Preach on brother

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

You want equal justice? either pay Public Defenders more and hire more so they can defend poor people bettter orrrrrr abolish the office. Make all private lawyers have to take a certain amount of public cases per month as a price of doing business.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

The Crime Bill had very little impact on local communities because it is a federal bill. Locally, there was a push for the state and local governments to "get tough on crime" and lock "those" people up and throw away the key. I don't think it was the poor who asked for more police. It was the lower middle class, middle class and affluent people who turned on their nightly news and picked up their daily papers and were convinced that some gang banger or evil poor man or woman was going to rape or murder them.

These things were pushed by the media and a developing law enforcement industry. Hiring more cops, taking criminals, guns and drugs off the street was supposed to make these upper class people feel safe. It worked for the affluent and some middle class communities. Not so much for lower middle class communities. Over policing and fewer economic opportunities absolutely devastated poor communities.

Today the same law enforcement industry is talking about criminal justice reform. Not because they're bleeding hearts, but because the bubble has burst. They've pretty much sucked the system dry and the tax base can't continue to support building more prisons or hiring more cops. "Reform" was going to come one way or another. This may have slightly accelerated the process.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

It's still true and would be an absolute bloody disaster. Significantly worse than before.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

This little bit of information is nowhere near close to being factual

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See? We can agree on stuff.

Paying public defenders won't change much. Due to over policing, our system would collapse if every defender demanded a trial. It continues to function at a snails pace because of plea deals.

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Are you sure this time?

Sort of similar to how Marcus Garvey and the KKK agreed on "things"?

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They don't call you Litigation Notes for nothing.

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I don't get that reference.

I know.

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Go back to Africa!

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Or the fact that they drag out the actual results for so long. I mean you got guys in County for years on robbery charges

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Did you all hear the leaked Lightfoot leak?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I got no problem with Southern pride, and I'm a bigfan of Robert E. Lee, but yeah, how this is controversial to some people is beyond me. (Actually, I think I understand it, but I just disagree with it.)

2020 Homicides (and other fun data) https://heyjackass.com/ -- 264

And for 2019 ... https://heyjackass.com/category/chicago-crime-2019/ -- 519

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

One guy predictably doubts the accuracy of the information

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I'm just passing along numbers and their source. Opinion is irrelevant with regard to that task.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I was making fun of you, not doubting anything.

Convenient cover story.

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Only when your initials are LTG are you considered a traitor. His opinion is supposed to count because he teaches history you know. He's all for removing the statues of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee but when they come for Barry's yet to be erected statue after they expose his traitorous activity while POTUS, LTG is going to bear arms and defend his idol, Barry O.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

LTG isn't anywhere near a fan of Obama's.

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GO BEARS!!!

Talked to a friend who's son is s police detective, and the the intelligence he's getting is that they'll be more rioting and looting throughout the year. Anything will set it off. They're using donations, and government handouts to rebuild and reopen ghetto businesses way too soon. Should wait until after the election into 2021.

Almost as much as you believe that your opinion on all things war is supposed to count just because you supposedly did a 1 year stretch in Vietnam.

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Might as well chalk it up to another of the things that this buffoon is ignorant of.

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Nah. And you saying it doesn't make it so. Even though you think that you actually understand history. You actually do not know shit about it and the fact that some stupid people allegedly pay your sorry ass to "teach" anyone just shows the awful state of education in this country.

The Americans who seceded from the Union were no more traitorous than the Americans who revolted from England.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Winners write history.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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Good thing that CPS fires openly bigoted pieces of ahit such as yourself once its discovered that they are bigots.

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