This is interesting. I loved the roach metaphor and thought it was a "good" eulogy, but I thought his delivery absolutely sucked. I was left wishing that another black pastor delivered the eulogy. I would have even taken Obama fumbling through scripture.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Fuck off.

Youre such a scared, ignorant little pussy, you won't look in the mirror or even entertain the concept of White Privilege.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

All of this sucks. One half of the country thinks the police are undercover KKK agents while the other half thinks we're a perfect society. The truth isn't even in the middle...it's like in fucking outer space. Fuck all this shit everything sucks.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I don't think this is true. I think there is near consensus on the underlying issue, even among the police.

Part of me wonders if you could really sell the idea of a private security firm now. Not like ADT or some rent-a-cop who's job is to just call the real police, but armed private paramilitary groups that provide neighbourhood security. I think we are almost there.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

You know the conclusions of the protests are arriving when they have one in my area. I'm still probably going to go with my boys, not to protest but so I can say I matched Nas.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Mine as well do it. And the gangs can be the police in the inner city neighborhoods. Seems like that's already happening anyway. No official police. No signs of bias anymore.

Beg to differ. One side says blacks are disproportionately targeted while the other side says blacks make up an insignificant amount of victims compared to other races and that blacks are way more likely to die as a result of black on black violence more than anything else. And round and round we go.

Minneapolis city council is not-so-seriously debating whether to disband the Minneapolis Police Dept. Like just straight up get rid of it.

Now is the perfect time for an enterprising young lad with a couple million to burn to offer these current cops a hundred grand or so a year, load up on surplus MRAPs and old Kiowa's and build a private army. Subscription service law enforcement.

Good for Minneapolis. Reminds me of when the NYPD went on unofficial strike and crime went down

Beg to differ. One side says blacks are disproportionately targeted while the other side says blacks make up an insignificant amount of victims compared to other races and that blacks are way more likely to die as a result of black on black violence more than anything else. And round and round we go.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

they still responded to violent crime calls and those crimes remained basically constant. the state kept its monopoly on the use of force and there was no real indication that violent or serious property crime would go unpunished.

what did happen is that there were fewer tickets and fines issued and city revenues went down. saying there was less "crime" is disingenuous, as nobody really considers the revenue collection services performed by police but deigned by municipal government as actual crime-fighting.

Seems like you are very secure in your position. Since you are so offended by white privilege renounce your race, give your possessions to black and brown people, and move to Englewood.

There were less major crimes reported. That's a fact. Not talking about parking tickets.

All of this is happening as New York has had one of its safest years in several decades. Crime dropped 4.6 percent from 2013 to 2014, and the city had the fewest murders since it started keeping track — in 1963. That broader trend is much more well-established than week-to-week fluctuations, so it's important not to put too much stock in the numbers for the last two weeks.

That said, it appears that crime over the two weeks of the shutdown is lower than it was in 2013-14 (with one exception: there were slightly more robberies the week of December 29 than there were the previous year). However, major crime rates rose from the week of Christmas to the week of New Year's — while they'd dropped from one week to the next last year.

It's possible that the rise in crime is due to broader awareness of the slowdown (though violent crime arrests aren't dropping as much as arrests for other crimes).

However, for many, the bottom line is that there hasn't been a drastic increase — that a 55 percent drop in arrests hasn't led to a 55 percent increase in crime.

There's a board outing coming up?

Man. The bow and arrow guy is taking L's left and right this week

The menstrual cycle changes among Hassidic Jewish women was something as well.

There's a board outing coming up?

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Spaulding is organizing it right now