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If anyone wants to email the good sheriff of Hall County - tom.heck@co.hall.tx.us. 

I did reach out by phone, but they did not answer.  (806) 259-2151

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4 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

DPS literally took down the "Contact us" website for the public to reach out to them about Blue Alerts...lol this is the most crooked ass Texas gubmint shit...

Like I said, call your rep. The staffers I spoke to also got the alerts and didn't sound happy about it, so there's a decent chance it'll actually hit their desk and they'll push from their position 

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What y'all fail to realize is that cops are gods.  They are above us mere humans.  So we should jump up when they say so.  If a cop is even minorly inconvenienced at 4:53 a.m. (say, for example, his preferred donut shop does not have the chocolate covered sour cream donut that he demands), all of Texas should be awakened to make things right in the world.  Your betters, your superiors, your heroes, nay, gods in blue, DEMAND it.  Who are YOU to refuse, peasant?  DANCE, PEASANT, DANCE!

Imagine a way that cops can hold the rest of us in complete disdain and contempt.  Then realize that the cops already thought of it first.

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Blah blah blah.  All of those rules are overridden by the only rule that matters: you are a peasant, inferior to cops, and thus they can do to you whatever they want, whenever they want.  

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2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I don't care what he did to a cop, if I'm on the jury I'm nullifying. 

"I mean, yeah--he killed a cop.  But on the other hand, they shouldn't have woken me up at 4:53 AM to tell me about it.  NOT GUILTY!"

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6 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

"I mean, yeah--he killed a cop.  But on the other hand, they shouldn't have woken me up at 4:53 AM to tell me about it.  NOT GUILTY!"

Didn’t even kill him.

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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

"I mean, yeah--he killed a cop.  But on the other hand, they shouldn't have woken me up at 4:53 AM to tell me about it.  NOT GUILTY!"

Even if he did kill him, which he didn't, what the hell am I, a random person trying to sleep in Houston which is almost 500 miles away, supposed to do when DPS pushes this alert and all the phones in my house go off at 4:53 am? Am I supposed to strap up with my utility belt and Batman leotard and cape and start looking for 33 year old white man wearing a t-shirt and blue jeans to beat to a pulp? The whole concept of the "blue alert" is dumb pro-cop propaganda and blasting them out statewide is even dumber.

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3 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

It's an abuse that is going to have a real-world consequence as everyone disables their emergency alerts on their phone.

So when there's a tornado that nobody gets notice of, or when there's a kidnapped kid that nobody knows about, you can thank DPS and the Hall County Sheriff's Department.

Buncha stupid fuckwads.

This fact should not be overlooked.

As a result of law enforcement abusing the Extreme Emergency notification system, people WILL turn off those notifications.

And it is thus just a matter of time until someone who would have received a life-saving emergency alert....does not receive that alert, and suffers serious injury/death because they missed an important warning.

That is how much contempt the cops have for you: their quest to get revenge for a wrong done to one of THEM is more important than YOUR life and safety.

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1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Even if he did kill him, which he didn't, what the hell am I, a random person trying to sleep in Houston which is almost 500 miles away, supposed to do when DPS pushes this alert and all the phones in my house go off at 4:53 am? Am I supposed to strap up with my utility belt and Batman leotard and cape and start looking for 33 year old white man wearing a t-shirt and blue jeans to beat to a pulp? The whole concept of the "blue alert" is dumb pro-cop propaganda and blasting them out statewide is even dumber.

What kind of Texan are you?  You're supposed to grab your Colt, saddle up your horse, and join the posse that presumably was riding at dawn.

I mean, if you had done that you'd at least have made it to Columbus by now.

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What y'all fail to realize is that cops are gods.  They are above us mere humans.  So we should jump up when they say so.  If a cop is even minorly inconvenienced at 4:53 a.m. (say, for example, his preferred donut shop does not have the chocolate covered sour cream donut that he demands), all of Texas should be awakened to make things right in the world.  Your betters, your superiors, your heroes, nay, gods in blue, DEMAND it.  Who are YOU to refuse, peasant?  DANCE, PEASANT, DANCE!
Imagine a way that cops can hold the rest of us in complete disdain and contempt.  Then realize that the cops already thought of it first.

They’re titans. It Greek mythology, the titans were greater even than the gods.
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And the response from DPS? An apology for breaking their own rules by sending it out in the middle of the night, and for sending it statewide when a local alert would do.

I’m kidding, of course. DPS says “fuck you, we’re cops and we can do whatever we want, because we’re heroes in emergencies”:

“Blue Alerts have been in the law books and active in Texas since 2008. DPS sent a statement about its function.

"We would like to remind the public that Blue Alerts are urgent public safety warnings that are meant to warn people of possible danger. They are designed to speed up the apprehension of violent criminals who kill or seriously wound law enforcement officers by generating tips and leads for the investigating agencies, and therefore giving those agencies the best opportunity to apprehend a dangerous criminal," DPS said.
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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


And the response from DPS? An apology for breaking their own rules by sending it out in the middle of the night, and for sending it statewide when a local alert would do.

I’m kidding, of course. DPS says “fuck you, we’re cops and we can do whatever we want, because we’re heroes in emergencies”:

“Blue Alerts have been in the law books and active in Texas since 2008. DPS sent a statement about its function.

"We would like to remind the public that Blue Alerts are urgent public safety warnings that are meant to warn people of possible danger. They are designed to speed up the apprehension of violent criminals who kill or seriously wound law enforcement officers by generating tips and leads for the investigating agencies, and therefore giving those agencies the best opportunity to apprehend a dangerous criminal," DPS said.

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There was absolutely no information in that alert that would help catch that guy.  They can pretend someone didn't fuck up, I guess.

Well, they DIDN’T fuck up. See, they’re cops, and cops don’t ever do anything wrong. If they do it, it’s perfect, and we should bow to them, because they are our betters and therefore everything they do is divine. Bow, peasant.
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Oh, and if you'd like some insight into how cops feel about being held accountable, see the comments after the Austin cop was convicted on a deadly conduct charge:

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Retired Austin police officer and expert witness Jerry Staton is concerned after Austin Police Department (APD) officer Christopher Taylor was found guilty of deadly conduct in the 2019 shooting death of Mauris DeSilva, a man suffering mental illness who was armed with a knife.

"[It's] A huge slap in the face to the entire department, it just is," Staton said. 

The conviction marks the first time an Austin police officer has been found criminally liable in an on-duty fatal shooting, in a department facing more than 300 vacancies. 

"It's one more step towards an overly demoralized agency. Really, the officers are going to take this hard. The people who are thinking about becoming officers are going to give it a second thought," Staton said. 

Translation: unless you let us police EXACTLY the way that we want, with ZERO accountability or repercussions, we aren't going to do the job.  Hell, see the way that APD isn't really bothering to police this city right now, because they're busy being pouty and petulant.

So, America, that's our choice: lawless/bad cops, or NO cops.  That is what the cops themselves are telling us the choice is.

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On 10/4/2024 at 1:54 PM, Ghost of LL said:

what the hell am I, a random person trying to sleep in Houston which is almost 500 miles away, supposed to do when DPS pushes this alert

Lock your doors and hide if you fit the suspect description.

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absolutely enraging. cops pull up on a deaf black man with cerebral palsy, jump out and immediately beat the shit out of him, choke him, punch him, and tase him, and then charge HIM with multiple felonies, which to this point a judge has ruled as fair. all cops are evil, and if there is a hell, they will be surrounded by familiar faces. the horrible video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/SCJaAyGo3d

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

absolutely enraging. cops pull up on a deaf black man with cerebral palsy, jump out and immediately beat the shit out of him, choke him, punch him, and tase him, and then charge HIM with multiple felonies, which to this point a judge has ruled as fair. all cops are evil, and if there is a hell, they will be surrounded by familiar faces. the horrible video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/SCJaAyGo3d

I watched several YouTube breakdowns of that arrest and it was F'd up from the get go. Lazy cops with authoritah issues. Exactly what the DOJ was talking about.

 

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

absolutely enraging. cops pull up on a deaf black man with cerebral palsy, jump out and immediately beat the shit out of him, choke him, punch him, and tase him, and then charge HIM with multiple felonies, which to this point a judge has ruled as fair. all cops are evil, and if there is a hell, they will be surrounded by familiar faces. the horrible video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/SCJaAyGo3d

The guy shouldn't have been a thug.  We have to let police do their job, even if they have to be extraordinarily rough.  If you had one day, like one real, rough, nasty day, if you had one really violent day, even one rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and crime will end immediately.

Right?

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On 10/11/2024 at 4:03 PM, Derka said:

absolutely enraging. cops pull up on a deaf black man with cerebral palsy, jump out and immediately beat the shit out of him, choke him, punch him, and tase him, and then charge HIM with multiple felonies, which to this point a judge has ruled as fair. all cops are evil, and if there is a hell, they will be surrounded by familiar faces. the horrible video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/SCJaAyGo3d

Judges need to be held accountable.  

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This lady's not exactly high on the charm meter, but being treated like a criminal simply for answering the door in your underwear in the middle of the night tends to sour the ol' disposition. During the arrest, she claimed to be married to an ex-cop and a "Back the Blue" advocate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOzALipvJs

(YouTube won't allow embedding but it's worth a watch.)

Incidentally, all criminal charges were dropped almost immediately, though a civil suit is now pending.

Also, the police never contacted the husband, nor did they ask him to collect the dog as they told her they would. Instead, they left it with Animal Control.

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9 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

This lady's not exactly high on the charm meter, but being treated like a criminal simply for answering the door in your underwear in the middle of the night tends to sour the ol' disposition. During the arrest, she claimed to be married to an ex-cop and a "Back the Blue" advocate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOzALipvJs

(YouTube won't allow embedding but it's worth a watch.)

Incidentally, all criminal charges were dropped almost immediately, though a civil suit is now pending.

Also, the police never contacted the husband, nor did they ask him to collect the dog as they told her they would. Instead, they left it with Animal Control.

I presume we're giving the cops a grade of B+ for this, simply because they admirably refrained from shooting and killing her dog?

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11 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

This lady's not exactly high on the charm meter, but being treated like a criminal simply for answering the door in your underwear in the middle of the night tends to sour the ol' disposition. During the arrest, she claimed to be married to an ex-cop and a "Back the Blue" advocate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOzALipvJs

(YouTube won't allow embedding but it's worth a watch.)

Incidentally, all criminal charges were dropped almost immediately, though a civil suit is now pending.

Also, the police never contacted the husband, nor did they ask him to collect the dog as they told her they would. Instead, they left it with Animal Control.

Lolz what an absolute farce. Even with the fucking body cams now they cannot keep themselves from fascist-ing all over the place.  
 

here’s hoping they knock on the wrong door one day and get some rock salt to the face for their troubles. 
 

FAC

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27 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

This lady's not exactly high on the charm meter, but being treated like a criminal simply for answering the door in your underwear in the middle of the night tends to sour the ol' disposition. During the arrest, she claimed to be married to an ex-cop and a "Back the Blue" advocate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOzALipvJs

(YouTube won't allow embedding but it's worth a watch.)

Incidentally, all criminal charges were dropped almost immediately, though a civil suit is now pending.

Also, the police never contacted the husband, nor did they ask him to collect the dog as they told her they would. Instead, they left it with Animal Control.

I don’t think I would be very charming if put into the same situation.

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17 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

If I'm ever arrested again, which is unlikely because I'm a middle aged white, I will shit and piss all over the squad car. 

At your age, is that really a "tough talking threat," or more of a polite warning of what will most likely happen?

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LA Times Editorial Board about the financial hole the city has dug for itself:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-18/los-angeles-latest-budget-crisis-is-self-inflicted

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Los Angeles is teetering on the edge of a fiscal emergency, with its finances in “dire” condition and no money to cover unplanned expenses after a series of lawsuit payouts blew a hole in the city’s already-tight budget.

So if you were hoping this would be the year that City Hall, in preparation for the 2028 Olympics, would get moving on smoothing busted sidewalks, fixing burned out street lights, trimming trees or any other public investments to make the city nicer for residents and visitors alike — don’t hold your breath.

L.A. is broke. Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council have to get serious about developing a plan to stabilize the city’s finances this year and for the future.

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It won’t be an easy task. In just the first three months of the fiscal year that started July 1, the city is on the hook for $258 million in liability costs. The largest category of payouts — 40% — is related to police department negligence or use of force. 

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Contracts are negotiated in secret, ratified by union members and quickly rubber-stamped by elected officials, many of whom rely on labor unions for campaign contributions. There was little discussion last year of how providing $1 billion in police raises over four years would affect the budget and how other employee unions would expect similarly large increases. Nor was there public discussion on the agreement to let park rangers and some police officers turn their good pensions into great pensions at a one-time cost of $23 million to the general fund; voters will decide on Nov. 5 if that deal goes forward with Charter Amendment FF.

Bar chart showing liability payouts in the City of LA  Text says: "THE CITY OF LA HAS SURPASSED ITS $87 MILLION LIABILITY CLAIMS BUDGET: WE'VE SPENT $97 MILLION IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR"   Bars are higher depending on how the payment amounts are with Police having the tallest bar with $59,391,312   then:  Miscellaneous  $21,519,428  Street Services  $6,110,000  Transportation  $5,600,000  Fire  $2,126,566  Sanitation  $1,136,793  Engineering  $846,633  Rec & Parks  $250,000

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