On Arpaio -- what do your local police think?

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Friday August 25, 2017 · 10:28 PM PDT

2017/08/25 · 22:28

I sat in my car for half-an-hour after I read the announcement, trying to post on Facebook and erasing it and trying again. Eventually I settled on a question to my local (Arlington, TX) police department.

Greetings to the Arlington Police Department. Got a quick question for you -- will the APD unambiguously condemn the Arpaio pardon? He flouted a federal judge's order and he was convicted and he will walk anyways -- is this appropriate? Did this serve the interest of the law? Is this how I should expect you to conduct yourselves?

Arpaio's victims learned many things today about how to effectively resolve disputes they have with Arizona law enforcement, and which laws are only followed by chumps and rubes and suckers -- do you agree with these lessons? Do they please you? Do they make you safer? Do they apply here, in my city? I would like you to tell me they do not, and I would like you to do this now.

Now, I’ve spammed it to hell and gone — two Democratic Facebook groups, two city chat groups, three reporters, three contact venues at the PD, and some other things — but it does occur to me I’d like to know everybody else’s answer, too. I’d enjoy it if every police department in the nation had to choose between standing up and being counted as an American, one who expects the law to be obeyed, or silently endorsing Trump’s New Arizona Solution — which is apparently vigilante justice in lieu of judicial oversight.

Darden's in the news, hmm?

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Sunday October 12, 2014 · 8:54 PM PDT

2014/10/12 · 20:54

Looks like the whole Darden board got fired.

They got on my list after the crap they pulled with the ACA, and I haven't been back to a Darden property since. Can anybody with some influence contact the board and ask them if they'd like to start treating their employees like people?

Just got polled by Ras

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Saturday March 05, 2011 · 10:54 AM PST

2011/03/05 · 10:54

I just got robopolled by Rasmussen (03/05/2011, 1248 CST); I live near Dallas. They didn't ask any selection questions, they just wanted whoever picked up to start mashing buttons.

Here's the dump of the questions, if anybody finds them useful. Nothing obviously inflammatory; it sounds like basic demographics.

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Darden's in the news, hmm?

Just got polled by Ras

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