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The two most sensible policies to minimize the rate of spreading are to wear masks and to restrict travel, particularly by air. You telling someone to stay home just because you can't be bothered to wear a mask is incredibly self-centered. Masks should absolutely be mandatory at any indoor...

If you paint with the broad brush that there are only 3 races in the entire world and that's the only thing that matters then sure. If you want to acknowledge that there are dozens of ethnicities and cultures within each race then you'll see the obvious flaw here. Call a Korean or Japanese...

No. It's fair in that it has clearly communicated standards. My issue is that we don't train to it, and it contains several exercises that require specific training to excel. I'm glad you got your award by just playing soccer, but recognize that playing soccer at an elementary grade level...

There are many fit and healthy kids who can't do well on the test because of genetic development timing. Conversely, there are kids who do well because of the same reason. MLB can't even predict which 17-19 year olds will become major league all stars with any kind of accuracy because they're...

What about when a British person plays an American (Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart)? What about when an Australian plays an American (Chris Hemsworth, Mel Gibson)? What about when one of those Australians plays a Scottish hero? What about when an Austrian body builder plays...

'The left' is synonymous with Democrats in America. What's dumb is attributing the actions of out-of-touch Hollywood producers to an entire political party that has nothing to do with it.

Could you name which film studio executive who is now an elected Democrat making these changes? Or at least point me to what Democrat legislation is mandating them? Or maybe find on the DNC party website any official platform for post facto editing movies?

Yeah, I totally take my 7 year old into the yard to do pull-ups, situps, and shuttle runs every day. She loves it. /s The point I was making is the test examines some very specific movements during a time in a kid's development where there is a wide range of 'normal.' The kids who do the best...

Did your school actually prepare kids for it? We just played games like dodgeball...then one day the two kids in the class that could naturally do a pullup got an award.

You're still talking raw numbers instead of PFRs and IFRs. Since we can't test everyone randomly we can only go by PFR as a lower bound of IFR. Also it's still early. There's another flu season coming where this will still be in full swing. People will travel for Thanksgiving and Christmas...

This current media storm is a bit of a lesson in communication. Our political leaders tried to 'sell' the shutdown with 'stay home, save lives' when that was never the goal or even an achievable aim. So the mass public had an expectation that a few months of stocking up on toilet paper was going...

In all seriousness, Lake Tahoe is awesome. To those who asked: swimming on the left coast generally requires a wet suit. That includes Lake Tahoe.

Good old tricky Dick

Because they're going by trends and positive test rates not the overall population infection rate. Also if you've ever been to the NYC metro area you would know that people routinely live and work in different states. There are millions of people who have a business reason to go between...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/here-are-the-8-states-that-trigger-coronavirus-quarantines-for-travelers-going-to-new-york.html Put the tinfoil hat away. I'm on the side of COVID restrictions being stupid, but these governors didn't make their decisions just to stick it to the GOP.

You’ve ironically pointed it out. The character limit on Twitter makes it a great echo chamber to post mob opinions without any supporting evidence, and to get positive reinforcement through likes and shares. Kind of like your posts deriding it.

This unironically is the truth. Without broadband internet on smart phones we couldn't implement most of these 'social' distancing policies.

So if I understand the thesis of the report... The TR CO remains fired because in hindsight he made some sub-optimal decisions during an unprecedented pandemic? When does Dr Fauci get fired for unnecessarily wrecking the economy?

Probable cause is for searching your property where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy or obtaining a warrant. Cops don't need probable cause to stop and frisk someone in public; probable cause is the threshold to arrest them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._Ohio?wprov=sfla1...

Counter-point: A good cop familiar with the neighborhood knows who is walking home from their night shift and who is looking to make a late night drug deal. It's not really that hard to figure out. Reasonable suspicion is legally enough to initiate a search. And a good cop might follow the...

I think that you took my statement as sarcastic when none was intended. I got the point.

Varies by location of course. Many NY departments require some college, but none of them care about GPA. It's strictly based on entrance exam scores. There are a lot of of people who screwed around in high school who can ace that test for PDs that don't require any college.

Yeah. In a few years I'm going to have to help teenagers navigate a world where everything they do can be recorded, and everything they post on FB/twitter/IG/whatever will last forever. Even snapchat pics.

If you're a high school grad with a clean criminal background and not cut out for college, it's one of the best paying careers in many places. And they're almost always hiring.

It varies by location and state. In NY it's part of the state pension system. Full pay after 25 years based on top 3 years of pay (usually the last 3). Full medical coverage with no monthly premiums. It's also exempt from state income tax, which in NY is substantial. Military service time...

DUI isn't the only crime like this. When I took a CJ class, it cited a study where people were polled on what they thought was fair punishment for a crime. It was often significantly less than the statutory minimum sentence. Legislatures often enact strict minimum sentence laws based on public...

I don't think that anything that anyone says to this person or any type of training is going to change his beliefs. The only thing he'll do is be more carefully on the internet, but guaranteed his thought process will impact his subordinates. Didn't he have to write some personal statement(s)...

A bit of a more coherent explanation now that I haven't had a bottle of wine with my wife (yet)... HPCON C = telework or stay at home unless mission essential. Liberty radius is restricted and no leave outside local area to protect population 'bubble.' Mission essential personnel (including...

Not absurd at all. Draw a parallel between police perception issues and officers posting vacation pics while people are restricted to, erm 'ROM', on ships... Sailors expect us to make policies to take care of them, not to restrict them for over two months while the ivory tower folk enjoy...

No, just don't rub it in. You're doing the equivalent of eating a leg of lamb in front of a starving person. Also, if the policy writ large is stupid (and it is), then how much noise was made before SECDEF released a spreadsheet where 38 states were cleared for travel and leave but not a single...

Congrats. NETC, who also oversees aviation training, has promulgated a more restrictive policy. And many operational commands have similar restrictions to prevent the next TR But you go ahead and keep perpetuating the notion that rules don't apply to officers.

Honest question: as a brand new LT, did you have all of the qualifications and experience to be a DH? If not then it was appropriate for your CO not to give you an EP... you were not 'the best and fully qualified.' The fact that someone got an EP when he was a poor performer is a bit of a...

HPCON C. It's been a thing since March.

I'm sure the thousands of sailors confined to the ship, base, or barracks as a result of asinine COVID-19 policy will feel a whole lot better about it after reading your post. I'm also sure that (presuming you are still AD) they won't notice at all that you violated a slew of orders to stay at home.

Can you share the highlights?

I would argue that the system isn't at fault, but the mentoring of some COs. If someone doesn't pass muster for the next milestone, their FITREP needs to say that in plain English. Corollary: What a subordinate and superior consider as 'doing a good job' are often not aligned.

I think that's splitting hairs. It's hard to imagine an organization with systemic racism without some systematic issues. I don't like personal anecdotes because most people are really bad at self assessment and accountability, and especially weaker sailors and officers. Other than people...

This is still missing the point. One doesn't make a case for systemic racism through personal anecdotes. Some items that could demonstrate systemic racism include: Policies or procedures that target people based on race Recruitment strategies that shut out minorities Promotions preferentially...

So fixing racism is a lot like the '69 Mets pennant run?

I'm not saying that O-6's behavior is okay. I'm saying that it's a completely different problem with different solutions if that O-6 were an example of broader systemic racism rather than someone who slipped between the cracks. I'm also saying it's wrong to accuse an entire organization of...

He gave an example of one of the 3,000 O-6s in the Navy. The keyword here is 'systemic.'

Okay, hold on... being a minority doesn't give you a free pass to accuse the entire military of systemic racism. That's a very serious accusation. You're gonna have to bring some proof beyond a flag officer's talking points.

If fast food joints and liquor stores are essential to stay open, school faculty can accept some risk to educate our children.

Let me rephrase: To solve the problem of recidivism, you'd have to suppress records. Most companies have blanket policies to not hire and/or to fire anyone who has any LEO interaction. You could educate the next Dr. House in prison and it won't mean jack if no one will hire him. That's the...

Wrong focus. Prisons aren't the problem. Being so much as arrested is a scarlet letter that will drastically limit someone's opportunities. You'd need a law to suppress criminal records for employment.

Look, this whole thing has been a cluster fuck of an overreaction. Been saying that since March. We're going to lose 200-400k Americans and there's nothing we can do about that. Point is that article draws an invalid conclusion based on flawed analysis, and we shouldn't spread that dribble.

The DOJ can release 'best practices' anytime it wants. To give those 'best practices' any teeth would require an amendment.

I think we have to be realistic and bound the solution set: the police have to make internal changes without any additional resources, and any external changes will consist of laws that provide additional restrictions on what the police can and cannot do without committing any additional resources.

Solutions I've seen thrown around before. Here's why I think they don't work... 1) Qualified immunity didn't just 'happen.' It exists for two reasons: First, because random beat criminal would love to just sue as a hail mary, and that costs money to defend on a mass scale and 2) organized crime...

Except that, due to the isolation policies that went into effect, it's difficult to compare populations in different countries. PFR and IFR varies widely.