Because in my day the search would have been done by a principal who would have found my pot and suspended me.
What wouldn't have happened is bringing cops to the school, arresting me and inflicting permanent damage to my entire life via a minor arrest record - partially because cops weren't omnipresent in schools. Also not of happened was having that arrest persistently ruin future employment and housing opportunities because most businesses didn't compulsively look for irrelevant reasons to deny employment and housing.
This last is a note for anyone thinking that today's minor arrest doesn't carry 100x the penalty that it did - in my day.
a 2021 New Jersey town that's located in a state best known for mob violence, corrupt politicians, and residents considered only slightly less terrible than Philadelphians.
I take strong issue with this assertion. New Jersey, where a FU followed by forcing your car into a guardrail is considered a polite hello (looking at you Brunswick), is a far more terrible place than Philly could ever hope be.
"The Obama-Biden Administration's FCC adopted 'Net Neutrality' rules that required these companies to treat all internet services equally..."
Adopted in the last 15 min of the Obama presidency, so it had almost no time to become established.
End stage Obama was like the decades-absent dad suddenly wanting to parent in his adult kids' lives. We frankly needed candidate Obama to show up, about 7.5 years earlier than he did.
Longtime Pasco resident adding some perspective here: About a decade ago, Bob White was an awful sheriff, concerned with fat budgets and little else.
We once had experienced cops (retired then moved here) who were really good at handling complex situations. White fired them to avoid paying pensions and replaced them with new, inexperienced deputies - who were mostly tasked to raise revenue.
During routine traffic stops, I had cops show up at my window visibly quivering with rage. Officers responding to neighborhood disputes where easily manipulated and pitted against actual victims.
White resigned mid-term w/o explanation and Nocco was appointed. A lot of positive turn around followed. Bad cops were let go, some after long fights with the police union. Traffic infractions that don't pose actual risk are generally ignored. A deputy friend explained that it wasn't worth their time.
I've been part of situations involving police and the local homeless community and the officers were consistently respectful and considerate. I'm easily critical of police in general but this is the kind of policing every community should have.
Having kids in Pasco schools, I'm far more concerned with the superintendent's choice to firehose our kids' records into this family-hazing program. With top school leadership partnering with bullies, our kids are at whole new levels of risk.
For it's population size, west Pasco county is one of the whitest demographics in the US. Targeting kids of color here takes diligence and dedication to the task.
There is an elegance in well formed structures of law and I feel the framers were better than most at capturing that and setting us on a path that continued it.
This story exemplifies what the absence of those structures looks like. To see this as a problem that begins and ends with one man is too narrow a view to be helpful. A better takeaway is that the fragility of the structure is on display here - that it can evaporate the moment we stop sustaining it.
Disclaimer: My descent into oldmanhood will be endlessly marked by fist shaking at news systems. I fixate on them because as I calculate how we got to some awful place, I far too often find a coverage hole where journalism ought to have been.
Once Tim clicks whatever-button-publishes-this, it's available to be re-covered by by hundreds of US news outlets. Instead editors will fixate on the same stories, that every other editor is fixating on today.
Reasonably, this is absolutely news. Journalists covering this would be performing their minimal duty -and- a news ecosystem that wasn't earning it's weakened state would be covering this in every US market.
It is indeed. The last time I was this proud of ProPublica's was when they did "Free The Files".
(backstory: ProPublica went up against entrenched news orgs, who had been forced to disclose how much ad cash they receive from campaigns and dark money groups. To reduce the threat of accountability, (hundreds? of) news orgs released the ad buy data as pdf images. In theory, this could keep it out of easily researched databases.
ProPublica crowdsourced volunteers to transcribe the pdfs & the public learned just how much political orgs fund campaign news coverage. - hint:It's massively. I'd put the number at about a billion dollars per campaign cycle.)
Thanks - again - to ProPublica for looking out for the public, in a meaningful way.
In My Day No Warrant Was Necessary
Because in my day the search would have been done by a principal who would have found my pot and suspended me.
What wouldn't have happened is bringing cops to the school, arresting me and inflicting permanent damage to my entire life via a minor arrest record - partially because cops weren't omnipresent in schools. Also not of happened was having that arrest persistently ruin future employment and housing opportunities because most businesses didn't compulsively look for irrelevant reasons to deny employment and housing.
This last is a note for anyone thinking that today's minor arrest doesn't carry 100x the penalty that it did - in my day.
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I take strong issue with this assertion. New Jersey, where a FU followed by forcing your car into a guardrail is considered a polite hello (looking at you Brunswick), is a far more terrible place than Philly could ever hope be.
(untitled comment)
"The Obama-Biden Administration's FCC adopted 'Net Neutrality' rules that required these companies to treat all internet services equally..."
Adopted in the last 15 min of the Obama presidency, so it had almost no time to become established.
End stage Obama was like the decades-absent dad suddenly wanting to parent in his adult kids' lives. We frankly needed candidate Obama to show up, about 7.5 years earlier than he did.
(untitled comment)
I'm in FL, best friend is in MI. We have determined the problem is Peninsulas.
I propose a law . . .
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Thanks Karl
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Thanks Karl
Re: nothing like a little EXTORTION!
Longtime Pasco resident adding some perspective here: About a decade ago, Bob White was an awful sheriff, concerned with fat budgets and little else.
We once had experienced cops (retired then moved here) who were really good at handling complex situations. White fired them to avoid paying pensions and replaced them with new, inexperienced deputies - who were mostly tasked to raise revenue.
During routine traffic stops, I had cops show up at my window visibly quivering with rage. Officers responding to neighborhood disputes where easily manipulated and pitted against actual victims.
White resigned mid-term w/o explanation and Nocco was appointed. A lot of positive turn around followed. Bad cops were let go, some after long fights with the police union. Traffic infractions that don't pose actual risk are generally ignored. A deputy friend explained that it wasn't worth their time.
I've been part of situations involving police and the local homeless community and the officers were consistently respectful and considerate. I'm easily critical of police in general but this is the kind of policing every community should have.
None of this excuses this program, however.
Re:
Having kids in Pasco schools, I'm far more concerned with the superintendent's choice to firehose our kids' records into this family-hazing program. With top school leadership partnering with bullies, our kids are at whole new levels of risk.
Re:
For it's population size, west Pasco county is one of the whitest demographics in the US. Targeting kids of color here takes diligence and dedication to the task.
Me explaining a 3-branches diff to my kids
Supreme Court justices understand what they have learned.
Elected officials understand what major donors pay them to learn.
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Karl's word-builds make the universe a little better.
(untitled comment)
I find myself wishing for a historical list of US moral panics - with analysis about how well they held up.
(untitled comment)
There is an elegance in well formed structures of law and I feel the framers were better than most at capturing that and setting us on a path that continued it.
This story exemplifies what the absence of those structures looks like. To see this as a problem that begins and ends with one man is too narrow a view to be helpful. A better takeaway is that the fragility of the structure is on display here - that it can evaporate the moment we stop sustaining it.
Re:
We can compare tech to humans. It tends to start out neutral but with development comes biases.
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I'm a poor parent for not helping my kids find holes to exploit - because that may be the most valuable skill they'll learn.
I will do better.
Welcome to Florida
Here's Florida's voter rolls, last 8 years including the latest. Available to anyone. I'm in there somewhere.
https://flvoters.com/downloads.html
Re: Handed to news orgs all over, this story goes nowhere
Disclaimer: My descent into oldmanhood will be endlessly marked by fist shaking at news systems. I fixate on them because as I calculate how we got to some awful place, I far too often find a coverage hole where journalism ought to have been.
Handed to news orgs all over, this story goes nowhere
Once Tim clicks whatever-button-publishes-this, it's available to be re-covered by by hundreds of US news outlets. Instead editors will fixate on the same stories, that every other editor is fixating on today.
Reasonably, this is absolutely news. Journalists covering this would be performing their minimal duty -and- a news ecosystem that wasn't earning it's weakened state would be covering this in every US market.
Re:
It is indeed. The last time I was this proud of ProPublica's was when they did "Free The Files".
(backstory: ProPublica went up against entrenched news orgs, who had been forced to disclose how much ad cash they receive from campaigns and dark money groups. To reduce the threat of accountability, (hundreds? of) news orgs released the ad buy data as pdf images. In theory, this could keep it out of easily researched databases.
ProPublica crowdsourced volunteers to transcribe the pdfs & the public learned just how much political orgs fund campaign news coverage. - hint:It's massively. I'd put the number at about a billion dollars per campaign cycle.)
Thanks - again - to ProPublica for looking out for the public, in a meaningful way.
(untitled comment)
HeadlineSmasher: Satirist finds it's easy to get LEO to believe that thing they most want to believe.
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