Some dodgy hiring practices too.

"N E W L O N D O N, Conn., Sept. 8, 2000 -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city."

Chauvin best democrat from republican party

yes yes, let's help them by giving them a few decades in prison while their households lose the prime earnings from that person as well as parent and sibling figures in children's lives. that will fix it.

i get being against soft on drugs policies, but the idea that mass incarceration will help people and cure these areas is one of the stupidest things ive read all week. bravo!

The problem is clearly the police and not the corrupt politicians giving them orders /s

So is sending our sons off to kill brown people in the sand.

Yuuuuuuuuup

If we legalize all drugs, won't that solve a lot of the problems? I mean sure, put some age limitations in, but if a person can just go down to the drug store, get their fix, go home and relax with their high, what's the issue?

Let's face it, if it weren't for the strict controls on drugs, a lot of "crime" wouldn't happen in the first place, as it wouldn't be considered "crime". And much of the official stance against drug usage prevents companies from making safer alternatives to things like crystal meth or fentanyl that'll provide much of the high without so much of the incredible risk.

Likewise, if the drugs are legalized recreationally, companies are incentivized to compete driving prices way down, and allows a sales tax to be implemented as well, driving revenue that can be used to help in addiction recovery programs.

If Floyd hadn't gunned down his drugs to avoid a possession charge and reincarceration, would he have overdosed and gone into Excited Delirium? Would he have resisted when put into the cruiser, shouting that he couldn't breathe, he was choking, and demanded to be put on the ground instead?

Prohibition doesn't work. It just takes something that's more of a self-harm and turns it into a criminal act, which ups the price, which ups the level of associated violent crime to be paired with it. Like tell me, how many gangs are willing to commit mass murder these days over the ability to go buy a fifth of your favorite liquid? That's right, none. Are there problems associated with alcohol? Absolutely. But are they anywhere near as bad as those associated with it's prohibition? Not a chance, in the US.

get the government to ban totally for-profit wars and the pharmaceutical industry’s poisoning drugs. fully serious here.

if people cant handle their booze thats on them. i dont want my Friday evening glass of red or two (or three!) with and after dinner outlawed because someone cant put the bottle down between 9-5

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I'm down for ending wars for profit/oil/whatever. Even down with reforming the pharma industry.

I'm not down with banning booze. We've already seen what an abject failure prohibition was, and how much of a failure the drug war has been. Legalize it all, regulate it to allow for safer product, tax it, and put money into treatment and rehabilitation, instead of incarceration. My alcoholism is my problem, and no one else's. It's not my place to tell anyone they can't have their after dinner glass of red.

this trial has become Exhibit A in the evidence to prove that the reality war / culture war exists. Opinions are so insanely polarized. It reminds me of the OJ trial but with a modern social media twist. I suppose the Zimmerman case is extremely similar as well. Where we have national mainstream media outlets acting as if it's up to the defense to prove themselves innocent, rather than being presumed innocent upon irrefutable proof beyond a reasonable doubt