Enforcers category archive
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.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Aside:
Thom seems to have forgotten what century this is.
Boys Being Boys? 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear posts another in his continuing and only slightly tongue-in-cheek series exploring white pathology. It’s his effort to debunk what he describes as “the false narrative that the pathologies of black people are what’s to blame for their economic and social inequality in American life, not systemic racism.”
A nugget (emphasis added):
Please do read the rest.
Rousted 1
At Psychology Today Blogs, Lynne Soraya remembers when, after she packed up her belongings in a rented van and moved across the country, she was lost and confused on a strange road in unfamiliar territory and a cop decided that she was driving in a suspicious manner.
Given that level of intensity that had developed in a matter of minutes, the intensity that left me staring down the barrel of a gun, it’s interesting what happened next. Nothing. The gun dropped as quickly as it had been raised. The officer’s manner changed in a split second.The very second he saw my face. I didn’t even have to speak. His utter confusion at seeing me was evident, even to me. Even in that moment. So why was that?
Follow the link to find out her answer.
Public Relations, International Black Eye Dept. 0
The first half-hour or so of this week’s Linux Outlaws, hosted by an Englishman and a German, was all about events in Ferguson, Mo.