% of <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> to defenders of slavery. (Though Stowe would release a second book <i>A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> to engage and refute pro-slavery criticisms of <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>.
You're wrong about the population. For metro NYC (which includes parts of Connecticut, New Jersey, and even a little bit of Pennsylvania), it is about 18 million as you say. But the bar graph is for the incorporated city of NYC (the five boroughs), which has recently been between 8 and 9 million.
The bar for year 2018 shows a "count" of under 300, quite good for a large city with a population over 8 million. Murder "rates" are usually computed per 100,000 people, eg for the USA as a whole, the murder rate dropped from 9.4 (per 100,000) in 1993 to 4.5 in 2014. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate
AC-- Thou dost protest too much.
You apparently wanted to rehearse the well-known connection between RFK Sr and Joe McCarthy, but it is not relevant here. Nobody would be confused unless they wanted to be confused.
(1) No-knock warrants can be justified in kidnap/hostage situations (provided the cops have the right address). But I share Tim Cushing's suspicion of the "destruction of evidence" claim (especially for evidence of victimless offenses).
(2) As technology continues to develop, I can envision cops getting a warrant to pre-deploy (surreptitiously) monitoring equipment that can "see" into a closed apartment before the official "knock." Without endangering anyone's life, this would secure at least some record of suspected evidence destruction between the "knock" and when the door is opened.
"...boogaloo bois were involved in the violence and destruction..."
We all reacted with contempt when some on the Far Right blamed the destruction and violence of the Jan 6 Putsch on Antifa. But they may have been inspired by those who tried to blame the destruction of last summer's riots on far-Right provocateurs. Significant evidence for it did not pan out. The looters and arsonists may have been opportunists and professional criminals rather than progressive activists, but they were not Far Right. It might be instructive to note that defenses of looting appeared on some progressive and anti-police websites, but not on far-right websites.
Does judge's showmanship risk a mistrial?
Surely, since he wished for the jury to reach a verdict, the judge should have waited before releasing his own decision? Since the jury were not sequestered, they were bound to learn of the judge's decision and be influenced ("tainted") by it.
The judge claims that the plaintiff's attorneys OK'd the early release of his decision, but the whole episode sounds strange, risky, and totally unnecessary.
Re: Re: Diversion
A Deere caught in the headlights of a mobilized farm lobby?
Re: Re:
Back around 2004, a Right-wing columnist called a new pacifist group in Ohio "Velveeta-eating surrender monkeys."
Re: Re: If Josh Hawley had been in charge of the Jan 6 putsch...
Actually, I more had in mind what Josh Hawley might do for himself, in 2024 (if Agent Orange does not run), or 2028.
How about requiring local manufacture of "Swiss cheese"?
That argument would be full of holes...
If Josh Hawley had been in charge of the Jan 6 putsch...
Hawley would have recruited the hard men needed to push it to a successful conclusion.
Re: Why spray-paint?
It was the swastika that blew open the whole scandal. Not just dumb, but a sort of professional-death wish.
Bodycams (and other recordings) are the wave of the future
Even if the cop later is found to be a racist, or a wife-beater, or some other lowlife, recorded evidence could still preserve conviction for an actual crime.
Even if cops behaved correctly, government should still pay
The city as a whole is better able to afford repairing a house destroyed for a public purpose, than the innocent owner.
One of Winston Churchill's finest ideas as Britain's war leader was an insurance program to pay for homes destroyed by Nazi bombs. Under common law, the homeowner was out of luck (and private insurance excludes war damage or goes bankrupt), but Churchill strengthened national morale by nationalizing private losses suffered in the public cause.
(The insurance scheme started making money in 1942-43 as the Luftwaffe's attentions were drawn east, but losses resumed under V-1 attacks in 1944.)
Re: Re: You got your dates wrong
Chairman Mao kept China poor with famine (Great Leap Forward, 1958-1961) and chaos (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976). China's embrace of World markets and economic growth only started in 1980, under Deng Xiaoping.
The most serious wrong turn in US economic policy toward China came with a bi-partisan free trade agreement ("Permanent Normal Trade Relations") in year 2000. There were hopes that as China became richer, it would become more mellow and democratic like Taiwan and South Korea. There was no provision to reexamine PNTR if these hopes for mellowing failed to pan out. Taking power in 2012, Xi Jinping would turn China decisively back in an authoritarian direction.
Trade advocates became complacent after fears about the 1992 NAFTA agreement with Mexico largely failed to materialize. NAFTA made Mexico more prosperous at only marginal costs to the US. Key policy makers failed to consider that a labor pool several times ours (China) could have a much more serious impact than one only a third ours (Mexico).
Massie a buffoon, but courts got social media decisions wrong
Until very recently, it was understood that individuals, whether private citizens or politicians, had a right to engage their followers without getting flooded out by trolls and hecklers. (Exceptions applied, of course, to accounts maintained or serviced with public money, or used to transact official business.)
Thomas Paine was not required to allot 50% of his <i>American Crisis</i> series to arguments in favor of King George. Abraham Lincoln was not required to allocate 50% of the Gettysburg Address to Copperheads arguing for Confederate Independence. Harriet Beecher Stowe was not required to allot 50% of <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> to defenders of slavery. (Though Stowe would release a second book <i>A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> to engage and refute pro-slavery criticisms of <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>.
Re: Re: Your bar graph shows the murder "count", not the murder
You're wrong about the population. For metro NYC (which includes parts of Connecticut, New Jersey, and even a little bit of Pennsylvania), it is about 18 million as you say. But the bar graph is for the incorporated city of NYC (the five boroughs), which has recently been between 8 and 9 million.
Your bar graph shows the murder "count", not the murder "rate".
The bar for year 2018 shows a "count" of under 300, quite good for a large city with a population over 8 million. Murder "rates" are usually computed per 100,000 people, eg for the USA as a whole, the murder rate dropped from 9.4 (per 100,000) in 1993 to 4.5 in 2014.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate
Re: Disbar SLAPP lawyer for blatant perjury
AC--
You said it first, but I could not agree more.
Re:
AC-- Thou dost protest too much.
You apparently wanted to rehearse the well-known connection between RFK Sr and Joe McCarthy, but it is not relevant here. Nobody would be confused unless they wanted to be confused.
[Was: ALPRs have not decreased crime
Did a dim-bulb relative of Gov Parsons have security contract?
Otherwise, this outrage makes no sense.
No-knock warrants-- future substitutes?
(1) No-knock warrants can be justified in kidnap/hostage situations (provided the cops have the right address). But I share Tim Cushing's suspicion of the "destruction of evidence" claim (especially for evidence of victimless offenses).
(2) As technology continues to develop, I can envision cops getting a warrant to pre-deploy (surreptitiously) monitoring equipment that can "see" into a closed apartment before the official "knock." Without endangering anyone's life, this would secure at least some record of suspected evidence destruction between the "knock" and when the door is opened.
Re: "It was the other guys in disguise!"
We all reacted with contempt when some on the Far Right blamed the destruction and violence of the Jan 6 Putsch on Antifa. But they may have been inspired by those who tried to blame the destruction of last summer's riots on far-Right provocateurs. Significant evidence for it did not pan out. The looters and arsonists may have been opportunists and professional criminals rather than progressive activists, but they were not Far Right. It might be instructive to note that defenses of looting appeared on some progressive and anti-police websites, but not on far-right websites.
Fellow sufferer?
Perhaps Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona could write Macron a note of sympathy?
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona
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