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May 11th, 2024 - 3:04 pm § in America

Are police killing more people?

To find out, I went looking for charts, and because I can’t cut-and-paste some of them, you’ll have to click through links to see them. Let’s start with this chart from Statistica that gives numbers for 2017-2023. While the number increased every year, the uptrend was slight until [...]

February 8th, 2023 - 10:15 pm § in Misc.

Lest we forget

Robert LaMay was a good man. He served the citizens of Washington, and Yakima Valley, as a state trooper for 22 years and 5 months. Trooper LaMay resigned on October 15, 2021, rather than comply with a state employee vaccine mandate. His final radio sign-off, which concluded with him telling Gov. Ja[...]

February 7th, 2017 - 7:29 pm § in Politics

Trump threatens Texas legislator for proposing civil forfeiture reform

President Trump elicited laughs Tueday from a group of sheriffs by offering to “destroy the career” of a Texas state senator who introduced a bill to reform civil asset forfeiture. Trump later claimed he was only joking. Read story here and watch video below. The senator, Konni Burton, [...]