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> "You are more likely to be violently attacked working at a convenience store than being a cop." > You are absolutely more likely to be shot at while serving

by Forbo 6y ago

> "You are more likely to be violently attacked working at a convenience store than being a cop." > You are absolutely more likely to be shot at while serving a warrant, than working in a convenience store. Do either of you have statistics? > Yes it is. [1] (from the AP, not Fox News) Have a little Google yourself. Serving a search warrant on a statistician who blew the whistle on corruption is nowhere near the same situation as serving a search warrant on drug dealers. Come the fuck on.

jariel 6y ago
1) The article clearly makes a distinction between the types of warrants. Serving warrants in general dangerous, point blank - and even 'white collar criminals' who don't answer the door are giving indication that something may be up. It's 100% reasonable for the police to have their weapons upholstered at that point and well within reasonable SOP. 2) There's no evidence of corruption on behalf of the officials in Florida - this is the continued misrepresentation of some in the press, and easy echo-chamber populism. There as an argument over how data should be represented; disagreeing with your employer is not 'whistleblowing'. Again - Florida releases considerably more detailed information than they do in any province in Canada and somehow, everyone seems to think that we are doing 'such a great job in governance'. The overall level of wilful ignorance on these nuanced incidents in shameful. Even so-called smart people believe what their emotional triggers and biases want them to believe. I'm looking forward to hearing what the courts have to say about it.
- jkhdigital 6y ago
  I think this story might be the case study I use to open a discussion about news bias with my 66 year old father. We live in FL and I had a brief discussion with him sometime during the summer about our state's pandemic response. He mentioned something about the governor trying to hide data, and I was like “...huh?” and after hearing this story today I connected the dots.

by Forbo 6y ago

jariel 6y ago

1) The article clearly makes a distinction between the types of warrants. Serving warrants in general dangerous, point blank - and even 'white collar criminals' who don't answer the door are giving indication that something may be up. It's 100% reasonable for the police to have their weapons upholstered at that point and well within reasonable SOP. 2) There's no evidence of corruption on behalf of the officials in Florida - this is the continued misrepresentation of some in the press, and easy echo-chamber populism. There as an argument over how data should be represented; disagreeing with your employer is not 'whistleblowing'. Again - Florida releases considerably more detailed information than they do in any province in Canada and somehow, everyone seems to think that we are doing 'such a great job in governance'. The overall level of wilful ignorance on these nuanced incidents in shameful. Even so-called smart people believe what their emotional triggers and biases want them to believe. I'm looking forward to hearing what the courts have to say about it.

jkhdigital 6y ago
I think this story might be the case study I use to open a discussion about news bias with my 66 year old father. We live in FL and I had a brief discussion with him sometime during the summer about our state's pandemic response. He mentioned something about the governor trying to hide data, and I was like “...huh?” and after hearing this story today I connected the dots.