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Comment Re:The death of leniency (Score 1) 643

No, his solution is to jail the first people who film rabbits and then have the law repealed due to it hitting someone who has the resources to call out the stupidity of the law, INSTEAD of having even more people jailed for filming rabbits because anyone with resources to fight the law getting a free pass from the cops.

The question is whether someone will get jailed for photographing rabbits or not. It is a question of whether the police can use that law as a means of harrasing and abusing people for their own benefit.

Comment Re:Will the cameras work? (Score 1) 643

True. What would be even better is if we could get criminal cops' accomplices prosecuted due to these cameras. Currently, we have a system where the cost of enforcing the law on police carries a higher price for other police than abetting the criminal activities of their fellow officers. We need to turn that around and make the cost of abetting criminal activity to have a higher price than arresting a cop.

The current situation is why I don't believe there are 'good' cops. Any cop that witnesses another cop breaking the law and does not enforce the law against him is an accomplice. Corruption is to wide spread for good cops to exist in our current environment.

Comment Re:I like... (Score 1) 643

Given that every street light in my county already has cameras attached, it seems we are already committed. I am still amazed at how easily the population accepted thousands of cameras to be installed around the county.

As far as I am aware, this is the norm throughout Northern California. Is this not common in other parts of the country?

Comment Re:I like... (Score 1) 643

We all know that purchase price is only a small fraction of TCO. Even if they get the military equipment for free, it isn't free to maintain it. Claims that there is little to no cost involved in purchasing military equipment isn't even a good lie.

Comment Re: The world we live in. (Score 1) 595

Everybody does not know that. I have no experience with GHB, and don't know anyone first hand that does. A search didn't find anything that said that. Do you have a link? I don't ask that to be snarky. I knew that it was usually put into alcohol, but had never heard anything about it requiring large quantities to function.

Comment Re: The world we live in. (Score 1) 595

Given the simplicity of putting on nail polish, the drawback of wearing it would be pretty small. Remember, while the rate of drugging rapes is small across the whole population, there are a lot of women going to situations that they know have an inordinately high likelihood of someone raping them, and Not to mention, they are going already going into it with the intent of drugging themselves with a drug that induces poor judgement.

As with any security measure, it is a question of balancing convenience, cost, and risk. Going to a 3 year old's birthday party? Don't need it. Going to a frat party where you already know a couple of the guys are rapists? Yeah, the nail polish is probably a good idea.

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