Enforcers category archive
It’s How You Look at It 0
At Philly dot com, Elmer Smith points out that perspective is important. (Put another way, persons see what they expect or want to see.) A bit (emphasis added):
It’s a bull’s-eye view of the kind that too often ends with an unarmed black youth killed or maimed by a white policeman whose lethal reaction is fueled by fear.
Any situation seems ominous when seen through the narrow perspective of a gunsight. Every move is menacing, every gesture threatening.
Sham Sandwich (Updated) 0
Addendum, a Little Bit Later:
PoliticalProf agrees. A snippet from his response to a reader’s question:
So no indictment is no surprise.
Power Grab 6
I think Jason330 nails it, or, at least, a lot of it.
SWATting at Flies 0
Jim Hightower reports on the Florida police department that used a SWAT team to raid a properly-licensed barbershop for barbering without a license.
Really. They did.
Keystone Kops in the Keystone State 0
Shaun Mullen still has questions.
Parking Wars 0
A state judge has declared a St. Petersburg, Florida, parking ordinance “unconstitutional.”
I suspect that that’s some kind of first.
Shoot the Messenger 0
At the Bangor Daily News, a guest blogger marvels at the difference in police tactics in responding to the violent riot in Keene, New Hampshire, and the almost-entirely peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri. She offers a theory of causation; here’s a snippet:
On Being while Black 0
Thom and Joe Madison discuss events on Ferguson.
Keystone Kops in the Keystone State 0
Shaun Mullen has an update on the fustercluck search for a domestic terrorist in Pennsylvania.
“The Talk,” Reprise 0
Another black man shares his memory.
I brushed him off. I thought that in my majority-black hometown of Newark, racism would not reach me. Little did I realize that a healthy fear of the police would become a survival skill for a young black man.
My wake-up call came at 16.
Follow the link for the rest of his story.
TSA Security Theatre 0
What you don’t know won’t hurt them.
Director of Aviation Kim Aguirre told council members on the city’s public safety committee that two highly publicized stowaway incidents at Mineta San Jose International Airport this year were the only “major” breaches in her 19 years at the airport. But she said the federal Transportation Security Administration prohibited her from releasing more information about those or any other incidents.
More “What you don’t know can’t hurt us” at the link.