A. Kid bashes car window and then turns himself in the next day: a judge sets his bail at 1/2 million USD.
B. Police kill defenseless civilian and enjoy a statutory 10-day “cooling-off” period to get their stories straight (see our post dated 30 April 2015): a judge sets their bail at a lower amount, as reported in The Guardian (U.K.): Continue reading
More here (via the amazing Tyler Cowen).
Check out this expose’ by Eli Hager, who explains why police officers have much greater legal rights than the suspects they apprehend. Here is an excerpt from Mr Hager’s excellent essay:
A set of due-process rights for police officers under internal investigation for alleged misconduct, Maryland’s LEOBoR [Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights] includes a provision that the officers cannot be forced to make any statements for 10 days after [an] incident, during which time they are presumed to be searching for a lawyer.
In addition to this remarkable 10-day “cooling-off period”–plenty of time, by the way, for the Baltimore police to tidy up its story in the Freddie Gray case–Mr Hager’s damning essay details the following plethora of legal rights afforded to police officers accused of misconduct (emphasis added by us): Continue reading
Hey, does your favorite film pass the Bechdel Test for women in movies? A movie passes this test when it meets the following three criteria: (1) it has at least two women with identifiable names in it, (2) who talk to each other at least once, (3) about something other than a man. (More here, via Feminist Frequency.)
Is it really worth waiting in a long line for a ride that will last only a few minutes?
Hat tip: neglected_martian (via reddit).
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