Scumandvillany

Scumandvillany t1_isvw5g5 wrote

I have always been as critical of the police as of Krasner. Probably even more so of the police. their incompetence is deep and institutional. At least krasner is semi open about who he is, though I vehemently disagree with his operational decisions, but not so much what he ran on(focusing on violent crime vs nonviolent crime). Though I will admit that it does seem that completely abandoning minor crimes seems to have not been the right move.

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Scumandvillany t1_isvvcor wrote

Yeah this is the big problem for me. Even Rynhart herself isn't really articulating strongly the sheer depth of the incompetence of the police and their ineffectiveness and lack of efficiency and organizational transparency. We need someone to call this shit out LOUDLY AND OBNOXIOUSLY, and at the same time criticism of Krasner is definitely warranted, especially his attitude on gun possession charges.

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Scumandvillany t1_isudq8q wrote

11-22 per district seems low as fuck. There's 21 districts, you take an average, that's 350 police on average on patrol. There's not a distinction made for shifts, but it seems they're all on 12 hour shifts lately, so what, that means 175 officers on patrol in the entire city at a given hour? That is incredible. Damning actually. Maybe I'm reading it wrong and that means 350 per shift for 700 or so assigned to patrol, that's like 14-% of officers assigned to patrol. It's complete institutional failure.

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Scumandvillany t1_isu7ssu wrote

"A handful of officers sole responsibility is to physically deliver on paper interdepartmental memos"

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK

MANDATORY REASSIGNMENT TO WALK A BEAT

Seriously, a politician could make huge amounts of hay by criticizing the police and saying at the same time we need police but we need them to modernize and improve operational efficiency.

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Scumandvillany t1_is6ml8t wrote

The thing is, there is no going back. The cow has been milked, the wench has been fucked, the cats out of the bag. There are 600 plus million firearms, and there's 3d printers and open source plans that can do more.

There's trillions of rounds of ammunition floating around.

The Swiss can purchase fully automatic weapons at a whim. Is their murder rate awful? No.

We've got systemic problems, equality issues flow through from that, and we've got an ineffective police department that can't solve shootings at more than 10%. Its pathetic.

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Scumandvillany t1_irku2bw wrote

If by a gem you mean the bartenders mostly are dour, except for that one woman who likes my sunglasses, it reeks of cigarettes and is smoky dirty as fuck, and beers are still 3.55?, then yeah. Personally it's my CC favorite, alongside Oscar's, dirty franks, locust bar, and brownies.

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