The article specifically mentions deputies, and how they don’t spend time on violent crime, but the article never mentions ONCE, detectives, whose sole job is investigating violent crime. I’m not pro-police in any way, but… yeah. Also it seems like this article was written by an angsty teenager with lines like:
The departments were mostly non-responsive to my questions.
Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco said the data – which is self-reported – is flawed. All four departments declined to answer specific questions about how officers spend their time, and didn’t provide contradictory information.
I’m all for criticizing the police, let’s just write it a bit better next time, huh?
This is all fairly standard information for reportage involving coverage of an institution or organization–i.e., noting that they were contacted regarding the report, asking for a response, and detailing any pertinent information from the response. In this case, the response did not provide any further information on the report. What are you taking issue with? The comma splice?
Maybe you’re too stupid to understand, but just because you don’t have to make another account to participate in different instances doesn’t mean anyone cares about your despot-worshiping bullshit outside of your home instance.
Seriously, if the .ml instance is just as infested with these disgusting people as lemmygrad, there’s no point to us participating in the discussion. Don’t engage with tankies.
Russia is the aggressor and the US stands with Ukraine and helps them.
China pretends to be ‘neutral’ in a war so glaringly having a country violate the sovereignty of Ukraine but then secretly support the aggressor.
What is so difficult to understand? Or do you purposefully try to muddy the waters by invoking “whatabout…?” and see if the countries supporting Ukraine could be slandered?
This war could not be more clear in who is the aggressor and who try to help the violated. The fact you feel the need to point in all directions and try to steer attention away from where we should be paying attention to is in itself a despicable act, only the logical conclusion I am left with is that you somehow feel aligned with russia and it’s war path against others. You created a moral outrage where other should feel bad but the only thing you have truly done is put a stain on your character. Pathetic and shameful to be basically rooting for russia at this point.
This war could not be more clear in who is the aggressor
Ofc it could be clearer. For example: The US invasion of Iraq was a an actually unprovoked invasion
You’re just late at learning about a border conflict at a time of horrible escalation and don’t have anything but imperialist propagandaof a meddling party to draw conclusions from.
And no I don’t have the emotional energy to spare to discuss it here I just want to signal much needed dissent to people stumbling over this thread
You prohibiting current actions because of <fill in the blank>. This attitude might seem nobel or informed but whatabout is your true argument and it gets you nowhere.
The fact you sow doubt on the invasion of Ukraine as ‘perhaps russia had a point to start killing civilians’ is despicable and tells me you are a russian puppet or bad faith actor, just to muddy the waters.
Imagine being against unjust invasions (and there is a point to be made for that) but when clear and present danger presents itself you use unjust invasions to justify the war of aggression perpetuated by russia. The irony probably slips right by you. Well, it would if your mindset is to ‘level’ all events as ‘the same’. Pathetic and dubious at best.
This war could not be more clear in who is the aggressor and who try to help the violated.
US/NATO is the aggressor. Russia has liberated the people undergoing ethnic cleansing by Ukraine’s Nazis. Educate yourself. Grow up and get your head out of American propaganda.
Look here, another russian troll wanting to make fascist russia the good guy. The only good thing about russia is nothing, there is no good thing. A country of criminals and thugs. It will take a generation to repair the horror and criminal behaviour of that vile country.
Criminals, all of them. May russia collapse and turn to oblivion, we do not need that patch or moronic criminals in this world.
If this is the same blursty as on Reddit he was pretty active in one of the Ireland subs for a fair while. People will have different opinions to you occasionally
So you’re okay with them using chemical weapons, petal mines (which they have), bioweapons… just anything goes, right? The people of Crimea and Donbas are “defenders”, can they do anything too?
It is well documented, by Human Rights Watch and others, that **the Ukrainian military **has used cluster munitions. There is nothing to support a claim that Russia has done so. The Pentagon has rejected the earlier claimed evidence of Russian cluster munition attacks:
Commenting on videos depicting alleged Russian cluster munition use, DOD officials stated during a March 1, 2022 press conference that “we’ve seen the same video that you have but we have not assessed that it is definitive with respect to the use of cluster munitions. So we are not in a position to confirm the use of cluster munitions at this time.” In a similar manner, a DOD official stated during March 3, 2022, press conference that DOD was still unable to confirm Russia’s use of cluster munitions.
So you’ve an issue with the effects of a weapon leaving the AOR but no issue with a weapon that still kills people over 70 years later.
Get some consistency man, you’re all over the place.
It may surprise you to know that in a thread where I advocate for the US giving Ukraine cluster munitions, that I don’t care that Ukraine has been using cluster munitions.
As stated by another, your Pentagon source is out of date. It’s pretty funny though that you reject HRW saying Russia is using them, but use HRW as your source that Ukraine is.
WRT chemical weapons: different things are different. When you can contain things in an AOR, I’m less concerned about the lingering effects. Areas can be closed off and cleared, especially when you’re the one that dropped them. That’s way less possible with chemical weapons, that will literally drift with the wind.
No, nothing surprises me with hopelessly brainwashed supporters of fascist Ukraine. You don’t care because you have no consistent moral principles. On the one hand you pretend to care about chemical weapons affecting the wrong people and on the other you don’t care because your “side” is using them. You can’t even offer a plausible excuse.
It’s pretty funny though that you reject HRW saying Russia is using them, but use HRW as your source that Ukraine is.
Not funny when you know that HRW is an arm of US propaganda., so when it says something negative about a US ally, you can take them seriously, because they couldn’t deny it and had to admit it to try to appear to be impartial.
Over the past decade, “consistently less than half of all violent crime and less than twenty-five percent of all property crime were cleared…
The response to a car break in is always, just call your insurance company. Imagine if they took it seriously and used forensic tools. Most car breakins are done by a small number of the same people.
But now he has grown into a real leader of people. Just look at the people around him on photos released from the kremlin (lowercase on purpose) and of Zelensky (uppercase on purpose) visiting his troops.
Nice. We Czechs remember how it feels when Russia thinks your country should be theirs. This won’t solve anything but I think it’s a nice gesture of solidarity with our Ukrainian friends.
The solidarity with the Ukranian friends is to ban russian or belarussian athletes? Even if they are against the war, which is a pretty dangerous position to be taking if they plan to get back to their country?
Wimbledon banned russian and Belarusian athletes last year. With the ban being lifted for this year’s event. One Belarusian athlete (victoria azarenka) was even boo’d at Wimbledon after her loss against Ukraine athlete Elina Svitolina, who refused to shake hands with any Russian or Belarusian.
Azarenka is openly against the war and has been since the war started, but is still being treated unfairly as a villain.
I understand this is a near impossible task, but sports (particularly the athletes) and politics should stay separate.
I understand this is a near impossible task, but sports (particularly the athletes) and politics should stay separate.
That ship has sailed in the 1936 at the latest. Every authoritative regime will sooner or later try to use successes of their athletes for propaganda(the “neutral flag” sham notwithstanding). There is no reason to give them the opportunity.
And that it affects the careers of the athletes? Maybe, but let me remind you that Ukrainians are still dying, probably by hundreds a day. And so do their athletes.
So much this. If you allow your government to pull shit like that and expect your sports career to be unhampered in any way she should take the streets. Not whine.
Many of these athletes don’t even agree with the war and many are public about this disagreement.
Even the Olympics allows these athletes to perform under a none disclosed flag.
Why should Russian and Belarusian athletes be punished individually for the actions of their countries government?
I’ll point you to Wimbledon this year where Belarusian Victoria Azarenka was unfairly boo’d off court after her loss with Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. Azarenka has been openly against the war since it started. Why should she be punished?
Apparently this is how things are. It is a shame to see how individual responsibility, very valuable European value, is treated recently by some Europeans . But it looks like this is the reality of war. Things are not normal. Hopefully they will get back to normal someday soon.
I am Belarusian, I migrated with my family away from Belarus few years back in fear of politically motivated prosecution, before even the war begun. I had to experience this kind of attitude, my bank accounts were frozen for some time and there are still limitations to get a medical insurance. Surprisingly I never ever heard a bad word from Ukrainians themselves living here. They are amazingly understanding.
That said, I believe sport is bit different. At top level the athletes are often representatives of their countries. At international level sport is neatly intertwined with politics (especially so in post-USSR countries). So… yeah… that’s bad, but as Belarusian I fully support ban of Belarusian athletes from international competition, purely from respect to Ukrainian athletes, who shouldn’t be forced to shake hands with them. Also I keep supporting all sorts of sanction towards Belarusian and Russian regimes, even though it can inconvenience me as a side effect.
I also do not understand, typical keyboard warriors. Maybe we should also ban everyone with russian nationality from playing sports all together, ban them from supermarkets, gas stations… After all, this war was a consensual decision from every citizen.
Imagine believing that nobody really has to understand code anymore. Fine, give it a new name, but people aren’t programmers if they mostly use AI and don’t really understand how it works.
If they understand how it works, it’s just like googling how to program, which really is just normal programming.
This always comes back in cycles. You don’t need programmers, just have analysts write their requirements in English! And that’s how we got COBOL (common business-oriented language) and programmers didn’t disappear.
Then when had other stuff like “low code and no code”. Graphic designers with grant promises of “citizen developer”.
All these have failed to remove programmers entirely. Why? It’s straightforward: defining software requirements in a concise way can’t be done in a better way than in code. Because that’s code, translating the requirements in a language that both a human and a machine can interpret reliably.
AI can do a bunch of things via prompts but how many prompts is it going to take to make a complex piece of software? And who is going to check the code that specifications have been well implemented?
Yeah, I’ll impress a bunch of managers with simple CRUD applications, and prototypes and perhaps save a lot of time in repetitive, boring basic functions but programmers are going to be needed.
Edit: Oh and it is in Nvidia’s interest for companies to invest heavily in AI and buy their hardware so of course their CEO is promising AI will solve all your problems as long as you pay him $$$.
The breaking of traffic laws IS criminal. I live in Houston, which has by far the craziest drivers I've seen in the US, and every day I wish there was more effort by the police to do something about it.
Police in my town spend a significant amount of time at the scenes of car accidents. I wonder what percentage of their time?
Their priority should be on crime and accident response and prevention and I feel like it is in my small town. I don’t know how this compares to police in larger cities, which makes studies like these valuable.
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