"Manner of walking in roadway."
Probably shouldn't have made my mind up in advance though. THAT WOULD BE WEIRD, AMIRITE?
Damn. There are some things in this report I really want to quote, but I can't highlight them in my browser. Firstly, it talks about how FPD encouraged fund raising over law enforcement. By way of ticketing a ton. Secondly, arresting a guy sitting outside of a ball field in his car for being a pedophile, proceeding to arrest the person at gunpoint when they said their car couldn't be searched. Arresting a person for saying "mike" instead of "Michael" as it said on the license. Not wearing a seatbelt while in a PARKED CAR! And apparently the courts are corrupted by this money grubbing in the same way. Paraphrasing: This study is not just about bias. It is saying that the police officers are picking on the poor people who are going to be outside more, who are going to be more easy to pick on, and so on, and pushing them further into poverty and debt in order to fund their police department and get the city more money. Even more damning, the amount of racial disparity increases massively when the police officer is the one judging when to pull someone over, rather than using some form of tool such as radar. I'm not too sure about the jokes they mention, as it's definitely possible to make common jokes about race while still being able to recognize and combat bias. However, not in company e-mails in a professional environment, and not between police officers. I'm only on the eighth page of this thing, I'm done though. Link:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/mar/04/justice-department-reports-ferguson-michael-brown-full-text It's the second study listed. Also, a study from the same department showed that Darren Wilson shouldn't be charged. It was wrong to assume something from the beginning, and it will always be wrong to do so. What is wrong here is the very large, very provable, and very massive issue of bias. Not how the police officer acted in that instant. Two different cases, with the first being very valid, and the second being not so much. This entire police department needs to be wiped off the face of the earth, and we need a federal law stating that police stations cannot profit off of tickets, nor can the governments that lead them, along with a small army of people doing reports like this, and correctional punishments, to every police department in the country, along with fines for all that are guilty.
Ferguson and the Modern Debtor's Prison: https://hubski.com/pub?id=173699 We knew all of this already. That phrase - "modern debtor's prison" - has really stuck with me, because it perfectly describes what's happening. The poor get trapped in what amounts to a zip code-wide debtor's prison. If there's one technological advance I really hope for, it's ubiquitous cheap transportation, so that lack of economic mobility can be a thing of the past.Paraphrasing: This study is not just about bias. It is saying that the police officers are picking on the poor people who are going to be outside more, who are going to be more easy to pick on, and so on, and pushing them further into poverty and debt in order to fund their police department and get the city more money.
I have been keeping an eye on The Detroit Bus Company for a while; they seem like a cool group. They will be suspending a free service to get kids to after-school programs at the end of the month if a fundraising campaign falls short.If there's one technological advance I really hope for, it's ubiquitous cheap transportation, so that lack of economic mobility can be a thing of the past.
There's an invention called a bus, and on this invention they provide cheap transportation.So to recap: If you provide transportation services just for your own employees, people will say that you’re elitist, that you’re ‘letting’ the public systems crumble because you’ve got your own, and there’ll be protests wherever your buses stop. If you provide transportation services to everyone and thumb your nose at the regulators, they’ll say you’re a threat to consumers and should be shut down. If you try to provide transportation services to everyone while following the rules, you will get fuck-all done. --Mike Blume on Night School Failed Because It Followed Laws
Yes. I think the real(er) problem is that there's more to mobility than the 'economic' side of it. Social, psychological, etc. But most national buses aren't that cheap. EDIT: and I want to make it clear to anyone who reads through that entire Slate Star Codex post that, no, the elves of Mirkwood don't have a fucking thing to do with moose. That's a Peter Jackson Invention TM. I wonder if there's a profession in the insanity I demonstrate in actually caring about any of this. Luckily, my thirty seconds was salvaged when I stumbled upon this illuminatory post -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Moose.