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asciilifeform: mod6: police snipers (like any other) traditionally use bolt-action rifles of the 19th c. variety
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the .22 (for non-usians, the familiar 'olympic' caliber) rifle is also explained by cost: roughly 1/2 - 1/3 of a 'proper' m16. low pressure round, can use garbage metals. << In police department purchasing general practice is buying actual M-16 type and them getting .22LR uppers to go with them
asciilifeform: .22LR is sometimes talked on in police circles as an acceptable "escalation" from rubber << old tradition in usa. e.g. http://world.guns.ru/smg/usa/american-10-e.html
mircea_popescu: i bet you if you asked the whole complement of us police it'd be their honest estimation that in their absence the whole population would simply die overnight.
BingoBoingo: ( .22LR is sometimes talked on in police circles as an acceptable "escalation" from rubber"
thestringpuller: when can sovereign entities use force if the police are militarized?
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: last night was a quiet night. After http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/mya_aaten-white_shooting_victim_from_aug_12_says_police_have_not_interviewed_her.php Tonight might be... who knows
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: the hospital would have taken note of who took the bullet, no? << well if they didn't, either the police comissioner hangs or they got themselves a police state.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's what I'm thinking, well the police stealing their bullet back. I dunno if pale America is ready to take Obama out back yet.
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
mircea_popescu: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/mya_aaten-white_shooting_victim_from_aug_12_says_police_have_not_interviewed_her.php << o look at that. us police shoots civillian in the street, goes to hospital, steals bullet, disappears it.
BingoBoingo: "I've talked to both the St. Louis County Police Department and Ferguson...they have no record...no file number, no report," he said. "They don't have anything."
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
BingoBoingo: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/mya_aaten-white_shooting_victim_from_aug_12_says_police_have_not_interviewed_her.php
mircea_popescu: As the protests in Ferguson, Missouri over police fatally shooting 19-year-old Mike Brown have raged through the past several nights, more than a few people have noticed how relatively quiet Facebook news feeds have been on the matter. While #Ferguson is a trending hashtag, Zeynep Tufekci pointed out at Medium that news about the violence was, as best, slow to percolate through her own feed, despite people posting libe
mircea_popescu: is the national guard there to put down teh police ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the attacks come mostly from the police.
assbot: Ferguson: police fire tear gas at protesters before second night of curfew.
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/17/ferguson_police_fire_tear_gas_at_protesters_before_second_night_of_curfew.html
assbot: Police States and Inner-City Economics - Ryan McMaken - Mises Daily
RagnarDanneskjol: http://mises.org/daily/6846/Police-States-and-InnerCity-Economics
Duffer1: or the mayor is saying one thing and making the police do another
Duffer1: it sounds like the local police captn has zero respect for the mayor
assbot: Lashes for Saudi woman who called morality police liars: newspaper - Yahoo News
chetty: http://news.yahoo.com/lashes-saudi-woman-called-morality-police-liars-newspaper-120113841.html;_ylt=AwrBJR48zfBTV3MA0hXQtDMD
assbot: TSA Harasses Police Chief Entire Police Department Fired | Liberty RoundTable
asciilifeform: http://www.libertyroundtable.com/2014/01/29/tsa-harasses-police-chief-entire-police-department-fired
cazalla: can access police archives next year (10 years)
pete_dushenski: "Australian law firm Clayton Utz has developed a smartphone app for companies facing dawn raids on their offices from police, antitrust and securities regulators, and tax officers."
pete_dushenski: "Try to see it from a police officer’s point of view: You may be unarmed, but you’re also black"
trixisowned: The police are now retreating near the QuickTrip as sounds of gun shots fill the air. I'm not sure what is coming but police are screaming
decimation: I would like to know how the democratic police think that distributing cs gas randomly around the town is going to effective at accomplishing anything
assbot: Police use tear gas to break up Ferguson crowd
BingoBoingo: I just called Ferguson police chief to ask about @WesleyLowery and @ryanjreilly, told him what I knew. His response: "Oh, God."
assbot: Twitter / mattdpearce: I just called Ferguson police ...
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/protesters-police-again-facing-off-in-ferguson/article_0806541b-ed48-5d06-9267-323531ad6cf1.html
asciilifeform: (these police, on the other hand, will shoot no one. 'it would be racist' (tm) )
decimation: I love this distinction between proper police who serve the king, the local baron's agents, and the "democratic police". I'm going to use the phrase more often.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I'm not sure how you are going to make money selling to the democratic police when the surplus war material is "free" << love will find a way.
assbot: What the wife of the /hashtag/ferguson?src=hash chief of police has to say on her Facebook http://t.co/dGdkegmfc4
decimation: I'm not sure how you are going to make money selling to the democratic police when the surplus war material is "free"
assbot: Munson: Heavy-duty military equipment given to police
decimation: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/kyle-munson/2014/04/05/munson-heavy-duty-military-equipment-police/7337463/
assbot: Photo of reporter I believe to be /ryanjreilly being cuffed and put in a police van minutes ago in /hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash http://t.co/l6olRUPk13
mircea_popescu: "Your right to assembly is not being denied," the police said later over a loudspeaker.
asciilifeform: 'LeGuin had told police he was part of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which believes the federal, state and local governments operate illegally.'
asciilifeform: ^ for non-usaians, this is a result of the peculiar custom of u.s. police using firemen as human shields
asciilifeform: 'When Dallas firefighters drove by the house, LeGuin allegedly started shooting at them. He hit the fire truck at least twice, police said.'
BingoBoingo: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2014/08/dallas-police-anti-government-corinth-gunman-said-he-wanted-to-occupy-house-in-far-north-dallas.html/
assbot: Forex Market Regulation: Who Can Really Police This Global Market? - Forbes
RagnarDanneskjol: duh http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2014/08/11/forex-market-regulation-who-can-really-police-this-global-market/
assbot: Police Officer Caught On Video Calling Michael Brown Protesters 'F***ing Animals'
assbot: The /hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash police look more militarized now than the actual National Guard, here from the 1967 Newark riots: http://t.co/qk3CKqSp8o
assbot: Outrage in Ferguson after police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown - Vox
BingoBoingo: Oh, an explainer http://www.vox.com/2014/8/11/5988925/mike-brown-killing-shooting-case-ferguson-police-riots-st-louis
mircea_popescu: "got shot" as in murdered by police ?
BingoBoingo: police firing tear gas at angry residents despite the fact that they're standing behind a fence on private property and are apparently unarmed:
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> "so when the police approached you, why did you open fire ?" "i thought we were being invaded by aliens" "i see. fair enough. case dismissed" << THought it was the Chicoms invading
mircea_popescu: "so when the police approached you, why did you open fire ?" "i thought we were being invaded by aliens" "i see. fair enough. case dismissed"
assbot: Summing up police militarization with a photo from Missouri. The camo is required because? http://t.co/Jr6atNWxjR http://t.co/IeZgZNppxl
assbot: Police Fire Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas on Ferguson, Mo. Protestors
BingoBoingo: http://gawker.com/police-and-protestors-clash-in-a-cloud-of-tear-gas-in-f-1619914904
the20year: This is all of course from that case of the guy shooting police who were shooting him in the botched drug raid, the guy in the end i think was no-billed
the20year: Yeah, supposedly the state got sued by the FOP and they may strike it down, although the supreme court decision was a re-affirmation of basic self defense laws, and against the police idemnity laws
assbot: State Passes Law to Legalize Shooting Police | The Free Thought Project
BingoBoingo: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-passes-law-legalize-self-defense-police/
ascii_at_beach: 'good news' - the u.s. police will be disarmed; 'bad news' - by u.s. brownshirt corps.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re the other item : actually disarming the us police may be a good idea.
nubbins`: from ferguson to greece, fuck the police
assbot: FERGUSON, Mo.: St. Louis-area crowd after shooting: 'Kill the police' | National | News Democrat
BingoBoingo: http://www.bnd.com/2014/08/09/3342742/ferguson-police-shooting-prompts.html
assbot: Police Say Fatal Shooting Came After Altercation - ABC News
BingoBoingo: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-crowd-shooting-kill-police-24915554
chetty: yahoo: police cadet corps.
BigBitz: Google: The Internet Police.
ben_vulpes: "Police say Google detected explicit images of a young girl in an email that John Henry Skillern was sending to a friend, the company then alerted authorities."
Vexual: china first "banned" it when the police casught some thft and realisied they couldn't take a cut without the blockchain seeing
assbot: Police: Do not call us if Facebook is down - WFSB 3 Connecticut
chetty: http://www.wfsb.com/story/26174225/police-do-not-call-us-if-facebook-is-down
mircea_popescu: if you break that, might as well just walk into the police station and start shooting randomly.
assbot: Tokyo Police Launch Formal Investigation Into Mt Gox Bitcoin Disappearance - WSJ.com
asciilifeform: in the actual police documents, the plausible data - suspect requiring a few more doughnut eaters than usual to subdue
BingoBoingo: parellel construction seems likely for anything police in the US do these days
chetty: ICE press release refers to "illegal aliens" 11 times: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1407/140716houston.htm … Call the language police!
decimation: if you spend any time listening to police radios (those that aren't encrypted - which is most these days) you realize that the cops use regular mobile phones for the most sensitive stuff
asciilifeform: incidentally, this scene could very well be the genuine article. post-'90s russian police routinely search fleshwallets.
decimation: well, I was just counting uniformed police + their dogs
mircea_popescu: you want the prosecutors, you want the FBI, you want the state police, etc.
asciilifeform: a police dog (at least, ones trained in the russian tradition) will attack if fed by a stranger.
asciilifeform: turns out his profession was - police dog trainer & handler.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Mazing though that the two most killing calibers here are .22 lr and police 9mm and .38
BingoBoingo: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58213328-78/byrge-police-wrote-candidate.html.csp
mircea_popescu: bitstein it's not just money, either. consider my earlier quoted piece about how "you can't police other people's oppression".
assbot: Police Investigating Star Tech CEO Over Multiple Rape Allegations
benkay: apropos of nothing: http://valleywag.gawker.com/police-investigating-star-tech-ceo-over-multiple-rape-a-1601697781
nubbins`: teaching and police work are for the daft or the dangerous
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's not a war. the way i see it, to keep a police force going you gotta give it some niggers to pick on.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell hanbot remember the guy that sent a complaint to spanish police (where he was at the time being an romanian temp worker) that mtgox won't send him proof of its id ? he's dead. ☟︎
assbot: SoylentNews | Police Request Permission to take Nude Photo of Minor Sexting Suspect