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Maybe they offer him a million a year for the next 40 years.

As if anyone in the Astros bullpen could intentionally hit a batter if they wanted to. Laureano is lucky it was Castellanos and not James. James will get it up around 100 with zero control whatsoever.

Biden should name the shitters after him at every federal building and park.

They are also mostly all streak hitters that have slumps at various times of most seasons. Every year, Springer has good season stats, but he has always alternated between ice cold and burning hot and has never been consistent. Same with Correa. And to a lesser extent Bregman and HR Altuve. Can't afford that shit in a 60 game season though. Need more consistent hitters like Brantley. And need situational Altuve back instead of HR Altuve.

Wearing another team's doctored logo is about as aggy as you can get.

Way better to just cut business owners a blank check and not have any of it trickle down to workers.

I have never once heard a native English speaker say Thighland.

Dirt's alright. It never hurt anyone. Smeared dogshit would make a better president. Probably smells better too.

No shit. If someone did that to my kid, the police better bring the coroner with them.

There's a military challenge edition bible?

Yep, also Biden isn't going to fix it. Tax revenue will still pour out of blue states into states like Mississippi and Oklahoma. Blue state infrastructure will continue to crumble and be severely outclassed by European and Asian infrastructure. Mississippi and Oklahoma will never have viable economies of their own because they don't want viable economies. A break up is in order no matter who wins.

Funny how "Yankee state" only matters if its a Dem. Meanwhile, they eat shit straight from the Depends of a "Yankee state" elitist fascist.

So while y'all are complaining about the NRA on the Trump thread, the Trump owned federal government is paying for Texas and Florida's national guard deployments in full, while not doing so for governor's that don't suck his dick. Not sure how Abbott gets on his knees, but he does it. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-national-guard-coronavirus-texas-florida/index.html I still wonder how this union is beneficial for blue states considering we pay significantly for a federal government that does nothing for us when we need it.

If Republican lawyers had privileged access to things in discovery that were damaging to Dems, you can be sure that they would magically leak due to "hackers," Russian or otherwise. Dems are always trying to play it by the book. They have yet to realize that there really is no book.

Surprised they fell for the driving to Alaska charade. The first road crossing to Alaska from Canada is like 1500 miles from the Washington border. Seems like saying you were driving to Point Roberts would be the easier scam. Although easier for Canadian border patrol to monitor as well. For sure, if the tables were turned, we wouldn't let them or Mexican citizens drive through our territory to an exclave. They should tell us to pound sand.

But you need to pay McKinsey millions of dollars to bring the Bobs in to reorganize police into their same command structure. Just so you can train them to patrol and get to know people without killing them, or to implement recruiting that focuses on hiring from the local community. You can't change anything without consultants.

Organizational design matters not. They will have teams, bosses, and middle managers like always, call them whatever you want. I want beat cops trained to patrol proactively and engage positively with their community. This would also, at times, make them point people for calling in other professionals. No police should ever patrol with swat type armament. This is entirely different from their current behavior. Not more of the same at all. Ban the union from providing legal defense and from any involvement in defining job roles, disciplinary rules, or disciplinary proceedings.

How is that more of the same? Its more like the complete opposite of the same. Cops aren't currently part of the communities they serve. At all. They are entirely reactive, and they mostly live in parts of towns are suburbs that are almost all white. You know what you do for someone who sells loose cigarettes? You take their stash and send them home. When they do it the next day, you do the same thing. Eventually they stop trying it or they run when they see you. But you're there every day, so they give up anyway. You don't swoop in and choke them to death. You don't even need to arrest someone for something minor like that.

Communities are more diverse and inclusive. PDs need to reflect that. There are plenty of black and gay owned businesses on main street USA. They want relative safety on their streets. They want their kids to feel safe. Right now, the police are more dangerous to them than crime is. Once that changes, they'd welcome community patrolling. Black and other minority communities have also existed for centuries. They've simply never had a police force that reflects that. This isn't even that hard to fix. Encourage minority outreach and recruitment. Require that a certain percentage of new officers live in the community they work in. LGBTQ support will likely continue to be a problem, but its a different problem. The police force, like many other historically fraternal organizations, is not a very friendly place to work for an openly gay person.

Tanks? Those are for small town PDs. The hot item now is an F-35. What else are we gonna do with the ones Turkey is sending back? They are gonna look good with "to protect and to serve" painted on the side. Plus, some swat members get hurt when killing people on no-knock warrants. Better to just do it with a jdam.

Yeah, although I don't know why he'd go to China for it. He could just throw a shitton of covid stimulus at Kodak or the My Pillow guy and they'd refit their factories for ballot fraud.

Okay, so if you are going to have the gov't/public establish the entirety of the hiring/training rules, then what is the point of having a private entity run it? Almost every city currently has underfunded social work, homeless outreach, anti-drug(rehab), and mental health departments in some form. Defunding the police means sending more money their way and adding them to the 911 dispatch hotline. It also means shifting funds to proactive crime reduction endeavors like education, job placement and training, and youth centers. Nothing need be "radically different." Police need to be members of their community like they used to be. They need to actively engage with that community as people even when no crimes are occurring. People like to make fun of "Mayberry" policing as something that can't exist, but it has existed before. The only "different" thing it needs is to be more inclusive as to what defines a "community" and who belongs in it. Demographically, police should also match the neighborhoods they patrol. Policing is inherently a gov't/public action. It needs to be fixed, but it needs to remain in the hands of the gov't. The unions can and should be broken. Perhaps we should also have elected or mayor appointed mediators/judges in charge of disciplinary proceedings and have jury duty for these proceedings as well. We can even apply this across the board to public workers. Everyone likes to bitch about teachers unions too, and bad teachers getting paid while sidelined. The same thing can happen there too.

Of course. Its all a set up. Any time Trump drones on and on about the other side doing something, it means he is actively doing it. It may end up looking like an old Saddam election or a Putin election. If anyone knows how to rig a vote while in power, its Putin. Trump is learning from the best. 1) Trump's team will submit a handful of fraudulent Biden mail-in votes that will be "discovered" in several states, and also by the DOJ. 2) Trump's team will submit fraudulent Trump mail-in votes for millions of registered voters who don't normally vote. These won't be "discovered." 3) Trump's team will submit fraudulent Trump mail-in votes for 100s of 1000s of registered Dem voters These will cancel their vote entirely as their real vote, mail-in or in-person, will be thrown out along with the Trump ballot. These also won't be "discovered."

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I think that police are currently well paid and this creates a competitive marketplace for the jobs. A private company in the business of policing would pay the bare minimum to the people responsible for actual policing, and those "police officers" would be poorly trained and doing the job, not by choice, but because they have nothing else they can do. That is what happened with private prisons. I'm sure a private company can pay shareholders and C levels extravagant amounts while paying minimum wage to the actual producers in their companies and be more economically "efficient" than publicly run PDs. But overall their police work would be worse. They'd do less actual policing and more actual fucking with people because you would be essentially giving rent-a-cops real police powers. There is a solution to the union problem. Allow the union to manage benefits and collectively bargain for salary which are beneficial both to officers and the community. Ban the union from providing legal representation or from being involved at all in disciplinary matters. I think you are also confusing true private companies with companies that run exclusive gov't contracts. You are going to get entrenched monopoly level performance out of any private company. Think Comcast or your local utility provider. These are pseudo-gov't slow moving entities. They aren't going to be swayed by anything. At the end of the day, there would need to be gov't action in order to change their behavior. Just like now with public PDs.