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Russell wrote:That's fine. Let the BLM protestors "shut down" the city. In the mean time let our police force get the vans and cells ready. We have plenty of space for everyone.
Let's see who cries uncle first.
treadlightly wrote:Before I get silly, let me stress my shock at the unprosecuted terroristic threats heard at BLM marches. There is no justification for chanting threats to police officers (while the chanters expect and demand police protection). Let me also express my disgust with the anti-intellectual closed-mindedness of racism.
That said, maybe BLM makes some points.
Reparations might be a great thing. I've got plans on how to spend my share. But I've gotten worried. Probably nothing to it, I'm probably borrowing trouble.
As Cleavon Little famously admitted in Blazing Saddles, my grandmother may have been Dutch. I'm half German. My Dad's family is from Wales. My wife descends from prominent Civil War ancestry including a Confederate General. Her family bought the Mclean house, where the Civil War surrender was signed, and lived there for 20 years or so post-hostilities.
All of which woke me with a start last night, just as I was dreaming of spending my reparations on schnitzel at Oktoberfest while vacationing in Bavaria.
What if I'm not black enough? I've already budgeted my share, I'll be ruined if my reparations don't come through!
Unfortunately for BLM, many of their tactics are not protected speech under the Constitution. I believe that local governments are going to have to enforce their ordinances requiring permits in order to protest. Which, by the way, the courts has generally upheld as being constitutional.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What it boils down to is this - everyone (well, nearly everyone) is afraid of being called racist if they question or oppose the BLM or the current POTUS or anybody of color in between. Look no further than the gutless GOP majority in congress. It's political correctness run amuck!bblhd672 wrote:Unfortunately for BLM, many of their tactics are not protected speech under the Constitution. I believe that local governments are going to have to enforce their ordinances requiring permits in order to protest. Which, by the way, the courts has generally upheld as being constitutional.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
You are correct. The inability to (at the risk of being called racist) call a spade a spade is ruining this country (and the civilized world).Oldgringo wrote:What it boils down to is this - everyone (well, nearly everyone) is afraid of being called racist if they question or oppose the BLM or the current POTUS or anybody of color in between. Look no further than the gutless GOP majority in congress. It's political correctness run amuck!bblhd672 wrote:Unfortunately for BLM, many of their tactics are not protected speech under the Constitution. I believe that local governments are going to have to enforce their ordinances requiring permits in order to protest. Which, by the way, the courts has generally upheld as being constitutional.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Jusme wrote: Where's my check? I am part Native American, I know we are owed big time.
Oh well, while I'm waiting on my big payday, I'll just go to work, pay my bills, raise my children properly, provide food clothing and shelter for my family, then get down on my knees and thank God that I am fortunate enough to live in a country that provides me the opportunity to do all of the above.
Sounds like a plan. I think I'll do exactly that as well. 
Just calculated it and much to my surprise 10 hours of 1080DPI video is almost 1/2 a terabyte; much more than I thought.nightmare69 wrote:I couldn't even imagine the terabytes of data from just one day worth of HD bodycam video for all the officers in Houston.
That is the issue small departments face. Sure there is grants to buy the cameras but the Dept is left to foot the bill for the servers to store the video. People want the bodycams to record the entire shift and store the data for X amount of time. That is going to cost a lot of money to purchase the servers. There are still some depts who drive around beat up cars and don't even provide their officers with body armor. It's up to the officer to supply his own.steveincowtown wrote:Just calculated it and much to my surprise 10 hours of 1080DPI video is almost 1/2 a terabyte; much more than I thought.nightmare69 wrote:I couldn't even imagine the terabytes of data from just one day worth of HD bodycam video for all the officers in Houston.
Video shouldn't be a problem for LEOs or Civilians, it typically makes everyone behave better.
If I was HPD I would offer to livestream LEO's cameras and then BLM can handle the storage and storage cost any way they like.
Uncompressed, yeah. Using, say, blu-ray's compression should make it take about 1/4 of that (I doubt blu-ray's compression scheme is the best).steveincowtown wrote:Just calculated it and much to my surprise 10 hours of 1080DPI video is almost 1/2 a terabyte; much more than I thought.nightmare69 wrote:I couldn't even imagine the terabytes of data from just one day worth of HD bodycam video for all the officers in Houston.