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I live in the PNW, I've been to the area. If spray paint on a police building is lawless anarchy, alright, I guess, but my best friends girlfriend works literal

I live in the PNW, I've been to the area. If spray paint on a police building is lawless anarchy, alright, I guess, but my best friends girlfriend works literally across the street from the police station depicted, and you know what? It's fine. These stories are bullshit meant to rile you up because fear gets clicks. Some folks have a different opinion, but these folks seem to be afraid anytime they see a houseless person, or a needle in an alley way, and neither of those problems have been solved with the ever increasing police budgets, just pushed it to a slightly different area, where the outrage starts all over again. There's a problem, sure, but the police ain't the tool to solve them, no matter how much we would like for complex problems to be solved with simple solutions.

nradov 5y ago
Do you consider this fine? I don't think anyone benefits from a breakdown in civil order and the rule of law. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/ch... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53491223 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53491223
- pope_meat 5y ago
  CHOP was fine. Walked through there multiple times when it was happening because I was curious, it really does appear to me like media blowing things out of proportion for clicks/views.
  - philwelch 5y ago
    Aside from the half dozen people they shot, I guess.
    - pope_meat 5y ago
      What's the excuse for the shootings that happened in other areas that the police didn't abandon? Perhaps it's because shootings happen regardless? But you know, you're right, I'll take the news medias version of events, my eyes were lying to me, since what I witnessed doesn't jive with sensationalist news coverage.
      - philwelch 5y ago
        I’m glad you weren’t there while any of the shootings were happening, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
        pope_meat 5y ago
        I was, a man drove his car in to the crowd, when people tried to stop him he fired once out of his car. He ran past me on the way to the police line (the police hadn't abandoned the precinct yet). So, ironically enough, I was there for a shooting that happened while the police were still holding the area.

nradov 5y ago

Do you consider this fine? I don't think anyone benefits from a breakdown in civil order and the rule of law. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/ch... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53491223 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53491223

pope_meat 5y ago
CHOP was fine. Walked through there multiple times when it was happening because I was curious, it really does appear to me like media blowing things out of proportion for clicks/views.
- philwelch 5y ago
  Aside from the half dozen people they shot, I guess.
  - pope_meat 5y ago
    What's the excuse for the shootings that happened in other areas that the police didn't abandon? Perhaps it's because shootings happen regardless? But you know, you're right, I'll take the news medias version of events, my eyes were lying to me, since what I witnessed doesn't jive with sensationalist news coverage.
    - philwelch 5y ago
      I’m glad you weren’t there while any of the shootings were happening, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
      - pope_meat 5y ago
        I was, a man drove his car in to the crowd, when people tried to stop him he fired once out of his car. He ran past me on the way to the police line (the police hadn't abandoned the precinct yet). So, ironically enough, I was there for a shooting that happened while the police were still holding the area.