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Where's the video?? You mean no one in that neighborhood pulled out a phone to capture these black kids fighting, jumping fences, and slapping white women.

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The taking of video is a young people thing. That's not to say that adults don't ever video anything, but it's not the cultural norm. They are more likely to be upset and call the police or voice their frustrations to the people without thinking to pull out their phones and catch it on video.

In other words, their first thoughts aren't, "Oh this would be good to put on social media" or "Let's get this to the local and national media and get a story started".

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There is no one that can get a shot off after I see what is removed from their pocket

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What do you base this on?

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Only a complete fricking prick with a chip on his shoulder would want to be a pig in today's America. Law enforcement agencies only hire stupid people, because they don't want any critical thinkers, because then you would have employees questioning the fact that they trample on the rights of citizens EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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Ironically, your posts indicate a lack of critical thinking on the matter. At the very least, it shows a lack of research. There are many organizations that do quite well that offer training to police departments on subjects like ethics, policy development, community relations, 4th amendment training, de-escalation techniques, and the lists go on and on. A simple google search and you can see that tons of these organizations exist because police departments hire them for their services. If you don't get what I'm saying, it means that someone capable of making decisions in these police departments cares. There are police chiefs across the nation calling for reform and many have been for a while. Do yourself a favor and google the Madison police department. Look at their Youtube page and watch the video on the style of policing that they promote. There are problems in policing and there always will be because humans are making decisions. Look at any other occupation and you will find the same thing. Police are held to a higher standard and they should be, but you will never weed out all of the bad officers in the hiring process just like you won't in the other occupations. The answer to this is not simply to have officers get a college degree. The problem is in human nature and a degree will not fix that problem. This is not to say that officers should not be better educated. However, to those that say every officer should have a degree, consider that you will be discrediting some of the best officers who ever lived when you make that claim. Some of the best, who know how to talk to people and deal with the public rightly, without violating their rights, never had a college degree. There are scores of blogs from officers and former officers promoting ethical policing, kindness in our interactions with the public, and understanding of what their job is in the first place. How about those of us who find it easy to group all police officers into the same boat, open their eyes to this and start supporting the good ones? Even if you say the good ones are few, do they still deserve to be grouped in with the rest of the "pigs"?

Yea and a bunch of citizens are against legalization too. Everyone has an opinion. Not sure how your post refutes mine other than to show that there are police officers who are not for legalization. They don't make the laws.

Well he is in a college weight program. It's not surprising he is bigger.

I don't think anyone is ridiculing Stevenson. We were all happy he made the play and it was certainly a good play for us. Don't confuse the bigness of the play for it being a great throw. We are blessed to have Stevenson out there. I'm just differing with those who would say he's clearly the best outfielder in college baseball.

It's hard to say who specifically is better than him at fielding balls but he's not nearly the only one who can run down balls and make diving catches. There are others though who are more complete outfielders because they can throw much better. I'm strictly speaking defensively and I don't pretend to know how those guys stack up against him hitting.

I'm not sure how we can have any reasonable conversation about this if you don't think it was a close play. All I can say is watch it again. It's called knowing who you are playing against. A blooper with Stevenson out there you run if the guy isn't slow.

But PM is stupid!

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He over coaches, he tries to go by the book, to a fault. Doesn't really understand or likes "small ball" and if is wasn't for Canizaro, we'd be much worse off. If a pitcher strikes out the side in the 8th, he should start the ninth, at the very least, regardless of the pitch count. If he played with "regular" talent he'd be sub 500 every year. Good recruiter but not a real good baseball coach, average at best, JMO.

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If anyone played with "regular" talent in this league they wouldn't win much. You have to have talent. We have fewer losses the last 3 seasons than anyone else so I guess the pitching choices are working in some way. There will ALWAYS be games when you go back and look and say the coach should have left a guy in or taken him out. Coaches themselves admit this. YOU WILL NOT FIND A COACH WHO HAS ALWAYS MADE THE CORRECT PITCHING SUBSTITUTION. What you are describing is going by the book anyway. The book would say that a guy pitching as well as Poche should be left in for the 9th. It would also say use your closer if you have a strong one. There is only a wrong answer there in hindsight. If you trust your closer then it's not stupid to bring him in for the 9th.