Maybe not “apologists” but our dispatchers are telling people they won’t be sending police to respond to calls because the police have been “defunded”.

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Washington DC police lodge sells Jack Daniels illegally across state lines for 3 years. Full article in Washington Post. Here’s a non paywall summary.

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I’m surprised they didn’t split up the haul amongst themselves so they could each have grand ole time this weekend. Kinda like they did when they seized beer and weed from us when we were underage.

You’re right it’s shitty parenting. So the solution to shitty parents is to execute their kids? Problem solved I guess.

In this specific case she was training a new officer. I’m sure that involves looking for any minor infraction and enforcing as hard as possible. Got to give the rookies some experience.

To paraphrase, the reason is the racism inherent in the system.