[QUOTE=SgtSoros;5136873]It's obvious, the Atlanta Mayor is not up to job and needs to step aside.[/QUOTE]Too busy running her mouth to properly govern.
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[QUOTE=SgtSoros;5136873]It's obvious, the Atlanta Mayor is not up to job and needs to step aside.[/QUOTE]Too busy running her mouth to properly govern.
2020 man! Now we have Super Gonorrhea??
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/12/27/super-gonorrhea-may-be-spreading-from-antibiotic-overuse-for-covid-19-coronavirus/[/URL]
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5136725][URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9094477/Atlanta-mayor-asks-help-solving-alarming-crime-wave.html[/URL]
rime in the atl is out of control![/QUOTE]Yes, the murder rate is up across the US in major cities about 36%. Atlanta has one of the larger increases as it is up around 57% from last year. Like most changes of this nature there are likely multiple causes. Once I go through a pat down and into one of the popular strip clubs on day shift I don't give it a thought. Might be a bit more cautious on night shift. Knock on wood, but in roughly 75 day shift visits I have never had a single person threaten me and I am an elderly white man typically in a black club. Only witnessed once real fistfight during the day and it was at Follies. As mentioned several times on the board, if your visiting a west side club (Wax, etc.) then watch your step outside the club in the gas stations and convenience stores. I would extend that same caution over to Moreland Ave. I was changing shirts behind the Citgo at the intersection of 285 and Moreland when a man in full camo with a a bow and arrow suddenly appeared and headed straight toward me. He told me to be careful in that area. He was deer hunting in about 1. 5 acres of kudzu covered trees and brush that bordered this busy industrial area. Had already killed a 12 pointer in that spot and said there was a bigger one he was targeting. He disappeared into the woods and I headed up the street to Blaze. So you can add that to the list of attractions assuming you can get permission to hunt these spots in the Metro area. Not what I was expecting to see on Moreland Ave at 5:30 PM.
[URL]https://www.vox.com/2020/8/3/21334149/murders-crime-shootings-protests-riots-trump-bid[/URL]
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5136725][URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9094477/Atlanta-mayor-asks-help-solving-alarming-crime-wave.html[/URL]
Crime in the atl is out of control![/QUOTE]Crime in Atlanta has made international news! Or is it that there is no news in Great Britain as they are all locked down?
[QUOTE=JMAbacus;5137389]I was changing shirts behind the Citgo at the intersection of 285 and Moreland when a man in full camo with a a bow and arrow suddenly appeared and headed straight toward me. He told me to be careful in that area. He was deer hunting in about 1. 5 acres of kudzu covered trees and brush that bordered this busy industrial area. Had already killed a 12 pointer in that spot and said there was a bigger one he was targeting. He disappeared into the woods and I headed up the street to Blaze. So you can add that to the list of attractions assuming you can get permission to hunt these spots in the Metro area. Not what I was expecting to see on Moreland Ave at 5:30 PM.
[URL]https://www.vox.com/2020/8/3/21334149/murders-crime-shootings-protests-riots-trump-bid[/URL][/QUOTE]What the fuck?
It's called Urban Hunting. There's a couple youtube channels I watch of some guys in GA that do the same thing. If you walk behind some shopping plazas that have heavily wooded areas, there are some spots where guys have cams set up to track deer to hunt.
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5136725][URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9094477/Atlanta-mayor-asks-help-solving-alarming-crime-wave.html[/URL]
Crime in the atl is out of control![/QUOTE]Sad but true. I carry a subcompact pistol in my backpack at all times. Maybe it's time to carry my full size on my hip at all times as well. Except when going into a strip club or on a plane of course, LOL. (Remember you need a conceal carry permit for this to be legal.).
I have to share a recent story. I invited an escort to a hotel and because of all the dangerous stories lately, had my pistol tucked behind the small of my back. Not so much because of her but in case she had a handler or some other nefarious character along. She walks in and everything is good. She then goes to hug me and I hadn't put away the pistol yet so she jumps wondering what's going on when she feels it. I had to quickly explain and put it away real quick and gave her the donation asap! Everything worked out in the end, just wanted to share an amusing experience.
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5144755]Mr. Brooks at the Wendy's incident sealed his own fate, the officers did what they needed to do to protect themselves. The mayor and the District Attorney rushed to judgement and neither officer will be convicted of any crime. The mayor has emboldened the citizens to challenge the officers at every turn. The officer's have rightfully decided to do the bare minimum. Prior to 2020 , I had been to Atlanta twice. In 2020 I went to Atlanta 4 times (follies in March, the tilted kilt (April) strokers and the new follies in December. I have money to spend and that I want to spend, but I refuse to spend it in Atlanta. To be blunt I am scared. Riots. The bottle boys and now they want to disarm people at the mall? (they installed medal detectors) nope not for I. I will be avoiding atlanta till they get things under control.[/QUOTE]Not to argue all the dynamics of the social issues regarding crime and and law enforcement but the bare minimum policy as you call it is now in effect in upstate SC. Spoke with a young officer yesterday at the gym that along with a group of his similar minded coworkers, have all resigned in the past couple months. Bizarre as it might seem, they were criticized for making too many arrests. The criticism was ongoing on a weekly basis. The arrests ran the gamut, but included plenty of convicted felons, weapons charges, and of course some drug seizures. Officers not reprimanded spent their shifts sitting in parking lots and making almost no arrests. So the unspoken message was don't seek out or initiate anything that leads to an arrest. Surprised me at first, but its simply a shift based on the political climate. Won't stop me from getting down to Atlanta although my advanced age and poor health have me waiting for some declining positivity rates before I take the plunge.
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5144755]Mr. Brooks at the Wendy's incident sealed his own fate, the officers did what they needed to do to protect themselves. The mayor and the District Attorney rushed to judgement and neither officer will be convicted of any crime. The mayor has emboldened the citizens to challenge the officers at every turn. The officer's have rightfully decided to do the bare minimum. Prior to 2020 , I had been to Atlanta twice. In 2020 I went to Atlanta 4 times (follies in March, the tilted kilt (April) strokers and the new follies in December. I have money to spend and that I want to spend, but I refuse to spend it in Atlanta. To be blunt I am scared. Riots. The bottle boys and now they want to disarm people at the mall? (they installed medal detectors) nope not for I. I will be avoiding atlanta till they get things under control.[/QUOTE]What crime did Mr. Brooks commit that was egregious enough for deadly force? Drunk sleeping in his car in a Wendy's drive-thru? Getting free from two police officers after being tased and attempting to flee? On foot? While intoxicated? Are the cops always right because they wear the blue and carry a badge? If so, Internal Affairs wouldn't even exist within any law enforcement division. I know that it's a dangerous job, but some people do not have the ability, temperament, or judgement skills under pressure to wear a badge or carry a gun.
[QUOTE=GameCockToo;5145361]What crime did Mr. Brooks commit that was egregious enough for deadly force? Drunk sleeping in his car in a Wendy's drive-thru? Getting free from two police officers after being tased and attempting to flee? On foot? While intoxicated? Are the cops always right because they wear the blue and carry a badge? If so, Internal Affairs wouldn't even exist within any law enforcement division. I know that it's a dangerous job, but some people do not have the ability, temperament, or judgement skills under pressure to wear a badge or carry a gun.[/QUOTE]Yes, he fired a lethal weapon at the police officers. Now you may want to argue that it could not fire a 3rd time but I contest that law enforcement should not be required to remember when being shot at just how many shots a weapon has discharged. As the Kimmer used to say, "Pay attention children, if you point a weapon at a police officer, they may shoot you dead. ".
[QUOTE=GameCockToo;5145361]What crime did Mr. Brooks commit that was egregious enough for deadly force? Drunk sleeping in his car in a Wendy's drive-thru? Getting free from two police officers after being tased and attempting to flee? On foot? While intoxicated? Are the cops always right because they wear the blue and carry a badge? If so, Internal Affairs wouldn't even exist within any law enforcement division. I know that it's a dangerous job, but some people do not have the ability, temperament, or judgement skills under pressure to wear a badge or carry a gun.[/QUOTE]I watched the entire video; you obviously did not or are extremely biased. You failed to acknowledge that the drunken ass clown fired at the cop. As for cops that can't handle the job, there are plenty and they need to go.
As for Brooks, there's one less shit stain on the streets, and that's what really matters.
Ability. Opportunity jeopardy. The police had the right and obligation to terminate brooks when he punched one or both of them. The removal of the taser only added to his level of dangerous. Brooks took a very simple dui arrest and turned into a major incident. Instead of congratulating the cops for defending themselves and removing a clearly violent and dangerous individual, they made the cop the bad guys and taught the masses to verbally and physically fight the cops every step. So the cops have learned it does not pay to engage with Any suspect for any reason, so they don't. Traffic stops are down 44% in Atlanta. . because it doesn't pay to be pro active. With all that currently is going on in Atlanta I will advoid atlanta. I carry a gun everywhere I go, but I don't want to use it and it seems my chances greatly increase in Atlanta because of lack of police intervention. So I will just stay home. Brooks, Brown, king, Blake, garner all have 1 thing in common they resisted a lawful arrest. We do not need police reform, we need to reform and educate a certain % of the population. Maybe 13.
Those lazy entitled 13 percenters are at it again? Have you sat inside of a live classroom in an inner city public school lately? The public school system, especially in the inner city is absolute trash! They don't teach those kids anything barely beyond Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and Christopher Columbus discovered America nonsense.
They need to teach those kids critical thinking skills amongst many other things. You are correct about 1 thing though. Those 13 percenters do need to be reformed and educated (about the American criminal (supposedly justice) monetary system and how it works). The school system in itself is racially biased and its handicapping the 13 percenters. They're not learning any real life skills in school and most of them graduate or are pushed out of high school and are scratching their asses the very next day, trying to figure out what to do next.
The media is also hugely to blame for this nonsense. First, they have you sheeple afraid to come outside because of the Budweiser virus. Then, a few weeks or months later, they have y'all marching in the streets for "Black Lives Matter". I saw the Rashard Brooks video and George Foreman or whatever his name is video. Not 1 of those instances had anything to do with racism. They were just 2 stupid black men that wouldn't follow orders and resisted arrest the whole time.
The media painted that whole narrative of police killing black men, because the people above and behind the scenes who pull the strings, wanted to show themselves how easy it is to make you sheeple go backwards and forward to their every command. Many of those so-called protesters are government plants, put there to enrage the masses. The people above and behind the scenes are looking down at you mindless sheep from the 50th floor of their skycraper and laughing at you sheeple as you are afraid to be closer than 6 feet next to your fellow man.
They have you sheeple like ventriloquist dummies moving backwards and forward to their every command. And let me not talk about the foreigners who come to America as asylum seekers (Syria, Afghanistan, etc) and they give them free housing and education. Yet, you have these fucking homeless downtown that can't even get a free tent from the gubment. To tell you the truth, this whole American justice, criminal monetary system is rotten from the core / top down.
Do you not see how much pork the Coronavirus stimulus relief bill has in it. These fuckers are sending millions of dollars to countries like Cambodia to feed the sea whales over there or some shit. They're giving "shithole countries" millions while giving American individuals a measly $600 each. Really? Can that even pay a month's rent in Atlanta? Smdh. Before you sheeple talk about the miseducation and reformation of the 13 percenters, you need to talk about the miseducation and reformation of the American government that created and continues to create the lost, confused, pants sagging 13 percenters through media, music industry, education system which the American government controls. They've been doing this ever since Christopher Columbus set his thieving foot on Red America!
Lastly, before I leave to go do some 13 percenter hood rat shit, I'd like to touch on that Coronavirus relief bill nonsense. Yo, this has got to be the world's dumbest economically ran country that I've ever seen. This country is in like a gazillion dollar debt and these fools are giving away money as if it's growing on trees. Well, it must be since their giving millions to "shithole countries" and hundreds to individual Americans.
I've never seen so much wreckless loose spending in my entire life. If it wasn't for the American military and it's enforcement of the universal use of the American dollars (which is backed by nothing and printed freely and wildly by the US government) you sheeple in America would be eating out of the trash can. The Asians corner the market with cheap quality goods while the Americans flood the market with expensive junk and wreckless spending habits. No wonder the 13 percenters are like what they are now. Look who's educating or miseducating them.
Someone who thinks that fixing an economy can be done by printing free money and giving pennies to individuals. Yes, I'm 10,000 dollars past due on my mortgage, so I'm gunna print up these free worthless American dollars in my basement. Spend 90% of it at the strip club making it rain, then spend the remaining 10 percent on my past due mortgage. Smdh. This is exactly what the American government is doing. And these are the people that are suppose to educate and reform the 13 percenters? LOL. OK. Like father, like son.
Those 13 percenters are only the by product of the 80 percenters who are continuously poisoning them with purposeful miseducation, criminal monetary system injustice, purposeful media misinformation and narratives, music industry trash, etc. Just look and listen to a NBA ball player, like LeBron James when he's giving a public speech. That knee grow talks with a 5th grade level education. "We was going to press them on the defensive end". LeBron James is a product of the shitty inner city public school system. He's making millions and not even the coaches or media workers can teach him proper grammar and diction before he takes his illiterate ass on T talking about Black Lives Matter.
[QUOTE=MartyBass864;5146417]Ability. Opportunity jeopardy. The police had the right and obligation to terminate brooks when he punched one or both of them. The removal of the taser only added to his level of dangerous. Brooks took a very simple dui arrest and turned into a major incident. Instead of congratulating the cops for defending themselves and removing a clearly violent and dangerous individual, they made the cop the bad guys and taught the masses to verbally and physically fight the cops every step. So the cops have learned it does not pay to engage with Any suspect for any reason, so they don't. Traffic stops are down 44% in Atlanta. . because it doesn't pay to be pro active. With all that currently is going on in Atlanta I will advoid atlanta. I carry a gun everywhere I go, but I don't want to use it and it seems my chances greatly increase in Atlanta because of lack of police intervention. So I will just stay home. Brooks, Brown, king, Blake, garner all have 1 thing in common they resisted a lawful arrest. We do not need police reform, we need to reform and educate a certain % of the population. Maybe 13.[/QUOTE]A tazer is not a lethal weapon. And when some white kid can go into a school and kill dozens of people or blow up a bomb in a crowd then kill a cop while on the run. That's not enough to have cops fearful enough to commit murder but a black man running for them pissing on themselves. Full grown men with firearms surrounded by other full grown men similarly armed scared of one black man. I can provide you video evidence proof on how much cops go out of their way to not kill other white citizens but get trigger happy when it's a minority. These see the facts. Just like y'all want to point out facts when it supports your argument don't ignore the facts that support the alternative.
[URL]https://youtu.be/V-vGp5uOjL4[/URL]
I couldn't find the one I seen earlier but this is similar. In the one in thinking of they stop this guy for a different reason then he tells the female officer he has a licensed firearm in the trunk of the vehicle. They never had any reason to ask him to step out the vehicle until that. The scary ass female officer told the male officer she didn't feel comfortable. The black guy asked to speak to a supervisor for his safety because she was already acting suspect. After he made that request she pulled out her pistol and pointed out at the guys head. These are the type of officers y'all defending. Dude could have lost his life over nothing. So miss me with that fearful for their lives bs. I've seen plenty of videos where people put themselves in the position to be confronted by law enforcement just so they can exercise their rights. Yah its black folks don't have that luxury. Maybe our family might get a big pay day while some people like y'all defend the senseless murder or bring up our past like that somehow justifies our murder.
[QUOTE=NewDude;5144691]APD is one of the highest paid police departments in the country. When sworn in the mayor of Atlanta provided a raise for all officers before any other legislation was passed. Accountability and satisfactory performance is determined by the mayor's standards. [/QUOTE]I'll agree with the latter statement, and therein lies the problem. The mayor's standards blow with the political winds. If you think it's just about the money, which isn't that great at an average of $43.2 k / year according to the BLS (and that's 13% below the national average, by the way, according to [URL]Indeed.com[/URL]), then you're dead wrong, which is literally the consequences these officers potentially face. When the mayor neuters the police force by firing them for performing their duties and defending themselves in the line of duty, second-guessing split-second decisions in life-threatening situations that she's never had to face, going on live TV the next day critiquing those actions and saying they make her sick before any investigation has been performed, then you're not going to have a motivated police force, regardless of the stellar pay you're claiming, which I also disagree with. I'll tell you whose actions make me sick, and it's the Mayor's. The DA Paul Howard already got what he deserved and got the boot by the voters for his part in bringing charges against those officers, who will no doubt eventually be exonerated. Lance-Bottoms is paying the price now for her actions, and hopefully will get the boot as well for throwing those officers under the bus.
There are plenty of police reforms that need to take place and plenty of bad officers, but this was not an example of that. If you saw the way these officers handled that arrest, they did not initiate or escalate the situation, and were very respectful. The mayor used this solely for personal political gain at the expense of the police.