Training, peer learning & a political environment that allow the police to get away with many, many abuses of power both small & large all combine in a toxic stew of malpractice. Historically… (View Post)

The “defund the police” movement is right, it seems, in their analysis that much US policing is unreformable & needs digging out by the roots and replacing wholesale. Their actual policies & … (View Post)

I suspect if the men who intend to abuse the system by obtaining GRCs for their own ends found themselves locked up elsewhere every time because the prison service had access to that information as o… (View Post)

As ever, it would really help if we had access to the judge’s sentencing remarks, which will explain how the rules have been applied to reach the final sentence. It’s possible they haven’t been made … (View Post)

This is mostly internal politics: Can’t possibly fund a new jet in the same role as the F16 - that would have competed with the vested interests who were funding the F22 program! How about a complete… (View Post)