Improving Our Police Forces
A reader sent me this piece, a statement by a police chief:
It’s not the police who need to be retrained, it’s the public. We have grown into a mouthy, mobile phone wielding, vulgar, uncivil society with no personal responsibility and the attitude of ‘it’s the other person’s fault, you owe me’. A society where children grow up with no boundaries or knowledge or concern for civil society and personal responsibility.
He clearly has a point about our disrespectful and non-compliant citizenry. People, and especially our young, don’t have the manners that we oldsters had when we were growing up. But to blame citizens’ behavior and to take no responsibility for things like the spate of deaths of unarmed black people is just atrocious. It’s completely obvious that the police need to be trained in de-escalating situations, using no more force than required, and not treating black people more harshly than whites.
If you wear a badge and reject that, you really need to find another line of work.
Here’s a story of some people who developed a product that plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter and enabled them to drive 3300 miles off a single tank of gas. They say, “Its fuel efficiency is off the charts!”
The word wrong here means incorrect. The most important sense of the word wrong when it comes to Trump is unlawful, illicit, dishonorable, corrupt, unethical, foul, and immoral.
I suppose this is no laughing matter, but there is something humorous about the idea that a fair and objective documentary on anything could possibly come out of Fox News.
A few years back, I attended a breakfast meeting at the New York Press Club at which Amy Goodman spoke. And, to be sure, she’s no megaphone for the corporate-owned media.
If there is a blessing associated with the pandemic, it’s the empowerment of the labor movement.
The owner understands that his employees would much rather be drinking beer, betting on the game, and watching creative commercials than cooking and serving fajitas.
When you see artists’ renderings of the same renewable energy concept year after year, and never a photograph of one actually working, this should be a sign unto you, one that reads: This idea has no validity in the real world.
OK, it’s whom to believe, but this guy makes an excellent point.
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It’s common for people to lament how divisive American life has become. Yes, that’s sad, but it’s one hell of a lot better than coalescing around sheer barbarism, especially in the form of sedition and domestic terrorism.
