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Apparently it's now part of "Art Institutes":
https://www.republicreport.org/2018/inside-a-for-profit-college-conversion-lucrative-ties-troubling-actions/

I run DCEH, Richardson said. I run Woz U.

That was true. Richardson, while serving as head of DCEH, which is a subsidiary of the faith-based, Los Angeles-headquartered non-profit Dream Center, is also the chairman of the board of Woz U., which is connected to a network of for-profit companies owned or staffed by Richardson, his close relatives, and long-time associates.

You can file a complaint, Richardson said on the call with his staff, but I’m not going to answer your 62 questions. Go back to work, he said, or whatever you do. For some of those listening, Richardson’s tone was not just hostile, but intimidating.

And there's this:
https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/university-of-greed-public-citizen-education-report-2018.pdf

Brent Richardson, who helped engineer the transformation of Arizona-based Grand Canyon
University from a religious non-profit school into a publicly-traded for-profit giant, is now
CEO of Dream Center Education Holdings LLC, which is owned by a Los Angeles-based
Christian nonprofit 167 that purchased 31 Art Institute schools, plus South University and
Argosy University. Dream Center has hired a former Trump campaign advisor, Barry Bennett
to lobby on its behalf and paid Bennett $90,000 in the first quarter of 2018, according to a
lobbying disclosure form.168

I never heard of "Art Institutes" before; anyone? Doesn't sound good though.

Law enforcement should just enforce the laws, in my opinion. They should not be involved in lobbying for or against them, though.

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The opinion of law enforcement is one I'm actually interested in. Their input into how difficult something is to police is certainly useful in finding the best working solutions. (It's also possible that their input on a given matter is useless, but the only way to know is to listen to it.)

It's the lobbying bit that's the problem. Instead of gathering input from various groups and crafting the best workable solution, you often get the solution that best appeases the highest bidders.

Big Pharma is only one of five industries spending big money to keep it illegal. The rest are aggravating, too. Private prisons, prison guard unions, and actual law enforcement are also involved. Law enforcement should just enforce the laws, in my opinion. They should not be involved in lobbying for or against them, though.

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LEOs have to worry about that every single time they pull someone over. Is it a soccer mom, a businessman, or a three strikes felon who doesn't want to go back inside? They don't know.

Sorry, but any LEO that gives this line is flat out wrong. Since 1980, there have been only 2 years, 1980, and 2001, where there were more than 200 officer deaths. In 2013, there were 100 deaths, and 51,625 assaults, and 14,857 assaults with injury. Last year, out of over 900,000 sworn officers, there were 117 fatalities (didn't find the assault numbers). Of those dealths, 49 were related to a vehicle crash, 20 of which involved 1 vehicle. It sounds like driver training might be what they are lobbying for.

Top 10 deadliest jobs by death/hr worked include things like logger, fisherman, construction, farming/ranching, powerline techs, miners, and truck drivers.

there's a line of duty death in the United States nearly every day of the week. Statistically speaking law enforcement is safer today than it has been in a long time,

hmmm, the math doesn't seem to add up there. If there was one every day, then total officer deaths should exceed 365, which hasn't happened since...ever. 1930 was the last time the number was over 300.

The War on Drugs also alienates the police from our poorest and most vulnerable communities. The same thing happened during prohibition, this is not a new societal phenomenon. Nor can you blame the police, they enforce the law, legislators write it.

I'll give you the first two, but not "I only enforce the law" part. Police unions, owners of private, for profit prisons, and prison guard unions are the largest contributors to campaigns intended to roll back drug prohibitions. There is also a profit motive, at the department level at least, on the law enforcement side. Civil Forfiture allows police to confiscate personal property with no trial or conviction.

These people are a minority, out of the dozens of LEOs I know I can only name one that falls into this category. Short tempered and thin skinned are bad personality attributes for LEOs.

You have the beginning of a point there. The rest of the point is, the so called "good" officers won't cross the blue line of silence by reporting and testifying against the problem officers. Instead, you get the opposite. Just this week in South Carolina, officer Michael Slager shot and killed an unarmed man, Walter Scott, who was originally accused of trying to take the officers taser. Another officer statement confirmed this report. But wait, independent video later showed that Scott was unarmed, running away, and didn't have the taser. Well, he didn't have it until officer Slager dropped it near the dead body.

Until the LEO community is willing to apply the law to themselves, they will continue to have a reputation as corrupt thugs.

the media and body politic never make a story out of LEOs doing their jobs correctly.

They also never tell a story about a positive outcome from drug use, citizen use of a firearm in self defense, and plenty of other stuff. So how does that make the police shooting case much different?

Law enforcement is a customer service orientated business; unfortunately, all of the customers are assholes."

So LEO have just as many stereotypes as the general public? If your friend doesn't want to deal with types of people and situations that come up in that job, they should look for something di

That's funny - I removed your Google Search's wsj.com requirement and the next several results were all rebuttals from much more trustworthy sources.

Let's summarize:

• WSJ is a not a secience journal, but a financial paper with a pro-big-business focus. Also, it's owned by Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch.
• The linked article is written by two of the largest climate-deniers out there, Joseph Bast (effectively owned by the Koch bros., and known as a bastion of anti-science FUD, such as his claiming that there's no proof smoking is bad for you) and by an employee of his, Roy Spencer.
• Their rebuttals of the 97% figure as a "myth" are based on using figures from all science fields. The 97% figure is based on asking only those in climatology fields. (This is akin to deciding that a poll asking football players who the best football coach is can't be trusted because they didn't ask hockey players as well. I mean, they're all sports people, so their opinions on other sports should carry the same weight as those actually involved in that sport, right?)

That link lacks the "millions" you, it seems far less the the above stated $900 million. I guess there is technically "millions", $2 milion of you total the 3 banks. You'll note that this website you use as a reference indicates it doesn't track Koch PACS because that money is not hidden, https://www.opensecrets.org/or....

Here's a good estimate of the Koch PAC spending, http://www.republicreport.org/...

It may seem odd, but most people in last election voted for Democrats, who have climate change as part of their platform.

In 2012, the first congressional election after the last round of gerrymandering, Democratic House candidates won 50.59 percent of the vote — or 1.37 million more votes than Republican candidates — yet secured only 201 seats in Congress, compared to 234 seats for Republicans. The House of Representatives, the “people’s house,” no longer requires the most votes for power. source

So blaming "democracy" seems a little odd -- especially since we're a Republic.

> However, the "increasing criminality" allegation needs citations...

How about the many cases of prison corporations, prison guard unions and police unions lobbying against drug-war reforms?

I suggested making corporate funded lobbyists illegal. I didn't say anything about you and a couple of hundred others lobbying in another structure. A non-profit organization might be a good choice. Even a Political action committee might be appropriate. As bad as those are, they're still downright transparent compared to how corporate lobbyists and lawmakers interact. At best we get these lame lobbyist activity reports, often only after the laws they're involved in are passed.

We've made corporations into people, and letting them dump unlimited funds into lobbyists makes that pseudo-person able to influence our laws to their benefit too. This is not a theory in regards to the topic here, it's documented fact in several places now. Here in Maryland where today's article focuses on, we had Speed Camera Lobbyist charged with Ethics Violations. Chicago has Mayor's speed cameras would help political ally. And the speed camera lobbyists were well represented on the first half of the year's busiest lobbyist reports.

My comments on how these laws are advancing were not speculation; I was commenting on exactly how things have happened in Maryland. A deeper bit of fact checking only suggests I didn't hit all the sources that funded the speed camera lobbying though. Rather than completely bootstrapping itself legally, speed camera lobbying has also been funded by revenue made from red light cameras, another area where for-profit companies lobby in ridiculous ways. Note the comment there on how the red light camera companies have even managed to bypass standard law enforcement rules in some places.

Ding ding ding! Here is the infographic version of the above comment: http://www.republicreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ROI-1024x460.jpg

Here's a recent article, just to back up the claim that this is about making money for special interests, and not about catching bad guys or saving money for the general public.
http://www.republicreport.org/2012/mckeon-drone-lobby-speech/