I mean, that depends on how the local policies handle enforcement. If you have harsh penalties for turning off body cams, it may prevent some of the more egregious abuses of power. It isn’t going to stop it, or do much of anything about systemic abuse, but it may at least take some of the power to freely be an asshole from a few of the worst.
It’s not a solution to the actual problem, but it might save some lives or at least make it a little harder to hurt people.
The issue is that most places can’t do that because the police unions would never allow harsh punishment for anything and they have way too much power. At least in the US, that is
Yeah, that’s very fair. They tend to have a ton of political power. But in some states where you have something like a ballot initiative process there could potentially be some creative solutions that could be effective.
Like I could see Massachusetts passing some form of police reform by circumventing legislators the same way we did for marijuana.
Tangentially related, but reading this made me wonder how it works for her. The picture shows her with short, open hair and a lot more visible skin than strict islam allows. Special permission? Also, does she need a male guardian around even though she could probably kick his teeth in without breaking a sweat?
The whole thing seems very hypocritical from the saudis; women should dress like beekeepers except when it yields us international renown…
“After all, if it’s your body, it should be your choice,” the organization states on its website”
I am pretty sure Thiel is of the antiabortionist persuasion. At best he doesn’t come out and say it, because it’s bad for his Brand, buy he sure does support all the right things.
So that statement had me guffaw out loud, when read. That’s rich.
It’s ok for Congress to trade on insider info, but it’s bad for a corporation to enter an exclusive streaming agreement. These people are flexible as fuck with their outrage.
2019 Virginia Tech vs UNC. Game went to 6(!) overtimes. Hokies won. I swear that game took a few years off my life. I brought my (then) 9 year old son and told him “I’m sorry, that is officially the most exciting game you’ll ever see. 9 years old and that’s as good as it will get.”
Mine by far is July 7, 2021 when the Bolts won the Stanley Cup at home versus the Canadiens. They had won the previous year, but it was in the social distanced “bubble” finals in 2020, so this one actually had people at it, and they won.
I had painted my beard blue for the entire finals. The big fan group I’m with had been marching through the city down to the game every game night for a few weeks, and then to win it all… Just so so good.
I haven’t been to many football games in my time. Maybe I can count them on two hands and that includes situations where I was part of some promotional event.
But in undergrad, I got to watch Steph Curry play a lot from the student section and it was a delight. We knew he was special way back then, he played with a chip on his shoulder and we thought maybe he would do okay in the NBA. I had no context because there were no other NBA caliber players in the entire conference, so we thought he was good and maybe good enough to make the NBA and stick around a while. But I never thought he would become the hall of famer, record setting player he is today.
Some additional context about Curry in college: he was great, we just didn’t know how well the talent translated. Our conference would get maybe 2-3 games a season against top tier teams (UNC, Duke) and it would always be a blowout. The player of the year was a guy named Kyle “Sir” Hines at Greensboro who was a 6’6" (1.98m) center setting all sorts of historical records. And he even did well against those top caliber teams. And Curry was also setting records, but I think Kyle graduated first and then didn’t even make an NBA roster and didn’t do well in the Summer Leagues.
So we expected Steph Curry to end up somewhere in that range, maybe he would make a roster but probably not have a long career because he was smaller and didn’t have great handles for a point guard. A lot of things broke open for Steph at the right time, from the NBA changing to an easier scoring softer rim and relaxing defensive rules, to teams money balling the sport and figuring out that 3 points at 40% was much easier than 2 points at 60%. And even then it was a difficult choice for Golden State to stick with Curry those first six seasons, over Monta Ellis. They gambled, and it didn’t work until they changed coaches to the first time coach Steve Kerr, which tells how well Golden State was respected. And the rest is history.
Kyle Hines ended up in Europe and had a very good multi-decade career there.
Great context! That’s a perfect summary for the start of his career. I never knew about the softer rim either, makes sense with the explosion we saw in three point shooting.
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