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Meet The Company That Poached The FBI's Entire Silk Road Investigation Team (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot: The FBI team that brought down Silk Road has a new home. After headline-grabbing investigations, arrests, and prosecutions on some of America's highest-profile cybercriminals, five of U.S. law enforcement's most prized cybercrime aces have all left government service for greener pastures -- a titan consulting firm called Berkeley Research Group (BRG). BRG's newly hired gang of five includes former federal prosecutor Thomas Brown, as well as former FBI agents Christopher Tarbell, Thomas Kiernan, and Ilhwan Yum -- names that punctuated many of the biggest cybercrime stories of the last decade including Silk Road, LulzSec, Liberty Reserve, as well as the hacks of Citibank, PNC Bank, and the Rove Digital botnet; and the prosecution of Samarth Agrawal for stealing crucial code for high-frequency trading from the multinational, multibillion dollar bank Societe Generale. "Private industry provides a lot of opportunity," NYPD intelligence chief Thomas Galati told Congress earlier this year. "So I think the best people out there are working for private companies, and not for the government."
You've obviously never worked in any government office or with police. Rather than spew misinfotainment myths, try a ride along with a peace officer on a Friday night. It'll open your eyes.
Most cops are scum. Ive lived in plenty of cities where I wasnt sure if I was in the US or the USSR
Which language were they speaking?
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In California most of the DMV functions are available online. I haven't been inside the DMV office for more than 5 years. Unfortunately, lack of exposure to the DMV bureaucracy has caused a lot of millennials to believe that socialism is a good idea.
They were hired away from the FBI, and are now employed building Silk Road 3.
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So much of what I hear about government ineptitude is due to the underfunding of those people by the very people who consistently vote to cut the budgets. If I didn't know better, I would say that thier voting patterns are in a positive feedback loop that does not result in a good solution.
Is "opportunity" a new euphemism for money?
So before they jumped to private industry, these guys were not the best?
If you take a minute to think about, you'd see this is bullshit, like all such glib statements./p?
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
That looks an awful lot like a dangerous generalization.
I don't live in the US and I've never met a US police officer. Also, I do not support or defend police brutality in any way, it is crime and should be treated as such, however looking at the numbers of police officers in the US (around 1.1 million personal allowed to conduct arrests) you'd think that if they were ALL "scum" as you put it that you'd have a significantly higher rate of incidences of police brutality and deaths in police custody.
According to the ARD (Arrest-Related Deaths) Bureau of Justice stats; between 2003 and 2009 police in the US killed a total of 2,931 people they were attempting to arrest, of which 75% were being arrested for violent crimes. This sounds like a big number (about 419 people per year), but if viewed in terms of the number of violent crimes committed in the US (116,440,350,000 in 2013 for instance, taken from the FBI violent crime statistics of 367.9 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013) you realise just how tiny a drop in the ocean this number is.
More people die in traffic accidents over the Easter weekend DRIVING to the coast in South Africa between Johannesburg and Durban than are killed by the cops in the US in a year
Incidentally, around 143 US police are killed each year in the line of duty. Considering 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured. I think it's a safe assumption that being a cop in the US is a dangerous job that brings you into contact with a violent criminals. Clearly violent criminals exist, they shoot at each other, the public in general and the police, some of them are going to be stupid enough to try to shoot their way out of an arrest and get shot in return. Clearly not all of the people killed by the police fall into this category, but I don't think we should judge ALL police on the fact that a tiny minority of their 1.1 million staff are brutal, but we should judge them instead on how they deal with those individuals and what they do to weed them out of their ranks.
So while the media may tell millions of us every day about how savage the police are in order to get us to buy their papers and tune-in to their news programs, I don't believe the hype is proportional to the size or nature of the problem. But hey, even-handed and rational news never sold any news papers or advertising spots, so I guess the chances of us ever seeing it are really slim.
Incidentally, how many cops have you had interactions with and why are they scum in your opinion?
Most police officers who die in the line of duty either have a car accident or a heart attack - only about 1/3 are actually victims of homicide.
Beyond that, yes, police don't actually kill that many people. But what we've found is that when they do, the others tend to cover up their bad behavior. A staggering number have killed multiple times. Given that half of all LEOs in the US don't ever draw their sidearm during their entire career, you get the picture that some guys just don't need to be police officers.
I didn't understand it until I went to a mixed-race church with a black preacher years ago. One Sunday he gently explained it to us white folks in the audience. This is a guy with no criminal history, college educated, etc. He started out by explaining that every single time he had been pulled over he had a gun pointed at him, sometimes touched to his bald head.
We have a pretty big problem with that stuff in this country, and the Tamir rices are just the tip of the iceberg.
Do you have ESP?
Let me explain this really simply. Every single cop who pulled over the preacher that I talked about is a violent felon. Yes, it's that simple.
It's not legal to point a gun at someone unless you have a reasonable belief that they are going to immediately cause great harm to you or someone else. Period.
It's frightening how easily you ignore that.
Do you have ESP?
367.9 crimes / 100,000 people * 315,100,000 people = 1,159,000 crimes. Not 116 billion!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
It depends. Smart, capable people will continue to work for the government in exchange for stable employment and fringe benefits (shorter work hours, more vacation time, cheap health / life insurance, good pension). The best of the bunch obviously will go private sector because getting more than double the salary means you can spend half the year unemployed and have the same quality of life as the government folk.