How does this guy still have a career? And, for that matter, how is there still a New York Police Department?
How does this guy still have a career? And, for that matter, how is there still a New York Police Department?

My friend Michael, out in LA, is a photographer and photoshop genius, and he sent me this thing he put together the other day. Posted with his permission.
Seriously though, I am sending thoughts and prayers.

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For those of you who think that 2020 is the worst year ever, consider the possibility that there is no bottom to how bad things can get.
When I started seeing stories about this, my immediate reaction is “someone’s lying.” That’s a given, because exaggerating things just a bit is built into every part of the fabric of US military procurement. As is secrecy, greed, and other bits of Lovecraftian evil. So, take everything here with a grain of salt because public information is mighty thin, right now.
Yesterday I published a posting that was substantially wrong. Ow! [stderr] But, it got me looking into the question of how cop departments pay off awards against them. It’s unsurprisingly murky, but there are stories that indicate how the delicate maneuvers are made.
It was a historic moment, when the city council of Minneapolis agreed that they would defund the police. [npr] But – and there’s always a “but” – guess what didn’t happen?
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