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ithacane said:
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Police: 17-year-old Florida student charged with felony after violent assault of teacher

Teacher allegedly took suspect’s Nintendo Switch away from him in class.
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Florida teacher says she didn’t confiscate student’s Nintendo Switch before vile beating

“I just want to set the record straight. I never took the Nintendo Switch from him. From anyone that’s read or heard differently, I’ve been told this was unfortunately misinformat…
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The troubled teen has a violent past and was arrested three times for simple battery in 2019.​
 
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Chicago election result portends impending showdown over policing​

Voters in Chicago denied Lori Lightfoot, who made history as the city’s first openly *** and Black female mayor, a second term amid concerns over rising crime, which increased by 41% between 2021 and 2022. Lightfoot, who cruised to office in 2019 on an anti-corruption platform, had been widely criticized for the high crime rate in America’s third-largest city.

No candidate in the Democratic stronghold clinched over 50% of the vote needed to win outright this week, so the two remaining candidates – both Dems – will go to an April 4th runoff, with the controversial issue of policing underscoring the stark divide between them. On one side is Paul Vallas, who has drawn criticism for past comments and for associating with the Windy City’s controversial police union leader. He promises to add hundreds of officers back to the police force if elected.

His challenger, Brian Johnson, favors investment in services like housing, education, and mental health over more policing. Amid rising post-pandemic crime in major US cities, political differences over investment in public safety measures will play an increasingly central role in US mayoral elections. We’ll be watching as Philadelphia and Houston head to the polls later this year.
 
I thought this was interesting, with all the negative publicity, I had assumed that the US had the highest incarceration rate. And this doesnt count the true numbers in countries that are highly oppressive, like China, Russia, Iran, etc.

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The Graphic Truth: How does El Salvador's prison rate stack up?

El Salvador now has the highest prison rate per 100,000 people in the world – but how does that compare globally? Here we take a look at the countries with the highest official prison rates.
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SpikeUM said:

Chicago election result portends impending showdown over policing​

Voters in Chicago denied Lori Lightfoot, who made history as the city’s first openly *** and Black female mayor, a second term amid concerns over rising crime, which increased by 41% between 2021 and 2022. Lightfoot, who cruised to office in 2019 on an anti-corruption platform, had been widely criticized for the high crime rate in America’s third-largest city.

No candidate in the Democratic stronghold clinched over 50% of the vote needed to win outright this week, so the two remaining candidates – both Dems – will go to an April 4th runoff, with the controversial issue of policing underscoring the stark divide between them. On one side is Paul Vallas, who has drawn criticism for past comments and for associating with the Windy City’s controversial police union leader. He promises to add hundreds of officers back to the police force if elected.

His challenger, Brian Johnson, favors investment in services like housing, education, and mental health over more policing. Amid rising post-pandemic crime in major US cities, political differences over investment in public safety measures will play an increasingly central role in US mayoral elections. We’ll be watching as Philadelphia and Houston head to the polls later this year.
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If Brian Johnson somehow pulls off the upset... put a fork in Chicago...

it's over
 
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Thug breaks through child's bedroom window in middle of night — but Dad gets whole family out of home, grabs machete, and takes hack at crook

A man broke through a child's bedroom window in the middle of the night at a home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier this week — but the child's father managed to get his whole family out of the home, grabbed a machete, and took a hack at the intruder. What are the details? Officers were called to a...
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Cops added that at one point the homeowner grabbed a machete and struck Copeland with it, after which the suspect barricaded himself in a back bedroom, police said.​
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Aided by a police dog, officers took Copeland into custody, police said, adding that he was taken to a hospital with severe cuts and injuries from broken glass and the machete strike.​
 
ithacane said:
If Brian Johnson somehow pulls off the upset... put a fork in Chicago...

it's over
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Realistically, Chicago and Illinois are in a death spiral because of their pension debt and poor finances. Johnson would just accelerate that decline.
 
I recently was involved in a discussion about the lack of leadership in hospitals and that spilled into the wider world. Basically, the one director referred to it as inertia management. Underqualified people are doing the bare minimum to make sure that whatever they're responsible for keeps moving forward. There's a pervasive belief that the system will just keep going and the one or two little things they add that might negatively impact productivity won't have a major impact on the organization as a whole.

Applying that to cities like Chicago, you have a mayor who might take some populist action because it will help their popularity and generate positive press, but figures any negative impact will be so minimal that nobody will notice. These things add up and you have the situation they're in now.
 
JD08 said:
I recently was involved in a discussion about the lack of leadership in hospitals and that spilled into the wider world. Basically, the one director referred to it as inertia management. Underqualified people are doing the bare minimum to make sure that whatever they're responsible for keeps moving forward. There's a pervasive belief that the system will just keep going and the one or two little things they add that might negatively impact productivity won't have a major impact on the organization as a whole.

Applying that to cities like Chicago, you have a mayor who might take some populist action because it will help their popularity and generate positive press, but figures any negative impact will be so minimal that nobody will notice. These things add up and you have the situation they're in now.
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Kinda like a popular opinion in your base that the climate is in serious jeopardy and the world may be in a death spiral (maybe even less than 12 years remain... lol) and that fossil fuels are the devil and we need to get rid of gas cars, stoves, etc?

But that directly impacts the price of everything ... and everyone that is in the middle class or poorer suffers what some would call a "tax on those making less than $400k"?

Kinda like that right?
 
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