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4516 [lbo-talk] Elections -- rank: 72

... immigrants and same sex marriages, but rejected > collective bargaining for police officers in Montgomery county > http://www.gazette.net/article/20121107/NEWS/711079527/1007/montgomery-county-police-lose-effects-bargaining&template=gazette > > This goes with my earlier ...

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Author:	Andy
Date:	Wed Nov 7 10:49:14 PST 2012

4517 [lbo-talk] Elections -- rank: 72

... immigrants and same sex marriages, but rejected collective bargaining for police officers in Montgomery county http://www.gazette.net/article/20121107/NEWS/711079527/1007/montgomery-county-police-lose-effects-bargaining&template=gazette This goes with my earlier ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Nov 7 10:10:01 PST 2012

4518 [lbo-talk] What happened to the Occupy movement? -- rank: 72

Chuc G: "I think as the cuts deepen, public employee unions will start to become more heavily involved, since a lot of those jobs have no private alternative or no acceptible alternative. As poverty deepens, then the more liberal religious associations will get more involved..." [WS:] Hopefully. As I see it ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Thu May 24 14:42:43 PDT 2012

4519 [lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raisemoney forlocaleconomies? -- rank: 72

Joanna writes: > My dimming memory tells me that starting in the early 80's > a lot of PDs started financing themselves from their new > ability to seize property, at al. in the process of the > drug war. No? I seriously doubt anyone is "financing themselves" on the basis of drug seizure ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed May 9 16:43:09 PDT 2012

4520 [lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raise money forlocaleconomies? -- rank: 72

... is, it's dismally inefficient at it. In most cases, police and the court system are a serious drain on everyone ... not to mention GDP). So unless you can find a police department or a court that pays for itself -- or even ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed May 9 16:24:55 PDT 2012

4521 [lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raise money forlocaleconomies? -- rank: 72

... is, it's dismally inefficient at it. In most cases, police and the court system are a serious drain on everyone ... not to mention GDP). So unless you can find a police department or a court that pays for itself -- or even ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed May 9 16:14:03 PDT 2012

4522 [lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raise money for localeconomies? -- rank: 72

On 2012-05-09, at 1:33 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > ...there has been a dramatic decrease in crashes (and thus injury/death) due to DUI in the past 20 years; in many places DUI has been replaced by driving-while-drowsy as the number one cause of accidents. And other ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed May 9 11:25:00 PDT 2012

4523 [lbo-talk] is law enforcement a way to raise money forlocaleconomies -- rank: 72

... say you are riding your bicycle in a town. The police > don't like you for whatever reason and stop you ... vehicle code which includes showing identification when stopped by the police. Maybe you picked a bad example here, but if that ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed May 9 09:38:55 PDT 2012

4524 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland reports and pics -- rank: 72

... survey (NCVS) intended to capture victimizations not reported to the police. Since the perps of unreported crimes cannot be jailed for ... other factors as well. Not all crimes reported to the police result in conviction. More importantly, multiple offenders can produce multiple ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed May 2 10:17:09 PDT 2012

4525 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland reports and pics -- rank: 72

Well, the police were doing their job, so to speak. Shops were ransacked ... 5/2/2012 3:04 AM, Joel Schalit wrote: > > >> The police were awful. > > If you can't find a job, be ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Wed May 2 03:22:01 PDT 2012

4526 [lbo-talk] Question re: the "Stand Your Ground" defense that wasn't -- rank: 72

... on, when asked why they hadn't arrested Zimmerman, the police claimed that they had no grounds to do so based ... Ground" law ever been cited by anyone of consequence - Sanford police, <> Zim

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Mar 27 08:39:31 PDT 2012

4527 [lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing -- rank: 72

... is that by no stretch of imagination can the American > police-judicial-correctional apparatus be considered the expression of a > decent ... one's resistance to the social order includes opposition to police forces, criminal courts, and prison systems - not the presently-existing ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Fri Mar 23 18:42:50 PDT 2012

4528 [lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing -- rank: 72

... it became a media circus, no further action by the police is warranted: this is a job for the DA. > And ... an evolving story. I'm sure there was some sloppy police work involved here, but the "worldwide scandal" happened after things ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Fri Mar 23 18:36:16 PDT 2012

4529 [lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing -- rank: 72

... wrote: > > I don't know Shane's position on the police-judicial-correctional > apparatus > as a whole, but in cases like ... is that by no stretch of imagination can the American police-judicial-correctional apparatus be considered the expression of a decent ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Mar 23 18:25:12 PDT 2012

4530 [lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing -- rank: 72

... too far in protecting people who shoot others; whether the police chief in the Florida town should be fired. [WS:] which ... fucking limpdick state passed. Based on what I read, the police acted properly by not charging Zimmerann, since in the past ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Fri Mar 23 08:29:00 PDT 2012