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KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm pro-American =

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm pro-American =

Where’s the merch???

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm pro-American =

defixione wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:23 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm pro-American =

That suit is in direct violation of the United States of America flag laws.

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jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:01 pm pro-American =

Where’s the merch???

fuck! i knew i forgot something

The tribulations that have swept America’s big cities over the past few years have been nearly biblical in scale: a pandemic, racial strife, rising homelessness, a surge in violent crime. Which is why municipal elections across the map — in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, among others — have been especially contentious and ideological.

Dallas, however, stands as an exception. Last month, Democratic Mayor Eric Johnson, 47, cruised unopposed to a second term, marking the first time that had happened here since 1967. (The last mayor to be reelected without an opponent was a towering figure in city history whose name, by weird coincidence, was ... Erik Jonsson.)

In a recent poll by the Garin Hart Yang Research Group, Johnson’s approval rating stood at a gravity-defying 77 percent, with 54 percent saying their city is headed in the right direction.

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What explains Johnson’s success amid all this was one issue: his unbending stance on crime.

When Johnson took office, violent crime was rising in Dallas to levels not seen since the 1990s. “And then it got even worse once the pandemic hit,” Johnson told me. “I think it actually required a slightly different skill set than what is normally required. And that skill set really revolves mostly around a certain amount of conviction around some principles and being willing to hold the line on some things and withstand some direct hits politically.”

Those political hits came during the racial reckoning that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. As in other cities, there were calls in Dallas to “defund the police,” and the city council was considering trimming the budget by cutting police overtime by $7 million.

Johnson not only opposed the idea but made a counterproposal to boost the number of officers on the street — and to pay for it by reducing what he called the “bloated salaries” of the highest-paid city officials instead. “#DefundtheBureaucracy,” he tweeted. Black Lives Matter protesters marched on his house multiple times. And the city council resoundingly voted down his salary-cut proposal.

Still, Johnson believes he made his point. “The defund the police movement, despite what people in some cases now want to pretend like was happening at the time, there are people now who want to pretend like that wasn’t actually a real thing. It was a very real thing,” he told me. “And if we’re just being honest about it, my fellow mayors, a lot of them across the country bowed to that political pressure and decided to make across-the-board cuts to their police departments."

Johnson also demanded a more aggressive strategy for combating violent crime — which was delivered by his new police chief, Eddie Garcia, who took over the department in early 2021. Parts of it involved tactics such as deploying “violence interrupters” to resolve street-level conflicts and guide those who need them to social services, and cleaning up blighted areas, such as trash-filled vacant lots and dilapidated buildings, where crime can breed.

The plan that Garcia developed, working with criminologists at the University of Texas at San Antonio, also refocused policing in Dallas on “hot spots.” They divided the city into 101,000 “microgrids” — areas roughly the size of two football fields side-by-side — and discovered that crime was heavily concentrated in relatively few — an apartment complex here or a nightclub parking lot there. Just 50 of these hot spots accounted for almost 10 percent of violent street crime in Dallas.

These high-risk areas were where the department sent police cars to sit with their emergency lights on or where 10-officer crime-response teams were dispatched.

This approach can be polarizing, given that hot spots tend to be in communities of color. But statistics suggest it is working. Of the nation’s largest cities, Dallas appears to be the only one to buck the trend of rising crime; in each of the past two years, statistics for murders, rapes and aggravated assaults have gone down.

Skeptics will note that crime numbers are volatile, and that different jurisdictions collect them differently, making comparisons across cities imprecise. And in the early months of this year, the tally in one category — homicides — has ticked up again in Dallas.

But Johnson, who obsesses about data, says he is confident that the trend is real, and that it is holding. “I’m either the luckiest mayor in the United States,” he said, “or this stuff actually works.”

randylahey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:32 am Imagine defending teachers hiding anything about kids from their parents.

That's how biased some of you have become

twocoach wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:39 am

randylahey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:32 am Imagine defending teachers hiding anything about kids from their parents.

That's how biased some of you have become

Not all parents have the best interests of their children in mind. If you think they all do then you do not work with parents and their kids much.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:57 am

twocoach wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:39 am

randylahey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:32 am Imagine defending teachers hiding anything about kids from their parents.

That's how biased some of you have become

Not all parents have the best interests of their children in mind. If you think they all do then you do not work with parents and their kids much.

No shit.

Randy - a kid comes to the teacher, tells the teacher the kid is attracted to people of the kid's same sex. The kid tells the teacher that their parents are avid Fox News viewers, throw the word "fag" around casually, make homophobic jokes about people who drink Bud Light, and so on. The kid says he's seen dad grab mom by the neck or throat.

You want that teacher to be obligated to tell the parents they have a possibly-gay kid?