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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
N.J. approves needle exchange program
Now we are getting somewhere!
TRENTON, N.J. - Intravenous drug users will be able to get clean needles in four New Jersey cities under an experimental program approved Tuesday to try to slow the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Intravenous drug users will be able to get clean needles in four New Jersey cities under an experimental program approved Tuesday to try to slow the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Valerie Plame's blown cover and Bush
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Wilson has said he believes his wife's identity was disclosed to punish him and to undermine his credibility>>
The world is upside down.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Wilson has said he believes his wife's identity was disclosed to punish him and to undermine his credibility>>
Who would have thought that a president of the United States would poo-poo the disclosure of a CIA agent, an agent involved in discovering intelligence about weapons of mass destruction, to boot!
The world is upside down.
The world is upside down.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Poor police work and possi cometatus.
The below link to a video will become a standard viewing requirement for police academy recruits in the near future, like tomorrow morning. It is obvious why it is so important. It looks like fiction, but it is not. The officer in this video was reported to have died from his wounds.
See this video by tapping here. (Expect a commercial first)
Most if not all law enforcement folks will point to this naive act of the slain officer as "poor police work." Perhaps the officer forgot his place; perhaps he had a long day and was off duty soon, or perhaps he was scheduled for a long vacation and started vacationing while on duty. Perhaps turning your back on a suspect in this part of the world is considered safe. It is not.
The dead officer somehow thought that the pepper spray would incapacitate his suspect, but why? This must be one of the worst police stops ever videoed. Who is this guy's department training officer? Dammit, I want to know!
Watch the officer approach the suspect's car. What does he have in his shooting-hand? Right, a can of "pepper spray." That's a big mistake to begin with. Who are this guys peers? Why did this officer learn to carry any object other than his firearm in his shooting-hand? Did he stand around the coffee counters with a cup of coffee in this hand while telling war stories? Over the years, did he somehow learn to ignore one of the greatest commandments of police work: Keep your shooting-hand free, always.
I see security cops do it all the time. They stand around smoking with their right hand, and it is their right hand that they must use to draw and shoot. Then there's the officers that somehow think that their academy training was fine for the academy, but ignore their initial training because they think that they know it all. Well, they do not know it all.
Cops die every day doing good police work. They get caught by the numbers; not here. Here the three major errors leading to total negligence are 1. failing to take control of the situation, 2. approaching a suspect with the shooting-hand encumbered (pepper spray), and 3. turning on a suspect. Try these stunts in the Pico Union District of Los Angeles as a police officer and see natural selection operate quickly and effectively.
I have not carried a sidearm in decades. I can honestly say that to this day my right hand, my shooting hand, is free anytime I need to carry something with one hand. I still, by good training, keep my shooting-hand free. To this day! I don't think my behavior is unusual. I think it reflects that I had good training.
Cops learn that they give up their dominant hand when they enter law enforcement, and that's 24/7/365. A well trained cop does not stop to think about which hand to use for holding any thing, ever. They know that their dominant hand is free to the last. Encumber the weak hand, not the dominant hand, always. When a cop abandons this commandment, a bolt of lightning-like energy should propagate from their brain to their shooting-hand to correct the situation.
Off the point, but worthy of bringing up in terms of another police officer being shot dead, when people complain about police abuse, they are correct to do so when an officer's behavior is abusive. I want to point out, too, that every police officer copes with a certain amount of anxiety every day. Like the shooting-hand, their work becomes part of their soma, their musculature or muscle memory. The stress is there even though the stress object is not.
So being a "police officer" does not somehow remove a person from our species' fight-or-flight response system and all that comes with it. We must expect daily anxieties to wear away at the more human side of humanity in the business of policing. This is not to excuse police abuse, but to help explain it. Cops live with a real and imagined threat to their lives every day that they put on their badge. Here, a cop made a big mistake and paid the big price for being naive. Cops cannot forget that they are cops in a real world of bad guys. I am sure that most cops do not need me to remind them.
And what about the second shooter, the possi cometatus? Will he or she now deal with the ordeal related to breaking one of the great commandments? One act of poor police work makes its way to others real quick, it appears.
I am sorry.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
The below link to a video will become a standard viewing requirement for police academy recruits in the near future, like tomorrow morning. It is obvious why it is so important. It looks like fiction, but it is not. The officer in this video was reported to have died from his wounds.
See this video by tapping here. (Expect a commercial first)
Most if not all law enforcement folks will point to this naive act of the slain officer as "poor police work." Perhaps the officer forgot his place; perhaps he had a long day and was off duty soon, or perhaps he was scheduled for a long vacation and started vacationing while on duty. Perhaps turning your back on a suspect in this part of the world is considered safe. It is not.
The dead officer somehow thought that the pepper spray would incapacitate his suspect, but why? This must be one of the worst police stops ever videoed. Who is this guy's department training officer? Dammit, I want to know!
Watch the officer approach the suspect's car. What does he have in his shooting-hand? Right, a can of "pepper spray." That's a big mistake to begin with. Who are this guys peers? Why did this officer learn to carry any object other than his firearm in his shooting-hand? Did he stand around the coffee counters with a cup of coffee in this hand while telling war stories? Over the years, did he somehow learn to ignore one of the greatest commandments of police work: Keep your shooting-hand free, always.
I see security cops do it all the time. They stand around smoking with their right hand, and it is their right hand that they must use to draw and shoot. Then there's the officers that somehow think that their academy training was fine for the academy, but ignore their initial training because they think that they know it all. Well, they do not know it all.
Cops die every day doing good police work. They get caught by the numbers; not here. Here the three major errors leading to total negligence are 1. failing to take control of the situation, 2. approaching a suspect with the shooting-hand encumbered (pepper spray), and 3. turning on a suspect. Try these stunts in the Pico Union District of Los Angeles as a police officer and see natural selection operate quickly and effectively.
I have not carried a sidearm in decades. I can honestly say that to this day my right hand, my shooting hand, is free anytime I need to carry something with one hand. I still, by good training, keep my shooting-hand free. To this day! I don't think my behavior is unusual. I think it reflects that I had good training.
Cops learn that they give up their dominant hand when they enter law enforcement, and that's 24/7/365. A well trained cop does not stop to think about which hand to use for holding any thing, ever. They know that their dominant hand is free to the last. Encumber the weak hand, not the dominant hand, always. When a cop abandons this commandment, a bolt of lightning-like energy should propagate from their brain to their shooting-hand to correct the situation.
Off the point, but worthy of bringing up in terms of another police officer being shot dead, when people complain about police abuse, they are correct to do so when an officer's behavior is abusive. I want to point out, too, that every police officer copes with a certain amount of anxiety every day. Like the shooting-hand, their work becomes part of their soma, their musculature or muscle memory. The stress is there even though the stress object is not.
So being a "police officer" does not somehow remove a person from our species' fight-or-flight response system and all that comes with it. We must expect daily anxieties to wear away at the more human side of humanity in the business of policing. This is not to excuse police abuse, but to help explain it. Cops live with a real and imagined threat to their lives every day that they put on their badge. Here, a cop made a big mistake and paid the big price for being naive. Cops cannot forget that they are cops in a real world of bad guys. I am sure that most cops do not need me to remind them.
And what about the second shooter, the possi cometatus? Will he or she now deal with the ordeal related to breaking one of the great commandments? One act of poor police work makes its way to others real quick, it appears.
I am sorry.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Sunday, July 8, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
I just watched Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. It's an authentic effort and not the screaming "liberalism" the right-wing critic crowd claims about this film.
And to qualify my position on Gore and the democrats, I am not a democrat or republican.
I am in favor of leaving this planet in better shape than I found it, and it looks like I am going to fail. So Al's efforts at educating the World's population are well received by this critic. We should note, too, that there are many other things this millionaire, ruling-elite, Vietnam Veteran could do with his time.
To the point, I do not see anything manipulative in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. This is an Ethical production with a big "E," not a for-profit or political production. He is an environmentalist, a shallow environmentalist, but just the same, concerned with a whole lot more than belly-button politics or a place in history.
Al notes his introduction to the subject of increased CO2 in his college years during the 1950's. He shows video of his professor, a cutting-edge researcher on the increase of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere. Al then notes various environmental events. There is no dogma here, only figures and graphs, besides pictures. Basically, Al presents an argument from beginning, to middle, to ending with scientific method as his source of validity: observation and replication of findings under the same or similar conditions that anyone else can duplicate.
Population, technology, and inappropriate use of resources lead to Global Warming, according to Al. Al points out the US's lop-sided use of resources while noting that, ironically, the US is one of two "advanced" nations on Earth (Australia being the other), which continues to deny Global Warming's consequences for the future.
If I were to point to a "liberal" bias in Al's production, it is in his failure to point to capitalism's part in Global Warming, the necessity to grow-or-die. He leaves capitalism untouched as a source of greed and manipulation of the sources of production, consumption, and information, although he does point out that the dominant media are in the business of manipulating information. Al knows all to well about the Tobacco industry's lies and manipulation from personal experience. So it is not a big leap for Al to understand the same manipulation of the public and similar propaganda put forth by other growth maniacs.
Of course, Al points to the inherent mechanisms of capitalism to revolutionize technology. Solar, wind, and conservation are among his solutions for the Earth's fever, which can be eased through economic means and individual efforts.
I say "good" for Al Gore and his willingness to point out the destruction of Earth's many habitats as we play our part in destroying future generations' prospects for survival. Good for Al to point out the greater likelihood of nuclear war because of Global Warming.
He did come up short on the micro-biological consequences of Global Warming, but then, getting folks to follow and understand the big picture while connecting the dots is enough of a challenge.
My last comments on this for now: We need to keep in mind that our culture is basically anti-intellectual. Al Gore's presentation of himself over the decades has been a bit too intellectual for the general public. If Al played football or drove a race car, his words would carry more influence with Joe Six-Pack.
Good for you Al Gore. Now quite the DemoPublicans and you'll really rank high with me.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
And to qualify my position on Gore and the democrats, I am not a democrat or republican.
I am in favor of leaving this planet in better shape than I found it, and it looks like I am going to fail. So Al's efforts at educating the World's population are well received by this critic. We should note, too, that there are many other things this millionaire, ruling-elite, Vietnam Veteran could do with his time.
To the point, I do not see anything manipulative in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. This is an Ethical production with a big "E," not a for-profit or political production. He is an environmentalist, a shallow environmentalist, but just the same, concerned with a whole lot more than belly-button politics or a place in history.
Al notes his introduction to the subject of increased CO2 in his college years during the 1950's. He shows video of his professor, a cutting-edge researcher on the increase of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere. Al then notes various environmental events. There is no dogma here, only figures and graphs, besides pictures. Basically, Al presents an argument from beginning, to middle, to ending with scientific method as his source of validity: observation and replication of findings under the same or similar conditions that anyone else can duplicate.
Population, technology, and inappropriate use of resources lead to Global Warming, according to Al. Al points out the US's lop-sided use of resources while noting that, ironically, the US is one of two "advanced" nations on Earth (Australia being the other), which continues to deny Global Warming's consequences for the future.
If I were to point to a "liberal" bias in Al's production, it is in his failure to point to capitalism's part in Global Warming, the necessity to grow-or-die. He leaves capitalism untouched as a source of greed and manipulation of the sources of production, consumption, and information, although he does point out that the dominant media are in the business of manipulating information. Al knows all to well about the Tobacco industry's lies and manipulation from personal experience. So it is not a big leap for Al to understand the same manipulation of the public and similar propaganda put forth by other growth maniacs.
Of course, Al points to the inherent mechanisms of capitalism to revolutionize technology. Solar, wind, and conservation are among his solutions for the Earth's fever, which can be eased through economic means and individual efforts.
I say "good" for Al Gore and his willingness to point out the destruction of Earth's many habitats as we play our part in destroying future generations' prospects for survival. Good for Al to point out the greater likelihood of nuclear war because of Global Warming.
He did come up short on the micro-biological consequences of Global Warming, but then, getting folks to follow and understand the big picture while connecting the dots is enough of a challenge.
My last comments on this for now: We need to keep in mind that our culture is basically anti-intellectual. Al Gore's presentation of himself over the decades has been a bit too intellectual for the general public. If Al played football or drove a race car, his words would carry more influence with Joe Six-Pack.
Good for you Al Gore. Now quite the DemoPublicans and you'll really rank high with me.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
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