Right?! The other article linked in the first says;

Bialy said the child’s other parent is a police officer from a neighboring jurisdiction. He said the handgun found at the daycare was not a service weapon.

Oh goody, it wasn’t their service weapon. Nothing to see here, folks. Just a normal gun in the hands of a three year old. Plural because a three year old can’t hold a handgun in one hand. I note that there is not a peep about disciplinary action for the officer who is charged with “creating a risk of harm, which is fourth-degree child abuse.”

Rumors? That’s a funny way of spelling propaganda.

Not really.

“Alaniz then pulled his vehicle on the highway to follow the Mazda for no apparent reason other than the fact that it had a California license plate. Alaniz also ran a query on the Flock system for the California license plate number on the Mazda SUV,” Hill wrote. Alaniz then ostensibly pulled Kyle over for changing lanes without a turn signal.

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“The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

All this ruling means is that they’ll need to come up with a minor traffic violation to pull you over for first, and do the database search second once they have “probable cause.” The ruling doesn’t say they can’t use Flock, just that they can’t use it without some sort of offense being investigated. If this cop had waited until she did a lane change without signaling before doing a Flock search, then it seems like this judge would be okay with it.

This is what happens when corporate crimes are punished with just slap-on-the-wrist fines that can be written off as a cost of doing business. Why should they obey the law? There is no downside to breaking it.

Nothing. The headline and the article do not match.

The judge’s ruling does not label the use of Flock data to aid in arrests as illegal, rather, it clarifies that the officer in this case did not have probable cause to “intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy” with the technology — setting stricter precedent for when law enforcement may employ extensive ALPR databases during investigations.

So the cameras recording our every movement are just fine and dandy. It’s just in this case, the officer didn’t have probably cause to dip into that massive database before noting a minor traffic infraction. It seems like the judge ruled that the officer needed to follow her around until she made an infraction and then violated the hell out of her privacy. So, no real change at all.

Also…

A spokesperson for Flock told The Hill, “The ruling goes against the overwhelming weight of authority in similar cases across the country, including multiple recent decisions in Oklahoma, and we expect it will be appealed and ultimately overturned.”

Yep. I imagine even the very slight limitation to Flock use resulting from this ruling will end up getting overturned by the appeals court, state supreme court or SCOTUS.

When I’m at home I always wipe after pissing. While I’d take a pass on the piss rag in my pocket idea, the name still could apply to men’s underwear. After all, our underwear is soaking up that unwiped piss already.

As I understand it, in states where firing squad is actually a choice, it is usually only when other means are unavailable or have been declared unconstitutional.

“The challenge here is between Democrats who want to destroy the country, who want to permanently disempower you …

Hi, this is your regularly scheduled reminder that every Republican accusation is really a confession.

Yes, I recall the passage clearly. “Love thy neighbor,” he said, “Unless the fucker is brown or queer. Then fuck 'em up!”

The Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that " meaningful appellate review was a prerequisite to any constitutionally acceptable scheme of capital punishment." There are myriad required hearings and appeals before an execution can take place. Those hearings and appeals often take years because of all the trials and hearings over evidence and the fact that the court systems are so backlogged.

All those appeals are important though.

As of June 2021, 33 of the men and women wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death since states resumed capital punishment in the 1970s had waited 20 or more years to be exonerated. Seventeen who were exonerated between 2010 and June 2021 had waited 25 years or more for their exonerations and, for twelve, exoneration took 30 years or more.

It is absolutely necessary to take all this time to make sure that the courts get it right. There’s no going back. If someone gets a life sentence and, three decades later, new evidence shows that they were not guilty, they can be released. If they’ve been executed, then an innocent person is dead and the guilty party will never be caught because no one will be looking for them because the authorities believe the crime to have been solved.

Even with all the mandatory trials and appeals, the courts still apparently get it wrong. I say apparently because the courts are notoriously reluctant to look into cases once someone has been executed. In many cases, it seems like the courts will strive to cover up even prosecutorial negligence or worse in order to protect their own reputation.

Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed issued a report in 2007 finding that Ruben Cantu was guilty of the crime for which Texas executed him in 1993. However, critics have noted that Reed was formerly a judge who handled Cantu’s appeal and set his execution date, raising a conflict of interest in conducing an investigation of his guilt.

You are right, in my opinion, to oppose the death penalty. Despite all the effort to make sure the courts get it right, they still make mistakes and execute the wrong person, which means that the real criminal is still free and a threat to society. Also, because of all the mandatory hearings, DP cases are normally far more expensive to the tax payer than life sentences. Added security and special holding facilities and required hearings mean that death penalty cases end up costing 2.5 - 5 times more than life without parol.

For example:

To try to assess whether there are significantly different costs between these two penalties, researchers sent out surveys electronically to judges, prosecutors, public defenders and victim advocates in nine Pennsylvania judicial districts of varying population sizes and caseloads that had past or current capital murder cases. In its conclusion, the Task Force cited to a 2016 study of death penalty costs by The Reading Eagle (see below for more detail) which estimated that $272,000,000 had been spent per execution in Pennsylvania since 1978. The Task Force also found that post-conviction correctional costs were 47% higher on average in capital cases than non-capital cases, and that there is no evidence that ​“guilty pleas for capital murder cases offset the extra costs incurred and other resources consumed for capital cases that do not result in a guilty plea.”

I agree 100%. I’m completely opposed to capital punishment.

I honestly don’t know about that, but he was an admitted white supremacist.

Wayne responded: “With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”

Resentment? I wonder why?

They kind of buried the lede with that headline. The whole quote (from the article) is:

“But it’s worth saying again, so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”

They also liked Wayne because he was a racist piece of shit just like Trump and his toadies.

Execution by firing squad is still legal in Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. Typically other forms of execution must be unavailable for some reason for them to accept firing squad, but it is still an option.

Poor Disney! If only they had made countless billions of dollars on their assorted IP over the last few years then maybe they wouldn’t be so poor now that they have to layoff their beloved employees that they can no longer afford to pay.

Progressives claim to value women…

Do they? I’ve never heard anyone say they value all women any more than I’ve heard anyone say that they value all men. Progressives, in my experience, value individuals based on their moral character rather than what genitals they have.

Nope. They’ll build a wall to keep out the climate refugees and bitch about it being too hot because liberals screwed up the climate.

What the hell? Did the oil companies forget to bribe him? Er, sorry. I mean did they forget to tip him?

If you are going to insist on using google, you need to add -ai to every search. That will remove that stupid AI overview.

If you use Firefox like I do, you can add a google search option that does this automatically. Use the parameters: https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s+-AI

If you prefer DuckDuckGo, you can add a no ai option by adding a new search option using the parameters: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s