Your comment reminded me of number stations. They are radio broadcasts with seemingly random numbers getting transmitted every now and then. A well known one is “The Russian Buzzer”

They are really long range, and just about anyone can listen in to these transmissions. But only a tiny number of people (in the buzzer’s case maybe Russian spies) know the meaning and act on those signals.

I guess my point is that ultimately nobody can really stop the signals, including dog whistles. And I think it’s silly when people try to make some of those words taboo. For example if “roommates” is a code word for a queer couple living together the legit use of the word doesn’t just disappear

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last I heard everything is a dog whistle for everything

Good ole Baghdad Bob, the OG “this is fine” guy

“WhatsApp doesn’t collect your data!”

(because everything else they own does)

Yeah…yeah. It’s heartbreaking how many people are going to get caught in the middle

The IAEA released a statement that Iran wasn’t holding to their non-proliferation agreements. Acknowledging that Iran is in the process of making nukes depite what they claim.

UKMTO was warning mariners of heightened tensions on June 11th

About the same time the US was evacuating non essential people from Bahrain, Kuwait and similar places

The people in the know were aware that Israel was getting a liiiiiitle more hands on with Iran’s nuclear program. Nobody seems willing to get involved to support or stop it.

That would give any third party a good cop bad cop negotiation position. Have Iran make a deal with them or let Israel continue to have some quality 1v1 time

You should do this with the Lorem Ipsum text lol

People who don’t know might think it’s some based quote from a Caesar or something

I met someone from Kansas and they talked about how it wasn’t so bad and that they still can vacation to see cool places.

Then they talked about their 12 hour road trips to Wisconsin and Southern Texas and it made me feel kinda sad for them!

Road trips beat commercial flights though imo

This is a reason why I kinda like the psudo religious concepts that back US founding documents.

Now before everyone gets to typing about annoying evangelicals or whatever (trust me I understand) you don’t have to believe in christianity or any other religious institution for the “natural law” concept to work. All it takes is an understanding that human rights are a default and don’t magically disappear because your area’s govt says so.

It’s summed up nicely by this quote from John Locke.

“And where the Body of the People, or any single Man, is deprived of their Right, or is under the Exercise of a power without right, and have no Appeal on Earth, there they have a liberty to appeal to Heaven, whenever they judge the Cause of sufficient moment.”

It’s an annual training requirement, they all know.

Not even joking I didn’t think of the helicopter idea, it’s genuinely good

I never said it was impossible and I don’t believe that either. My point with that active shooter part was that even if you have a really good dedicated team, sometimes the response time matters or things get way worse by the time they arrive.

So if the tactical dream team was a thing how many of these teams would be needed to get a reasonable response time? Would it be one per city, or a set amount per region?

And yeah the police currently have a bunch of tactical stuff they have around and use on stuff they shouldn’t “just in case”

For a lot of stuff that would work I think. But it also sounds a lot like how they used to respond to active shooters back in the late 90s. Terrorists used to hijack or take hostages to negotiate political demands, not just try to kill people.

So in that case that plan isn’t great when people are helpless inside while waiting on a tactical team. That’s why Uvalde caused such an outcry against the police response. They were crowd control when they had every chance to engage the shooter. You’re right, there’s no perfect plan for everything. I do think a negotiate/deescelate approach would be very helpful

The way it currently works for departments around here is their SWAT guys do ordinary patrols but they have extra training and gear to respond to tactical stuff too. I wonder if we could do the same for the other side of the spectrum and have some officers with extra training as negotiators?

Okay so ordinary police are out. You’re in charge of this new tactical unit, what does it look like? Where is the line between a ordinary response and a tactical response? What gear/technologies would they have as default and what would they have access to?

I’m not trying to be a dick, I’m truly curious because if we want reform we have to have a goal to reach. Change is cool but change to what?

I agree, however I could argue there are times when having a tactical force IS the public service. Not saying the pic posted would be one of those times though

They do, but it’s cops so it might take them a minute lol. Other than speed taking off the nvgs also fucks with the balance of the helmet. The other stuff on the back acts as a counterweight. Still removable but still I bet they just wanted to grab and go

Most cops have some kind of tactical gear kept in the trunk of their car. They don’t mess with it for each call they grab and go.

I’d rather have them wear night vision for nothing than spend an extra 10 minutes fucking around in the parking lot to not.

But I do agree with the main point of the post. Clothing plays a part in our psyche. If you dress sharp you’ll act sharp. If you dress slopply you’ll act sloppy. If you dress like a soldier you’ll act like one, and that usually isn’t what cops should be doing. Hammers seeing nails and all that.

Once you stop driving cities should be great because so much stuff is in walking distance or has transit to get you close

I agree driving a slow car fast is was more fun than driving a fast car slow!