Here is why I think that. The deceased fired the taser at the cop. I think that will be the off.
one thing touched on here that i think there'd be more widespread support for than we think is decriminalizing drugs, controlling them, taxing them, and treating addition (rightfully) as a medical issue.There has been a bit of a perfect storm is Seattle regarding homelessness. Cost of housing in the 20-teens went up across the country but here it was really bad with the introduction of Amazon and other tech companies. 50,000+ tech workers making vast salaries quickly rolled into town driving housing costs through the roof. This literally pushed people living on the margins into the streets. Throw in an opioid epidemic at the same time and shit gets ugly fast and as one of the article stated the root of the problem isn’t cost of living, but it made it worse. From the law and order perspective people here are pretty tolerant, much more than I am. The public consensus is throwing people into jail because they are poor costs a lot of taxpayer money and actually makes the problem worse, I can’t say I disagree with that but little else has been done to fix the problem. When you get large groups of people living outside of society lawlessness ensues. Lack of police enforcement definitely makes that worse and it is frustrating as hell. And that lack of enforcement is driven a lot by rules handed down by the government. But the reason why those rules were made is because without them the police were not effectively doing their jobs and abusing their power. Let’s ignore the humanitarian aspect of it, you cannot actively run government when you get bankrupted by lawsuits over excessive police force. All that went down prior to when I moved here, perhaps all those rules and oversight made a better police force. The reaction of the police to the recent demonstrations showed that they haven’t exactly perfected accountability and de-escalation. What could have been a display of responsibility turned into a show of force, which included ignoring orders from both the mayor and the police chief. A direct result of that was the application to remove federal oversight was withdrawn.
The police here have proven to be unable to properly handle problems where social issues and crime are one in the same, and we should be asking if that should really be their jobs. A guy with a gun and pepper spray isn’t really equipped to deal with drug addiction and mental health problems. And that is the whole point to reasonable ideas of defunding the police. Remove that from their list of responsibilities and provide that funding to people who are equipped to solve that problem.
As an interesting note, I think crime around here has certainly increased in certain areas like downtown but overall rates have actually decreased. Another interesting point is that despite having high property crime rates, Seattle has relatively low violent crime rates, similar to Denver and Boston.
‘Third World hellhole?’ New data shows Seattle had lowest property crime rate in decades
For all the caterwauling about public safety in Seattle, here on the streets crime actually went down, across the board, in 2019. Robbery was down 9 percent from a year ago, burglary was off 6 percent. The property crime rate...www.seattletimes.com
1) Sort of, depends on definition of 'at.' You can't be simultaneously 'drunk enough to be a threat in a car' and expert marksman with a tool you've likely never used. I'll give you in general direction.
Rich coming from a person who seems incapable of hearing any opinion other than your own.
Losing control of the gun is their biggest fear.
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Losing control of the gun is their biggest fear.
Police Officer And Bystander Shot And Killed In Weymouth
A Massachusetts police officer and bystander have died from wounds sustained when a suspect allegedly took the officer's gun and fired following a vehicle crash and a foot chase.
In before the 'they don't need gunz
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I was pondering something similar recently.
The conclusion in the last 3 paragraphs is particularly disturbing to me. Y'all maintain legal counsel as a a regular part of life, along with the daycare and grocery bills? I sure as hell don't. And that's also assuming you even live long enough to get to a phone.True or False: You Can Resist Unlawful Arrest – USA TODAY Classifieds
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In summary, you fucked.
Not that it changes intent, but it turns out that taser he grabbed was useless because it had been used....which the cop would have known. So he may have tried but he didn't fire a taser at the cop because it couldn't be fired.
www.apmreports.org
The cop shot the tazer twice, but feared for his life when it was pointed at him. Doesn't that mean he attempted murder twice?
You weren't foolin.
That's what I, and almost every person I worked with at PDX did. Though we went further north to Battle Ground.
I despise portland (or any big city for that matter), but that area from the airport->northeast is really nice.
plus 1.5X OT I would assume.
Whereas that seems to be the sole role for police unions. The one and only union that the right seems to support.
They supported them back when great-great-great-great-grandpappy was an overseer, and they support them to this day.
You spelled 'grand wizard' wrongly
This is a pretty strong union town and political endorsements mean shit. Imma gonna guess this is going to create a split in who the police union supports and all the rest.
I meant to include that in my previous post
No shit that ain’t happening, just more circus and division.
