Study reveals important truths hidden in the details of officer-involved shootings
Want to be fully informed? Want the real scoop on officer shootings? Then I suggest you read the article I link to above. It offers up a lot of surprises. -Jack
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The author certainly put a lot into this study. I hope it results in better training for officers as well as better outcomes in dangerous situations.
Bottom line remains: If you don’t want to get shot or hassled by police officers don’t behave like a thug/criminal and do pursue activities to better your future. As Mayor Giuliani says, “The cops go where the crime is.”
This study is from 2005.
Off topic.
For you NRA members here is an update on Gover Norquist’s investigation as an agent of influence for “radical Islamists.”
Grover Norquist Voluntarily Suspends NRA Board Activities Amid Investigation:
Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, has been re-elected to the board of the National Rifle Association but will temporarily cease board activities amid an investigation into his alleged connection with radical Islamists, TheBlaze has learned.
“He has voluntarily suspended his Board activities pending the outcome of the investigation,” a statement on the issue, sent to NRA board members last week and viewed by TheBlaze, read. “He is not in Nashville [where the NRA’s annual convention was being held this past weekend]. Any other questions should be directed to Mr. Norquist directly.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/14/grover-norquist-voluntarily-suspends-nra-board-activities-amid-investigation/
Check out the comments too.
Peggy–Good lord. Grover Norquist is not some Muslim Brotherhood agent. The fact that that sentence even needs to be typed is a sign that we are living in truly irrational and paranoid times. Even the group that hosts CPAC has condemned these baseless allegations.
This is fun.
Crazy Lady says Grover Norquist is a radical Muslim because “he has a beard.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAWyDilC-U
It all makes so much sense! Hopefully after exposing this conservative’s stealth jihad, the genius speaking in this video will set her sights on revealing how one reality show family popular with the right is attempting to usher in a dark era of Sharia law through the power of duck whistles.
Yes, it is fun Chris.
Here watch these “crazy” guys lay out who Norquist is behind the scene.
FULL Glenn Beck talks to Frank Gaffney about Grover Norquist link to Muslim Brotherhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezihL_utCVM
Glenn Beck Exposes Grover Norquist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdTGbLs1toU
Glenn Beck vs. Grover Norquist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3JASlHFQA
Beck & Gaffney Expose Terrorist Netowork in GOP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZUTjSufnmc
Don’t take Beck’s and Gaffney’s word about Norquist. Do your own research.
Another Frank Gaffney video worth watching.
“Noted expert on Middle east affairs Frank Gaffney speaks in Whippany, NJ about the threat of Islam. This took place on August 28th, 2014”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Z8n7pzipw
Peggy, Frank Gaffney is a birther who believes that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. He is a literal McCarthyite, having called for “a new and improved counterpart to the Cold War-era’s HUAC [House Un-American Activities Committee] and charge it with examining and rooting out anti-American – and anti-constitutional – activities that constitute an even more insidious peril than those pursued by communist Fifth Columnists fifty years ago.” The man is crazy.
Glenn Beck is…well, Glenn Beck. If you’re still a fan of the guy there’s really nothing I can say to convince you to be skeptical of him.
Figures like this are not just wrong, they are dangerous. They prey on the worst fears of the American people to make money for themselves, not caring who they falsely accuse or hurt in the process. They are the spiritual successors of Joe McCarthy, who was right about some things but totally wrong about the extent of the problem.
I’m not going to bother “doing my own research” into any wild accusations they make at this point, any more than I would research an accusation made by the Ku Klux Klan. They are simply not credible sources, and have lied way too many times in the past to be taken seriously. Mainstream conservatives are not exactly known for distancing themselves from the more radical figures on the fringe these days, so when Karl Rove and CPAC are treating guys like Gaffney as toxic, that should be a big red flag that they are extremists.
Speaking of conservatives banning people from conferences, the Log Cabin Republicans were banned from the “Western Conservative Summit,” a thing I have never heard of but will apparently include a lot of big name anti-gay Republicans:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27920808/western-conservative-summit-creates-firestorm-gay-disinvite
So much for the “big tent.”
Moves like this only hurt the Republican party. Even a majority of young Republicans support gay marriage. The trend is so strong and has accelerated so fast that at this point that I really can’t imagine a Republican candidate winning in 2016 if they publicly oppose same-sex marriage–at most, they will have to have to dance around it like Obama did. The Republican party needs to adapt to this social change, or it will cease to be relevant very very soon.
Chris, I’m about as conservative as they come, but on social issues I find less reason to be conservative and more reason to be Libertarian. I’m reasonably convinced being gay is something a person is [generally] something people have no control over, they are born that way and we see evidence of this in nature in other animals.
A study involving autopsies of gay males revealed consistent abnormalities in brain structures that strongly hinted at a physical cause, not a psychological cause.
As a result of the compelling evidence, I would oppose banning Log Cabin Republicans from any Republican event based on their gender preference. However, if there was another reason, say certain members were out of order and causing a problem or they were pushing a disruptive and divisive agenda, then that’s another story. I think it would be reasonable to ask why they were banned, don’t you? If it’s strictly an interpretive issue from the Bible, then the GOP has a serious religious conflict on their hands that will really hurt them.