2y ago

Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos, whose fatal shootings of 2 men led to about $2 million in City Hall payouts, now running for judge

chicago.suntimes.com

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2y ago

Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos, whose fatal shootings of 2 men led to about $2 million in City Hall payouts, now running for judge

chicago.suntimes.com /2023/12/8/23992013/john-poulos-judge-rickey-rozelle-kajuan-raye-payouts-chicago-police-department

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The US system is a source a bewilderment to the rest of us.
- Sorry, we accidentally released a beta democracy into production.
  Planned changes include:
  bugfix: remove unneeded electoral college (slows progress down)
  bugfix: replace current hard-set limit on House with dynamic value that grows with population
  feat: add protection for voting rights to system firmware/constitution (current piecemeal legislative approach is difficult to optimize)
  bugfix: set polling location availability by population density, not population wealth
  feat: implement ranked-choice election system (deprecates first-past-the-post)
  feat: implement consequences for criminal actions taken by people who are white and conservative
  Unfortunately, these changes are not yet available, but these and more will become possible to implement if we fucking vote like our country depends on it at every level.
  
  I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes.
  
  There also seems to be open security vulnerabilities, which could potentially make it possible for a malicious actor to take control of the entire system. Consider implementing some safeguards against that.
  
  Known issues: sometimes race conditions can cause instability in the system
- And to us in the US.
- Eh, remove the gun violence and it's just garden-variety corruption.
The headline reads like satire.
It's not satire.
Lmfao, he's running as a Democrat. He's going to get crucified by liberals.
John apparently didn't read the conservative memo - crooks, criminals, rapists, pedos, and murderers are supposed to run as a Republican. They love that sort of "quality" candidate - he may have actually had a shot over there.
- You apparently don't know much about Chicago Democrats. They're buddy-buddy with the CPD. The article even mentions that soon-to-be Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot let this guy off the hook in a disciplinary case in a former position she held. This guy will do just fine if he wins the election. Hopefully, reporting on him and his crimes will prevent that, but he won't be stopped by Chicago Dems.
  I'm from Chicago. It's a great city in many respects, but its quite racist and the CPD is notoriously so. One of the worst police forces in any major U.S. city.
  
  The Chicago Democratic machine is basically Tammany Hall, for the modern era.
  Although I will say that Gov. Rod was railroaded in his prosecution.
  
  I didn't realize Chicago Dems were that bad. That really sucks. Is it just the people in power or the voting populace as well?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago
  Yeah. The first two sentences are "Democrats" and "corrupt".
  Chicago politics.
  
  Long time one party rule is a guaranteed breeding ground of corruption, no matter the party, but goddamn, the Chicago Democrats are something special.
  I think there's even a valid case from the left to accuse them of culturally appropriating large aspects La Cosa Nostra heritage and culture, all while keeping a straight face.
  Maybe not Capone, but definitely an argument for Stolen Lansky Valor. All the pencil whipping corruption, but none of the swag.
ACAB all the way. Please don't let him near the bench.

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