Nothing about this law is good. It is even worse that I first thought. When I wrote the previous post, I didn’t realize that individual police officers are being required to enforce that law. That certainly makes no friends in police circles. It is stupid to limit police discretion. Police are supposed to demand proof of legal residency from any…
Category: Police
Good shooting
Officer with good aim, lucky to be alive.
Immigrants in Arizona
I try and face most issues objectively. But not this one. I am pro-immigrant. My mom is an immigrant (from Germany) and my father’s parents were immigrants (Greeks from the Ottoman Empire on an Italian passport from what is now Albania). New York was founded on illegal immigrants (hell, America was founded on illegal immigrants). Nativist bastards hated your immigrant…
Putting the coke back in cola
Or in this case Coca Colla.
Perlman Place Demolition
The Baltimore Sun has a video. It’s always a bit sad to see people cheer the destruction of a city block. Of course this block was already destroyed. Now it’s just a matter of tearing down empty shells of brick. Everything of value has been stripped. Now it’s just a place for trash, wild animals, and crime. As sad as…
RIP Daryl Gates
The career of Gates should not be celebrated. My sincere condolences to his family and those who loved him. Seriously. But LA Police Chief Daryl Gates didn’t like to give breaks to other people. So why should I give him one? Gates is still popular among conservative law-and-order types. Drugs on a block? Send in an armored tank. Casual drug…
Daryl Gates dies
Forgive me if I don’t send flowers to his funeral. What an SOB.
A billion here and a billion there…
A study by Daryl Fischer shows that 94 percent of Arizona state inmates are repeat or violent offenders. That “or” is important. “The myth that we’re filling our prisons with first-time drug offenders is not true.” Well sort of. It is generally true (with some notable exceptions) that people don’t do prison time for non-violent drug possession. But this hardly…