X, you posted a lot of necesary stories and some I've only just learnd about. But this one: "Louisville detective Brett Hankison was ordered to report to federal prison after a judge denied his bid to delay sentencing. Hankison, the only officer convicted in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, received a 33-month term for violating her civil rights." This guy needs to sit with himself for 33 months and then go back and make amends to everyone who grieved and hurt over this travesty. No, I didn't know Breonna, but now I never will.
You can publish on your own deadline. You are the boss of you.
Always something interesting in this newsletter. Many things, actually. I was particularly interested to learn about the stunning sums the city of Chicago has had to pay out because of repeated misconduct by police officers. It seems to me that repetition of this kind of conduct on the part of any individual police officer needs to be a "lose-your-job" offense. I'm not from there and don't know enough about the Chicago Police Department to understand the dynamics among the Police force, the Police union, the city administration and the general population brings about this kind of situation. But one would think that hitting the city pocketbook that hard might bring about some sort of improvement.
The union exercises an enormous amount of power casting its shadow all throughout city politics. I’ve been a member of a police union and this one makes mine look like minor leagues.
X, you posted a lot of necesary stories and some I've only just learnd about. But this one: "Louisville detective Brett Hankison was ordered to report to federal prison after a judge denied his bid to delay sentencing. Hankison, the only officer convicted in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, received a 33-month term for violating her civil rights." This guy needs to sit with himself for 33 months and then go back and make amends to everyone who grieved and hurt over this travesty. No, I didn't know Breonna, but now I never will.
You can publish on your own deadline. You are the boss of you.
Always something interesting in this newsletter. Many things, actually. I was particularly interested to learn about the stunning sums the city of Chicago has had to pay out because of repeated misconduct by police officers. It seems to me that repetition of this kind of conduct on the part of any individual police officer needs to be a "lose-your-job" offense. I'm not from there and don't know enough about the Chicago Police Department to understand the dynamics among the Police force, the Police union, the city administration and the general population brings about this kind of situation. But one would think that hitting the city pocketbook that hard might bring about some sort of improvement.
The union exercises an enormous amount of power casting its shadow all throughout city politics. I’ve been a member of a police union and this one makes mine look like minor leagues.
Thank you for your helpful response.👍