tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post5388643860152541801..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: OUR FEELINGS WE WITH DIFFICULTY SMOTHER/WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY'S TO BE DONE...roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-43085859144240376022015-04-15T20:12:31.370-04:002015-04-15T20:12:31.370-04:00"...So, maybe 1955 did have something going f..."...So, maybe 1955 did have something going for it after all..." If I'm reading you right, I agree insofar as municipal services were expected and provided (yes, for white folks only, mostly) and no one was talking about shrinking government small enough to drown in the freakin bathtub. Sure, there were the perennial jokes about so-so work ("close enough for government work") but offices were open, and people were employed, and folks expected things to get done and mostly stuff did. Somehow today we still expect everything to be both hunky and dory and we don't seem to understand that those with the wealth don't care what we expect.Magathanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-15389466391877994312015-04-15T12:34:24.459-04:002015-04-15T12:34:24.459-04:00If you did so, you would just get blank stares, be...If you did so, you would just get blank stares, because they *don't* think the cops have anything to hide. Everytime some cop shoots somebody in the back, the victim had it coming. The cameras are bad because the race hustlers then use the video to take everything out of context<br /><br />/wingnut (just in case)Lurking Canadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-36257579178224445432015-04-15T12:23:37.637-04:002015-04-15T12:23:37.637-04:00I think the mandatory independent review boards ar...I think the mandatory independent review boards are not as far off politically as they were, though that is still a mighty mighty big mountain.LittlePignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-26710833727155464592015-04-15T12:18:54.253-04:002015-04-15T12:18:54.253-04:00Harry Anslinger
I was surprised at my very viscer...<i>Harry Anslinger</i><br /><br />I was surprised at my very visceral reaction to just reading his name. There's a trigger I didn't realize.LittlePignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-88903448465846906852015-04-15T11:49:07.471-04:002015-04-15T11:49:07.471-04:00You cause me more research than just about anyone....You cause me more research than just about anyone.<br /><br />"Why did he get so many upvotes for that? I'm missing something there...aw, Jeez, watch it be a quote...dammit!, Blackstone and Fromm again!"<br /><br />Thank you sir.LittlePignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-29761442182517074042015-04-15T10:11:04.040-04:002015-04-15T10:11:04.040-04:00It sounds like Andrew Sullivan's farewell to h...It sounds like Andrew Sullivan's farewell to his loyal readers.Ripleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34892394128843330912015-04-15T09:28:54.870-04:002015-04-15T09:28:54.870-04:00Cops did a lot of walking the beat in those days. ...Cops did a lot of <em>walking</em> the beat in those days. It wasn't all driving around in police cruisers, which necessarily separates the cop from the citizen. Efforts at "community policing" are an attempt to get back to this style of police work, where the cop really is part of the community and shares a bond of a sort with the people he serves. Doesn't seem to have worked too well with Officer Glock, unfortunately.billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-52480694659759535122015-04-15T07:08:29.645-04:002015-04-15T07:08:29.645-04:00I'm sure they feel enlightened and mightily as...I'm sure they feel enlightened and mightily ashamed, 'cause that's how wingnuts roll--with an open mind, respect for differing perspectives and experiences, and a generous ability to admit wrong.Colenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34980486596207332292015-04-15T06:19:08.188-04:002015-04-15T06:19:08.188-04:00Jury duty for me has been an exercise in watching ...Jury duty for me has been an exercise in watching authoritarian followers being led by the nose by prosecutors and in observing jurors use the power over people's lives to validate their prejudices. I doubt that one in fifty jurors even begins to understand the concept behind "a jury of one's peers," or the presumption of innocence, for that matter.<br /><br />It's difficult enough to ward off cynicism in this regard, and jury duty doesn't help. <br /><br />But, truthfully, I doubt that you'd ever get convictions, since those jurors would have to be convicted by, umm, other jurors.<br /><br />I'd rather that we criminally prosecute prosecutors who withhold evidence and condone official evidence tampering and look the other way at gross violation of rights or coerced confessions, because that's the real root of the problem. If such prosecutions were a common occurrence, you can be damned sure that prosecutors would be telling the cops that they'd better not do one single thing to get the prosecutor's ass in a sling, and there'd be a dramatic reduction in convictions due to withheld or manufactured evidence. And, maybe, eventually, the public--eventual jurors all--might be inclined to think that a little more skepticism about the state's case and evidence is warranted.<br /> <br /><br />As it is now, though, such prosecutions are virtually non-existent, even in the most egregious of instances. The state is just plain no fucking good at policing itself. So, <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/suspicious_lawyer_finds_malware_on_external_hard_drive_supplied_by_police_l" rel="nofollow">things like this become routine</a>.montag2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-42157525180299476892015-04-15T05:15:55.530-04:002015-04-15T05:15:55.530-04:00I'm reasonably certain that Brooks could fuck ...I'm reasonably certain that Brooks could fuck a chicken in a Nazi uniform at high noon on DuPont Circle, and for a finale, bite off the chicken's head, chew it and swallow it, and then immediately sit down and write a column intimating that Kanye West and all the hippity-hoppers were destroying civilization as we know it, and that, secretly, <i>everyone</i> just loved Lawrence Welk and Pat Boone and Joe McCarthy and weren't the clams at Howard Johnson's just dee-lish and weren't separate drinking fountains, after all, for everyone's health and safety, and, when you think about it, in retrospect, of course, didn't Orval Faubus have a point?montag2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-43393859183894988302015-04-15T04:19:24.604-04:002015-04-15T04:19:24.604-04:00Nor does he play well with others.Nor does he play well with others.montag2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22174154985886385912015-04-15T02:57:39.333-04:002015-04-15T02:57:39.333-04:00As a closet Savoyard I would like to thank you for...As a closet Savoyard I would like to thank you for this post's caption.<br /><br /><br />Sir William must have been thinking of Brooks when he wrote:<br /><br /><br />"I bloviated at my Party's call<br />And never thought of thinking for myself at all.<br />I thought so little,<br />They rewarded me<br />By giving me a column at the NYT."mrstiltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-70774398150255608762015-04-15T00:57:07.177-04:002015-04-15T00:57:07.177-04:00Sounds too much like work.Sounds too much like work.AGoodQuestionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-7846888665468436372015-04-15T00:43:51.422-04:002015-04-15T00:43:51.422-04:00Now, now, we have to maintain the distinction betw...Now, now, we have to maintain the distinction between plebeians and centurions, or both might start questioning their place in the scheme of things.AGoodQuestionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-16789632627451456942015-04-15T00:38:48.663-04:002015-04-15T00:38:48.663-04:00Okay, it sounds a little like "cop".Okay, it <b>sounds</b> a little like "cop".AGoodQuestionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-59715906513262179542015-04-14T23:45:32.625-04:002015-04-14T23:45:32.625-04:00the increasing us vs. them mentality
has been inc...<i>the increasing us vs. them mentality</i><br /><br />has been increasing for a long time. I read a book in the '80s<br /><br />called <i>Cops: In Their Own Words</i>, in which one retired Lieutenant bemoaned the fact that "it used to be the cops and honest citizens vs the bad guys. Now it's the cops vs everybody else". (Approximate quote). So, maybe 1955 did have something going for it after all...Meanie-meanie, tickle a personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-52393636817986709702015-04-14T23:42:18.005-04:002015-04-14T23:42:18.005-04:00Putting a camera on someone is a sign that you don...Putting a camera on someone is a sign that you don’t trust him, or he doesn’t trust you.j_birdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-40486687343935780632015-04-14T23:28:18.943-04:002015-04-14T23:28:18.943-04:00Oh,my, God, it's...Diiiiiip!Oh,my, God, it's...<i>Diiiiiip!</i>Meanie-meanie, tickle a personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-64994562223712297402015-04-14T23:18:32.672-04:002015-04-14T23:18:32.672-04:00I see what you did there, M. Brecht.I see what you did there, M. Brecht.realinterrobangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-56519843440437471772015-04-14T23:17:53.661-04:002015-04-14T23:17:53.661-04:00Surely a plosive? Or don't we want to think a...Surely a plosive? Or don't we want to think about that?realinterrobangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-8478181652167430632015-04-14T23:16:44.574-04:002015-04-14T23:16:44.574-04:00Oh Steve, my Anglican Jewish-curious goyishe heart...Oh Steve, my Anglican Jewish-curious goyishe heart loves you.realinterrobangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60459323433990601322015-04-14T23:01:07.433-04:002015-04-14T23:01:07.433-04:00& effort.& effort.MBouffanthttp://mbouffant.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-17540324807669800042015-04-14T23:00:36.897-04:002015-04-14T23:00:36.897-04:00..."needs improvement"..."needs improvement"ckc_not_kcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-30564257805312005282015-04-14T21:01:51.026-04:002015-04-14T21:01:51.026-04:00Yeah, hope you don’t mind, Mort, but I’m taking th...Yeah, hope you don’t mind, Mort, but I’m taking that also.<br /><br /><br />(And it only cost me 1 upvote!)Buffalo Rudenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-82461435724544955652015-04-14T20:11:23.511-04:002015-04-14T20:11:23.511-04:00Sorry, officer, I heard the "no no" on y...Sorry, officer, I heard the "no no" on your lips but saw the "yes yes" in your eyes.Yastreblyanskyhttp://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com