The Police Brutality Thread

[Jeff Lebowski]

Lol. Saun King has always been a huge dummy.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Who wants first crack at the offensive stained glass windows at Chartres?

[Uncle Ted]

Who wants first crack at the offensive stained glass windows at Chartres?

Maybe Drumpf can donate some of his tanning spray. That would be a quick fix. I have always thought Jesus would look good with a nice tan.

[Commando]

And on this episode of Happy Days, the Fonz competes in a waterskiing competition...

[Uncle Ted]

oops...

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[BigPiney]

And on this episode of Happy Days, the Fonz competes in a waterskiing competition...

Lol, yes.

[Uncle Ted]

Too many democrats in Seattle for businesses...

Due to Seattle’s unrest, billion-dollar investment firm moving to Phoenix

Coronavirus pandemic or not, an investment advisory company is leaving the cultural unrest in Seattle and moving its headquarters to Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor.

” … The unrest that has taken place in the city of Seattle … there is really is not a downtown business community today,” Smead Capital Management, President and CEO Cole Smead told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

Smead said that although taxes in Seattle are lower, candidate recruitment is harder and the cost of living within the city is more expensive than Phoenix.

“We’re hearing rumors of 40-story buildings that will be only 20-percent occupied by October,” Smead said.

"My biggest concern for Seattle was what the business community is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”

He found that metro Phoenix offers a better quality of life.

“My colleagues can pick the socio-economic rung of life that they want … live their lives, build
their households and have a family if they’d like,” Smead said.

“Where we’re coming from just wasn’t like that.”

My biggest concern for Seattle was what the business community is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”

He found that metro Phoenix offers a better quality of life.

“My colleagues can pick the socio-economic rung of life that they want … live their lives, build
their households and have a family if they’d like,” Smead said.

“Where we’re coming from just wasn’t like that.”

https://ktar.com/story/3321032/due-t...ng-to-phoenix/

Seattle business owner warns city facing 'mass exodus' as 'homeless, drugs and gangs' take over downtown
[...]
Carlson asked Rodolfo if he was going to stay in Seattle.

"Speaking for myself and for other friends that have either restaurants or other businesses," Rodolfo answered, "I can tell you that Seattle is going to experience a mass exodus."

Rodolfo himself said he planned on moving to Arizona.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/joey-r...town-decimated

WTF... Arizona? Commando says that is turning into a blue democrat craphole too.

[Commando]

Too many democrats in Seattle for businesses...


https://ktar.com/story/3321032/due-t...ng-to-phoenix/


https://www.foxnews.com/media/joey-r...town-decimated

WTF... Arizona? Commando says that is turning into a blue democrat craphole too.

Actually Arizona, with its about 30% latino population, is rejecting racist assholes running for office-- Martha McSally and Donald Trump-- which will effectively turn the state blue. I'd say that's quite decidedly a major UPGRADE from the former domain of shitbag Sheriff Arpaio, Governor Jan Brewer, and Proposition SB 1070.


And lol at this guy who thinks you can't have a family living in Washington state, but you can in Arizona.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that Seattle is going to be just fine economically.

[old_gregg]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that Seattle is going to be just fine economically.

the idea that the homeless and drugs are new to seattle is also pretty funny

[Katy Lied]

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[Uncle Ted]

Damn those Antifa kids... Don't they know that Buddha was against slavery?

[Uncle Ted]

Actually Arizona, with its about 30% latino population, is rejecting racist assholes running for office-- Martha McSally and Donald Trump-- which will effectively turn the state blue. I'd say that's quite decidedly a major UPGRADE from the former domain of shitbag Sheriff Arpaio, Governor Jan Brewer, and Proposition SB 1070.


And lol at this guy who thinks you can't have a family living in Washington state, but you can in Arizona.

30% LOL... Texas is 40% latino. We all reject asshats like Beto that want to take our guns!

Beto (aka, El Latino Falso) Hey, maybe Beto will move to Arizona!

[swampfrog]

An article that helps organizing and balancing some thoughts swirling around in my head on this topic.

Loury’s recent writings, interviews, and conversations at his vlog with John McWhorter help make space for serious people of all races interested in understanding and discussing problems of race, police, and crime in a holistic way that does not force them to deny obvious facts.

He sees the problem in its multidimensional entirety: not simply as a crime or mass incarceration problem, but a problem of social control and ultimately human development. He calls us to a greater sense of social responsibility than our policy since the 1970s has exhibited. We should heed his message.

Loury insists on nuance. He insists on the proper application of moral vocabulary, on recognizing as “contemptible” the violent and irresponsible behavior of a minority of young black men responsible for violent crime in poor black communities. He insists that part of treating people with respect and dignity is to hold them accountable for their behavior. One theme in his analysis of race and inequality is that black people have agency and are not mere victims of systemic racism. This is a deeply humane argument, for to deny a person’s agency is to deny his humanity. Loury argues that black leaders and communities have to exercise this agency and find a way to effectively condemn and control immoral behavior in their own communities.

White, right-leaning listeners like me are likely to seize on that element of Loury’s analysis. Loury also makes a point we might miss if we rest there. While he insists on personal agency and accountability for behavior in black communities, he does not absolve the larger polity of responsibility for the ills of high-crime black communities. He insists that Americans need to shift our thinking, so that we don’t treat the problems of poor black communities as the problems of “those people.” He argues that racism played a role in the development of our policy of social control. He has argued that anti-black racial animus helps explain the turn to an increasingly punitive approach to social control, starting in the mid-1960s, continuing even as crime rates fell after the early 1990s. Our method of social control is partly related to our history of racial injustice and racial subordination.

A central reality of our time is the fact that there has opened a wide racial gap in the acquisition of cognitive skills, in the extent of law abidingness, in the stability of family relations, the attachment to the workforce and the like, and this is a disparity in human development which is as a historical matter rooted in political, economic, social, and cultural factors peculiar to this society and reflective of its unlovely racial history. That is, the inequality of human development that is reflected in widely disparate rates of criminal offending by race in this country is a societal, not a communal or a personal achievement.

[frank ryan]

the idea that the homeless and drugs are new to seattle is also pretty funny

The idea that out of control riots are new to Seattle is also naive. There was that whole WTO thing.