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Jun 24th 2020, 22:53:15

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."
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Jun 19th 2020, 20:36:57

I'll be a sissy and stick to Los Calientes
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Jun 19th 2020, 13:27:03

Originally posted by Cerberus:
Oh, sure, get rid of the cops, that'll solve the problem . BULLfluff, it will bring on the PURGE! Which is something the leftists want. The more chaos they can cause the more effective their pitch to "fix it" by slamming down a tyranny on the US. Remember this, you can vote socialism in, but you WILL have to shoot it out. Oh, oh, that's right, I forgot that the leftists and liberals are all forcibly going to take the populations weapons away since self-defense is "racist, islamophobic, or white supremacist" isn't it?


Can you do us all a favor and put down the Fox kool aid and don't replace it with OAN, breitbart, or any other nazi fluff?
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Jun 19th 2020, 0:19:59

I honestly wonder how much of that is due to our failed war on drugs.
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Jun 18th 2020, 23:57:14

KoH

During the slowdown, police continued to respond to calls, and the arrest rate for major crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand theft auto) remained constant. But the arrest rate for non-major crime and narcotic offenses dropped, as did the number of stop-and-frisk events. It took until mid-January for things to begin to return to normal.
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Jun 18th 2020, 22:34:06

Originally posted by ZEN:

Nate - you need to interpret to me because I don't get it. Not being sarcastic either.

Most of that link is too smart for me to understand. But, this seems to claim that the method of stop and frisk isn't an effective method but increases the crime reporting?

But doesn't that make sense? The less pro-active police work that goes on, the less crime reported in their data set?

Like certain sales people I've dealt with over the years. If you sit and wait for sales to come in, your income will be x. If you pro-actively go after sales your income will be x + n? Does that prove less crime is happening or less crime is being reported? I am sure there is something in the link that addresses it, but I couldn't find it.

Regardless. It doesn't necessarily mean that police stopped responding. It means they stopped preventing crime using the stop and frisk method. They still responded, they just weren't pro-active.


Basically they stopped all active policing for roughly 2 months with non major crime and narcotics arrests dropping significantly. The blue line is from 2013/4 with the yellow line 2014/5 (mid-may to mid-may) with the colored area being standard deviation. Note how close they are outside the slowdown and after the ruling in 2013. Would be nice to have the year after on there, but that's too much effort to try to win an online argument :)
https://media.springernature.com/...211_Fig1_HTML.jpg?as=webp
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Jun 18th 2020, 21:34:11

At the end, right above the button to hit for reader comments Nature Human Behaviour, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5 (About DOIs). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5 And here's the first paragraph of the abstract

Governments employ police to prevent criminal acts. But it remains in dispute whether high rates of police stops, criminal summonses and aggressive low-level arrests reduce serious crime1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Police officers target their efforts at areas where crime is anticipated and/or where they expect enforcement will be most effective. Simultaneously, citizens decide to comply with the law or commit crime partly on the basis of police deployment and enforcement strategies. In other words, policing and crime are endogenous to unobservable strategic interaction, which frustrates causal analysis. Here, we resolve these challenges and present evidence that proactive policing—which involves systematic and aggressive enforcement of low-level violations—is positively related to reports of major crime. We examine a political shock that caused the New York Police Department (NYPD) to effectively halt proactive policing in late 2014 and early 2015. Analysing several years of unique data obtained from the NYPD, we find that civilian complaints of major crimes (such as burglary, felony assault and grand larceny) decreased during and shortly after sharp reductions in proactive policing. The results challenge prevailing scholarship as well as conventional wisdom on authority and legal compliance, as they imply that aggressively enforcing minor legal statutes incites more severe criminal acts.


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Jun 18th 2020, 19:59:20

Originally posted by Requiem:
We need to pay cops more and have better training and hold them accountable to the same law that they enforce on everyone.


Higher accountability for being a person in position of trust, and they already get that higher pay through overtime shenanigans which tells me they should be strict salary. Otherwise I agree, even though it may seem impossible to not be on one extreme or the other these days.
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Jun 18th 2020, 19:30:45

Originally posted by bigdogcwg:
Originally posted by elvesrus:
If you have an anxiety attack because your McMuffin takes an extra minute you aren't stable enough for that badge



Pin a badge on and uniform...take a walk in some of the neighborhoods in Baltimore, NYC, etc. Just try it couple days.

You'll be worried that someone will walk up to you, pull a gun, blow your brains out.

Guess you forgot about the series of ambushes being done on law enforcement? Some responding to a call and being met by a hail of bullets. Some sitting in their cars when someone walks up and empties their gun into it and you?

Come on elvesrus, take a walk on the wild side. See how you do?

Cause I got family and friends and when they go out in public they scope the rooms each and everytime. And when they eat they ask for a table by the wall where they can sit with their backs to it. Not a great way to live but there you go.

BigDog
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Sure, I'll take that challenge. Wont even need a weapon. The trick is earning respect through kindness. Something that today's police forgot long ago.

It also doesn't exactly help your argument that there is real world evidence from 2014/5 that when the police stopped responding crime went down. Almost as if the reason we are where we are is the boys in blue.

https://arstechnica.com/...k-stop-yet-crime-dropped/
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Jun 18th 2020, 16:25:00

If you have an anxiety attack because your McMuffin takes an extra minute you aren't stable enough for that badge
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Jun 18th 2020, 2:12:09

Originally posted by Requiem:
Gotta get rid of the bad cops. It’s prob no surprise to the good cops who the bad ones are. Let’s start w the cops w double digit complaints.


Don't forget to expand the definition of bad cops to those who stay silent about bad cops as well.
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Jun 18th 2020, 0:55:11

Originally posted by Cerberus:
Vote out ALL politicians


FTFY
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Jun 14th 2020, 19:42:57

I wanted to post that as Nate but would have taken too much effort.
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Jun 14th 2020, 8:55:20

This server any good?
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May 19th 2019, 16:20:18

Originally posted by breeze:
Originally posted by elvesrus:
Is something missing in your life but you can't really point it?
Do you find yourself lost on the couch but you don't know how to
explain why you feel that way?
Do you wake up anxious and sweaty in the middle of the night?
Does your meal taste awful sometimes?
Is your girlfriend / boyfriend not enough for you anymore?

I know what's wrong with you!! You miss us!
Earth2025 is history but Earth Empires is at his peak!

Don't be gay. Come back to iMagNum today.
xoxoxox



hahaha funny


I'm pretty sure that was sent out by e1 or wtk
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May 19th 2019, 6:57:22

Is something missing in your life but you can't really point it?
Do you find yourself lost on the couch but you don't know how to
explain why you feel that way?
Do you wake up anxious and sweaty in the middle of the night?
Does your meal taste awful sometimes?
Is your girlfriend / boyfriend not enough for you anymore?

I know what's wrong with you!! You miss us!
Earth2025 is history but Earth Empires is at his peak!

Don't be gay. Come back to iMagNum today.
xoxoxox
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May 16th 2019, 1:24:54

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Bill Burr explains AOC tax plan...
https://youtu.be/TtsNsQ1tcxU


wrong
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May 14th 2019, 23:44:41

Originally posted by mrcuban:
Vote John McAfee for president!


"Whale fluffing. No joke. Each year, on Feb 1st, in the Molokai Channel, a few men compete in the world's only whale fluffing contest. Humpback whales are easy to fluff- for a second or less. World record: 31 seconds. I competed once. Almost got my ribs crushed. Stick with Ostriches."

https://twitter.com/...tatus/1010682321106821125
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May 14th 2019, 21:35:55

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by elvesrus:
Originally posted by Cerberus:
It's time to overthrow the two party dictatorship that the US lives under. There needs to be a grass roots movement


So Bernie?


He'll bend over for the DNC to fluff him in the ass again, they already made their pick, the rest is all show, Biden is their winner in the primaries.


I'd love it if he kept his I if that happened.
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May 14th 2019, 21:17:39

Originally posted by Cerberus:
It's time to overthrow the two party dictatorship that the US lives under. There needs to be a grass roots movement


So Bernie?
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May 12th 2019, 6:44:39

They're screwed if the Brewers sign Keuchel, but looks like he'll be going to the Yankees on June 2nd when comp picks go away
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May 11th 2019, 12:44:15

Originally posted by martian:
a rubber mallet.

++martian


this one work? https://www.amazon.ca/...al-Assorted/dp/B00362RW3M
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May 11th 2019, 10:23:03

Originally posted by BattleKJ:
Is Lord Tarvana really going to beat me up? He showed me a video of himself cage fighting and threatened me like 10 years ago. He should probably be banned.


My cousin could, but he's in Brazil right now to take out a goat.
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May 11th 2019, 6:10:00

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May 11th 2019, 3:02:27

Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by elvesrus:
You made me login :P

I told him you quit. FFS lol


well, when I logged in to irc it told me I've been away for a year and a half, and my posts here agree
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May 11th 2019, 2:38:00

You made me login :P
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Nov 15th 2017, 14:43:10

Originally posted by Gerdler:
you gotta stop being shocked though... he uses it against you so well. The donald trump supporters have no reason to take critizism against him seriously when you throw a fit also over the things they dont care about themselves.

You are on the back foot and he is getting away with real blunders even things like fireing Comey, mishandleing NK and pretty much all international relations, threatening free speech and directing the judicial system to investigate political opponents as you focus on misdemeanors like taking quotes that maybe a bit bad out of context and blowing them up.

So when he pardons Joe Arpio or when he said that there were bad people and ALSO "very fine people" in that marched in Charleston or whereverthefluff the correct reaction is to shrug and realize those are the time you live in while fighting back against the things all can agree are bad.


I was just trying to keep it simple given the one with the request to name one thing Trump has said :)
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Nov 15th 2017, 11:26:17

Originally posted by Cerberus:
It's looking pretty grim at the moment. We've got rabid "Trump" haters running loose everywhere. It's amusing to note that they can't quote any one particular reason, but simply take offense at whatever he says.


"grab her by the fluff"
calling nazis "very fine people"
pardoning Joe Arpaio

need I go on?
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Oct 22nd 2017, 2:33:58

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Oct 20th 2017, 20:48:31

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Oct 20th 2017, 4:58:31

Originally posted by galleri:
Chocolate bars are safe, cacti are safe...pets are safe with the exception of hamsters. Houseplants no.
Using your neighbor's wifi that you stole..safe
Certain food items are safe.
Especially cookies. Must provide recipe though.
;)


https://www.marthastewart.com/.../chocolate-chip-meringues ;)
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Oct 18th 2017, 19:37:35

sure 1 thread is enough, but the trinity is special.
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Oct 16th 2017, 15:30:05

Originally posted by archaic:
There may be some decent players in elders that don't post on the forums, but none of the vocal ones understand the game well enough to accomplish a top 100 finish on a 90 player server.y


Truth
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Oct 15th 2017, 9:48:32

trying to make ford look good? ;)
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Oct 14th 2017, 11:29:44

Definitely worth the 75 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojr6Iy1JlWg
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Oct 13th 2017, 20:51:47

/me takes a close look at Crippler's countries :p
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Oct 13th 2017, 20:49:06

only about 4% as of this post.
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Oct 13th 2017, 20:11:24

Originally posted by clintonista:
The site gets rid of paragraph indents.


It does.

Line breaks work fairly well as a replacement ;)
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Oct 13th 2017, 10:41:17

unless things changed bru has been in stones
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Oct 11th 2017, 21:24:27

All I know is the more countries I lose, the more I win. 'tis the imag way
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Oct 4th 2017, 5:39:09

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Oct 3rd 2017, 6:10:20

sc is on both sides of that and adding laf to the bottom doesn't appear to change anything...
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Oct 2nd 2017, 23:47:02

It's still one more than a ton of actually good to great movies :)
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Oct 2nd 2017, 22:16:49

56 to 43 is not double
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Oct 2nd 2017, 22:05:11

Originally posted by Steeps:
Because Suicide Squad was a pants film so they had to use crew instead to not be associated with it.


Academy Award wining Suicide Squad ;)
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Oct 2nd 2017, 2:10:34

tl;dr?
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Oct 1st 2017, 23:05:08

Just to be an ass, only half the world has winter coming :p
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Oct 1st 2017, 21:43:06

Mueller handing out indictments?
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Oct 1st 2017, 19:01:48

note to self: turn off game activity before playing questionable games
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Sep 29th 2017, 1:15:14

Threaten a nuclear strike? Not even a slap on the wrist

Threaten a mosquito and follow through on it? Banned
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