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Category Archives: Police
Why do people hate cops and who do cops hate?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory frames this as mutual threat perception between two coalitions that routinely impose costs on each other while denying hostile intent. This is descriptive, not justificatory. Why many people hate cops. Cops as direct fitness suppressors Police … Continue reading
Suicide By Cop
Anyone who fights with cops risks his life, and I don’t shed tears when such idiots die, including Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minnesota. These paragraphs from the New York Times struck me: “He was your typical struggling young person with … Continue reading
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Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre
01:00 Bondi shooting,https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/world/sydney-bondi-beach-shooting03:00 Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16539704:00 Bondi terror video, https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/200019225984575521616:00 Live From Bondi’s Flourishing Jewish Community (11-24-21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYhQsNRAlM19:00 Live from Sydney, it’s Friday Morning Live! (11-19-21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11xyqD9M_U35:00 When Billings, Montana celebrated Hanukkah, … Continue reading
Policing After Tyre Nichols (1-30-23)
01:00 We are primarily judged as representatives of our group 07:00 Heather Mac Donald on policing, https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/heather-mac-donald-on-the-tyre-nichols?autoPlay=true 23:00 Illegal immigration 34:45 Luke’s new suit 36:00 Where’s the dashcam video of Tyre Nichols driving recklessly? 50:00 Paul Pelosi’s 911 call 58:00 … Continue reading
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Seven Reasons Cops Are Disliked
Sociologist Randall Collins writes: [1] Police are used for collecting fines for municipal budgets. This has been a long-standing practice in speed traps, where heavy fines are levied on drivers, usually on highways outside of town; since locals know where … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘Cops’ creator John Langley dies during road race in Mexico
From the New York Times June 29, 2021: “In the Academy interview four years earlier, Mr. Langley addressed criticism about race in “Cops” by saying that while 60 to 70 percent of street crime was “caused by people of color,” … Continue reading
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The Jacob Blake Shooting
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Seriously no police or military unit ever trains someone to shoot a person in the leg- it’s a tactical mistake which could cost you your life if you miss, and even if you hit the … Continue reading
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Does Israel train America’s police forces?
Dominic Green writes for the UK’s Spectator: Show me who you lie about and I’ll tell you what you are. The big lie in this, our season of historical illiteracy and gratuitous destruction, is that the Jews are responsible for … Continue reading
How to blow whistles for fun and profit
Most stories about whistleblowers make them seem miserable. For example, the 1973 movie Serpico told the true story of Frank Serpico who went undercover to expose corrupt police. For his efforts, he got shot. This episode of Australian Story tells … Continue reading
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Seething Mob Shuts Down Speech by Pro-Cop Writer Heather Mac Donald as Event Turns Violent
Heat Street: An “angry mob” of protesters effective shut down a speech by a pro-law enforcement scholar at Claremont McKenna College on Friday, surrounding the building, screaming obscenities and banging on windows. Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald, who is … Continue reading
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