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Personal view: I understand a safe site where clean needles are provided, would reduce the risk of disease to drug addicts. However, the drugs in themselves are still illegal, and a sale/purchase transaction of said drugs is still incentivizing the criminal aspect (product is being moved for profit.) Now, afore-mentioned drug addicts are required to come up with money to purchase said illegal drugs by likely doing other illegal things (assuming panhandling or legal work doesn't cover the tab completely) Either way, it seems like a self-perpetuating cycle of misery. The drug addict may be getting a clean needle to inject, but the rest of their lifestyle isn't having the risk reduced. And even if they are doing legal honest work to purchase illegal drugs, there is the health effect of said drugs. I doubt it can be argued that an injectable drug is safer than other more socially acceptable intoxicants. I recall reading many years ago that Vancouver put in safe injection sites. Those have unsurprisingly led to other issues in that particular municipality. Latest article I noticed in the National Post mentioned an underpinning of illegal drug empires fuelling everything from real estate booms to money laundering to lord knows what else. damn, i'm chatty this evening. that's a lot of words |
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I told my DW to grab the garden hose out of our garage, and spray our roof and nearest side wall to deter the fire from jumping to our house. (It wouldn't reach the neighbor's house, and the fire was too large for a garden hose to make any difference.) When the fire was out, we noticed that the vinyl siding on that side of our house was wavy from the heat. I started an insurance claim, but miraculously the siding shrunk back into shape after it cooled down overnight. The hose spray probably prevented it from being permanently damaged. Long story short, a low-level drug dealer expired on our front lawn. The local media reports said that they are investigating it as an arson/homicide.....
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06-15-2021, 07:41 PM | #3523 | |
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Thought about it but realized I don't really drive THAT fast and probably cost me more than the rare ticket I might get. I do have dash cam. If I am in an accident and it was caused by the other driver or some moronic biker or pedestrian I want proof I wasn't doing anything wrong. Heck, I don't even drive an hour later if I had a beer at lunch. I do take driving seriously. |
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06-16-2021, 05:24 AM | #3525 | |
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Seems in the US we got rid of the mental ward institutions only last century, in the '70s. https://timeline.com/willowbrook-the...s-c847acb44e0d The temptation to 'lock em up' is always there. Being of Irish/Catholic decent, I've read up on the past treatment of 'wayward' girls by the church & state. I don't have as much knowledge of the Canadian treatment of indigenous peoples, because I always thought Canadians were so good! Terrible stuff can happen under the covers. One block from me we have a Phoenix House, probably ~ a 20 unit building. I walk this block daily (for decades now), with dogs rooting in the gutter, and have never seen a needle. Lots of cig buts, but no needles. The residents have never been connected to car break-ins or such. Such things lead me to thinking that we can do important stuff right, if we can cut the BS (from both sides). Last edited by Littlebear; 06-16-2021 at 05:58 AM.. |
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3% at 50 retirement plan allows public employees to retire any time after they reach the age of 50 and annually receive a percentage of their highest salary as their pension.
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06-17-2021, 05:44 PM | #3530 |
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Hey Sedan_Clan or anyone else in here - do you happen to have a link saved to that study showing the vast majority of crime is perpetrated by the same few people + their networks? It was something like once you get 2-3 degrees removed from the primary repeat offenders, the probability of someone committing a crime of any sort drops to the average or basically almost 0.
By degrees of separation it was like friends, family, neighborhood, etc "network". Can't seem to find the study for the US, just the one done in Sweden.
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New less lethal goodies. We are retiring the stun bag shotgun in favor of the double barreled 40mm.
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The projectile is hard foam. It's much more effective than a bean bag round. People brush off bean bag rounds. They don't shrug these off though. They will buckle you. It's probably the pain equivalent of getting hit with a fast pitch softball.
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It's the equivalent of getting hit with a fast pitch softball (…but it's the size of a golf ball). It's considered lethal force if aimed/fired at the head.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 3@50 is for law enforcement. Other Federal employees generally get 1.7% of highest salary (actually, average of the highest three years of salary) as pension.
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The top photo is the training round (…yellow hard plastic tip). The bottom photo is the field round (…hard foam tip).
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1.5% x high-3 x first five years of service plus 1.75% x high-3 x next five years of service plus 2.0% x high-3 x all years of service over 10 https://ask.fedweek.com/federal-reti...deral-annuity/ 3% is very fair, for a job wherein you stake your lives on. |
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It's observational AND watching what the rounds do to certain types of targets. One can extrapolate……
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