The beginning of the video doesn't help the dead man's case. He appears to be reaching for the officer's gun and when he fails runs for his life. The items dropped at the body is no evidence, it's the man sun glasses.
But it does kinda call into doubt all of this officer's prior cases, right?
Why does it matter? This incident alone is enough for him to never be allowed to hold a firearm and certainly justifies him going to prison
And how many of this type of officer exist?
It's long been known the blue protects the blue. Body cameras is the ultimate tool to make these officers think twice before abusing their power. It also will deter corruption which we know is happening in some cities and states.
This video shows something they have been claiming has been happening all along while every single police department has vehemently denied it. So... your cheap "groupthink" rhetoric aside, this video is certainly putting the possibility out there that this is a systematic and widespread problem -- isn't it?
You didn't need the video for that to be proven. There have been enough incidents for most people to believe there is abuse. The biggest challenge is defining how broad the issue is. People who broke the law and had to deal with the authorities are in a very poor position to comment on them. It is in said criminals best interest to diminish the reputation of authorities.
It only matter when a top notch expert does this as an education exercise for others who look up to his work or need to learn his methods to follow his footsteps.
They could use a similar strategy as the one Ontario's FIT used. As a home owner you pay to install solar panels. The electricity produced is put back into the grid and you receive an amount per KW produced. The return per KW is higher than the current cost of electricity but the government pays for it. This is cheaper since the program promotes the creation of new companies through demand. The requirements for FIT also made it that solar panels had to have a local manufacturing component to them (can't remember the exact details). The end result is greener energy and local solar panel manufacturing.
I agree with this. The capitalist system promotes competition and innovation but at the cost of efficiency and economy of R&D (double edge sword).
The next big obstacle is over population. Developed countries still have a positive population growth but it's significantly less than countries like India. I hate to say this but population growth control is key to the future on earth. Science continues to increase life expectancy as well as free up time to do what we want (automation + AI within 100 years will probably take over most jobs).
Both your responses trail way off the main issue. Law and procedures will always require tuning. I can't argue that. After all, we've come a long way from public stoning and live burning of witches.
Fact is that the number of issues resulting from said procedure is insignificant if the procedure never have to be executed. Imagine how less significant said procedures would appear to be if they didn't have to act in the first place. That is why the root cause needs to be extinguished. It will save everybody grief and tax money which can be re-invested to do something more constructive.
Accountability has been found to be tricky to enforce in practice, esp. with things such as "blue code of silence".
Body cams cancel the blue code of silence BS.
They are seen together largely because drugs are criminalized in the first place
That's another issue. For now it's a criminal act and must be dealt with as such until laws change. If it hasn't changed it's because enough of the population believes current law is fine.
A non-violent crime is a crime that does not involve violence. Drug possession and distribution is one such crime
That's very much incorrect. Most street violence is over drug distribution. AKA, turf wars.
Quotes from a select few hardly proves they are adrenaline junkies.
The part where they have assault rifles?
At no point did I argue that they aren't over equipped for the situation as it's irrelevant to the issue itself. A power abusing officer with a hand gun is no different than one with a riffle.
Busting doors?
"Forced Entry" in most cases is used when there is refusal to cooperate (denial of access to the location specified on the warrant). It's not as simple as just kicking down the door such as some ill informed writers often claim.
Sure, I could also make more money doing something completely different with the same money. Like many types of investments, the short term return may appear small but can possibly grow significantly later on due to specialization (result of expertise and established infrastructure). I understand it more or less applies here but I was just trying to make a point.
I think I know what type of products you speak off. In our case it was Radiant panels. These panels replace your ceiling tiles (some of them depending on BTU requirements). The trick was taking the existing product that's just a aluminum extrusion and adapting it so it could be fastened to the T bar. his resulted in a partial re-design of the product since new extrusions had to be developed and manufactured. The extrusion being of lower purchase volume (custom to these types of jobs) resulted in higher cost per feet of extrusion.
Addition labor to install the panels also had to be considered since fastening the panels to the T bar wasn't standard practice. Our company also had to provide a certification which we had to pay for. That cost was obviously blended into the cost of the job.
My point is that we focus too much on the 0.01%. The real issue is the hoax call. That needs to be addressed first. Authorities can very easily be made accountable as suggested previously. Heck, why not pay for the equipment with the savings from not having to answer all those hoax calls?
The militarization of police has been problematic, and maybe that's a temporary, transitional issue, or maybe it's a natural consequence of heading in the wrong direction
I tend to see this as an exaggeration of reality. The media plays a great role at making it look worst than it really is.
But police departments are not inanimate objects
No they aren't and at no point do I shell them from the truth but we need to determine if the ratio of failure to success is acceptable. At first glance it doesn't look that bad but we are also limited to what the media picks and chooses for us.
The company I work for manufactured heating products for projects in California. The changes we had to make to our heating equipment for it to meet the quake requirements was huge and the product ended up costing twice as much. I figure it's just part of the cost of building commercial and industrial buildings in California.
No the real problem is the police having essentially a para-military mindset
Yes but you are still blaming the wrong people for the incidents. It's like blaming the explosion on the explosive. The one who lights it up is the one that caused the explosion, no the chemicals. You're using the.01% rule as your argument and that's why it's not valid.
In my opinion, every police officer should be tried before a jury for every shooting
A good start would be making them 100% accountable by putting body cams. I've said this a million times. People keep saying the police has too much power. The power isn't the problem, it's the lack of accountability. Without the body cams their word will always rule in court hence why they do things they can get away with.
The real problem here is the hoax. The mistakes authorities make is a matter that needs to be dealt with separately. Fact is, there are numerous hoax that are responded to properly and the odd one that makes the news for being outrageous.
So instead of blaming the responders we need to blame the people pulling the hoax. There needs to be severe punishment and methods to capture the offenders. The hoax themselves are dangerous and a massive waste of resources.
Authorities needs to put better procedures in place to help weed out potential hoax while keeping the same level of response to critical calls.
That's is the one thing I have always despised about working with MS products. I hope the new leadership is as open as they appear to be. If not, the saga will continue and I don't think they will survive it much longer.
There are also special editions of Windows for the EU that do not include Windows Media Player. There are a dozen versions for the Windows installation media for the different target countries.
People often forget how complicated being big can get when dealing globally.
Foreigners, on the other hand, have no such agreement
The problem is that crossing virtual borders should not be viewed any different than crossing real borders. The only difference here is that virtual borders aren't currently protected (in some countries they are). This is also why governments such as the Canadian government are starting to throw the idea of controlling in/outbound traffic. This is very bad for the internet and we can blame online criminals for this.
Should I serious have to look up every single country's law before I do something, just to make sure I'm not breaking some obscure country's law?
I wouldn't consider a ban on hacking to be an obscure law. Theft or vandalisms is a crime in every country where law enforcement exists.
So I guess Pfizer, Intel and Cisco must also be throwing out R&D money out the window since they spend higher percentages of their revenue than MS on R&D.
Please take the time to figure out what MS has actually achieved R&D wise before knocking it down with non factual information.
I guess a 10 second boot time is long by some standard. There isn't one PC at my work place that takes more than 20 seconds to be ready to work on. I only hear that excuse from bad IT people or IT people with little to no budget which means they are stuck with 7 year old PCs or even Macs. Blaming the OS or the hardware is often just an excuse for laziness.
Any poor integration of any type of hardware or software will always get this kind of response from it's users.
Malicious software and attacks will probably always exists but will become less of an issue with time. The FACT IS that credit card fraud has significantly declined in the last 5 years (even if the number of $$$ stolen has increased, the ratio of purchases to fraud is much lower). I was looking for the a report for VISA showing this but I could not find it. Please link it if you find it.
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What weapon?
I see a pair of sunglasses. Is that not what it is?
The beginning of the video doesn't help the dead man's case. He appears to be reaching for the officer's gun and when he fails runs for his life. The items dropped at the body is no evidence, it's the man sun glasses.
Am I seeing this right?
But it does kinda call into doubt all of this officer's prior cases, right?
Why does it matter? This incident alone is enough for him to never be allowed to hold a firearm and certainly justifies him going to prison
And how many of this type of officer exist?
It's long been known the blue protects the blue. Body cameras is the ultimate tool to make these officers think twice before abusing their power. It also will deter corruption which we know is happening in some cities and states.
This video shows something they have been claiming has been happening all along while every single police department has vehemently denied it. So ... your cheap "groupthink" rhetoric aside, this video is certainly putting the possibility out there that this is a systematic and widespread problem -- isn't it?
You didn't need the video for that to be proven. There have been enough incidents for most people to believe there is abuse. The biggest challenge is defining how broad the issue is. People who broke the law and had to deal with the authorities are in a very poor position to comment on them. It is in said criminals best interest to diminish the reputation of authorities.
It only matter when a top notch expert does this as an education exercise for others who look up to his work or need to learn his methods to follow his footsteps.
They could use a similar strategy as the one Ontario's FIT used. As a home owner you pay to install solar panels. The electricity produced is put back into the grid and you receive an amount per KW produced. The return per KW is higher than the current cost of electricity but the government pays for it. This is cheaper since the program promotes the creation of new companies through demand. The requirements for FIT also made it that solar panels had to have a local manufacturing component to them (can't remember the exact details). The end result is greener energy and local solar panel manufacturing.
I agree with this. The capitalist system promotes competition and innovation but at the cost of efficiency and economy of R&D (double edge sword).
The next big obstacle is over population. Developed countries still have a positive population growth but it's significantly less than countries like India. I hate to say this but population growth control is key to the future on earth. Science continues to increase life expectancy as well as free up time to do what we want (automation + AI within 100 years will probably take over most jobs).
Both your responses trail way off the main issue. Law and procedures will always require tuning. I can't argue that. After all, we've come a long way from public stoning and live burning of witches.
Fact is that the number of issues resulting from said procedure is insignificant if the procedure never have to be executed. Imagine how less significant said procedures would appear to be if they didn't have to act in the first place. That is why the root cause needs to be extinguished. It will save everybody grief and tax money which can be re-invested to do something more constructive.
Accountability has been found to be tricky to enforce in practice, esp. with things such as "blue code of silence".
Body cams cancel the blue code of silence BS.
They are seen together largely because drugs are criminalized in the first place
That's another issue. For now it's a criminal act and must be dealt with as such until laws change. If it hasn't changed it's because enough of the population believes current law is fine.
A non-violent crime is a crime that does not involve violence. Drug possession and distribution is one such crime
That's very much incorrect. Most street violence is over drug distribution. AKA, turf wars.
Quotes from a select few hardly proves they are adrenaline junkies.
The part where they have assault rifles?
At no point did I argue that they aren't over equipped for the situation as it's irrelevant to the issue itself. A power abusing officer with a hand gun is no different than one with a riffle.
Busting doors?
"Forced Entry" in most cases is used when there is refusal to cooperate (denial of access to the location specified on the warrant). It's not as simple as just kicking down the door such as some ill informed writers often claim.
Sure, I could also make more money doing something completely different with the same money. Like many types of investments, the short term return may appear small but can possibly grow significantly later on due to specialization (result of expertise and established infrastructure). I understand it more or less applies here but I was just trying to make a point.
That's why you need free electricity. Go solar. :)
What exactly about those things justifies sending a bunch of adrenaline-rush junkies with assault rifles to bust doors
BTW, that's just your slanted opinion that isn't backed by anything else than your hate for authorities.
Power is very much the problem. The power that you don't have is the power that cannot be abused.
No power doesn't get the job done. Power with accountability is a much better compromise and it gets the job done.
Why the fuck is Maryland SWAT spending 90% of its time serving search warrants for non-violent crimes (mostly drug possession)?
Maybe because drug and violence are often seen together.
(again, this is specifically while serving search warrants for non-violent crimes!)?
Non violent crimes? I doubt all drug possession cases are non violent. Most distributors I've met either carried a handgun or blade.
I think I know what type of products you speak off. In our case it was Radiant panels. These panels replace your ceiling tiles (some of them depending on BTU requirements). The trick was taking the existing product that's just a aluminum extrusion and adapting it so it could be fastened to the T bar. his resulted in a partial re-design of the product since new extrusions had to be developed and manufactured. The extrusion being of lower purchase volume (custom to these types of jobs) resulted in higher cost per feet of extrusion.
Addition labor to install the panels also had to be considered since fastening the panels to the T bar wasn't standard practice. Our company also had to provide a certification which we had to pay for. That cost was obviously blended into the cost of the job.
My point is that we focus too much on the 0.01%. The real issue is the hoax call. That needs to be addressed first. Authorities can very easily be made accountable as suggested previously. Heck, why not pay for the equipment with the savings from not having to answer all those hoax calls?
The militarization of police has been problematic, and maybe that's a temporary, transitional issue, or maybe it's a natural consequence of heading in the wrong direction
I tend to see this as an exaggeration of reality. The media plays a great role at making it look worst than it really is.
But police departments are not inanimate objects
No they aren't and at no point do I shell them from the truth but we need to determine if the ratio of failure to success is acceptable. At first glance it doesn't look that bad but we are also limited to what the media picks and chooses for us.
The company I work for manufactured heating products for projects in California. The changes we had to make to our heating equipment for it to meet the quake requirements was huge and the product ended up costing twice as much. I figure it's just part of the cost of building commercial and industrial buildings in California.
No the real problem is the police having essentially a para-military mindset
Yes but you are still blaming the wrong people for the incidents. It's like blaming the explosion on the explosive. The one who lights it up is the one that caused the explosion, no the chemicals. You're using the .01% rule as your argument and that's why it's not valid.
In my opinion, every police officer should be tried before a jury for every shooting
A good start would be making them 100% accountable by putting body cams. I've said this a million times. People keep saying the police has too much power. The power isn't the problem, it's the lack of accountability. Without the body cams their word will always rule in court hence why they do things they can get away with.
The real problem here is the hoax. The mistakes authorities make is a matter that needs to be dealt with separately. Fact is, there are numerous hoax that are responded to properly and the odd one that makes the news for being outrageous.
So instead of blaming the responders we need to blame the people pulling the hoax. There needs to be severe punishment and methods to capture the offenders. The hoax themselves are dangerous and a massive waste of resources.
Authorities needs to put better procedures in place to help weed out potential hoax while keeping the same level of response to critical calls.
That's is the one thing I have always despised about working with MS products. I hope the new leadership is as open as they appear to be. If not, the saga will continue and I don't think they will survive it much longer.
There are also special editions of Windows for the EU that do not include Windows Media Player. There are a dozen versions for the Windows installation media for the different target countries.
People often forget how complicated being big can get when dealing globally.
Foreigners, on the other hand, have no such agreement
The problem is that crossing virtual borders should not be viewed any different than crossing real borders. The only difference here is that virtual borders aren't currently protected (in some countries they are). This is also why governments such as the Canadian government are starting to throw the idea of controlling in/outbound traffic. This is very bad for the internet and we can blame online criminals for this.
Should I serious have to look up every single country's law before I do something, just to make sure I'm not breaking some obscure country's law?
I wouldn't consider a ban on hacking to be an obscure law. Theft or vandalisms is a crime in every country where law enforcement exists.
I guess I can replace my 3 hockey games a week with EA Sports NHL 2015 on Xbox or PS.
Guess the kids can forget about going to the water park too. They can watch youtube videos of other kids enjoying the waterpark
So I guess Pfizer, Intel and Cisco must also be throwing out R&D money out the window since they spend higher percentages of their revenue than MS on R&D.
Please take the time to figure out what MS has actually achieved R&D wise before knocking it down with non factual information.
Lol
I guess a 10 second boot time is long by some standard. There isn't one PC at my work place that takes more than 20 seconds to be ready to work on. I only hear that excuse from bad IT people or IT people with little to no budget which means they are stuck with 7 year old PCs or even Macs. Blaming the OS or the hardware is often just an excuse for laziness.
Any poor integration of any type of hardware or software will always get this kind of response from it's users.
Malicious software and attacks will probably always exists but will become less of an issue with time. The FACT IS that credit card fraud has significantly declined in the last 5 years (even if the number of $$$ stolen has increased, the ratio of purchases to fraud is much lower). I was looking for the a report for VISA showing this but I could not find it. Please link it if you find it.