• youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Next we’ll see all US cops wearing masks in their regular day to day activities, like in the Watchmen series.

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    9 days ago

    I get the impression that the cops are about to hate facial recognition all of the sudden, for no particular reason

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      8 days ago

      There’s a reason ICE conceal their faces.

      They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

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      Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.

      And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!

      But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

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        “All of the sudden” is only valid because it’s so commonly (incorrectly) used. Much as it annoys me, that’s just how language works.

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          “of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

          (Note, I modernized the spellings of “sudden” rather than try to switch focus back and forth)

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            8 days ago

            People aren’t saying it because they’re language scholars, it’s because they misheard the proper modern usage. So it goes for many language shifts.

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        8 days ago

        Non-Anglo here.
        Totally not distracted bcs my brain autocorrected it to “all of a sudden” without even noticing.
        A bit like “It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are”
        Also never seen/heard the “the” variant. (Well consciously that is).

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      8 days ago

      Also what about cops outside of the LAPD? This app only useful if it works on any cop.

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    8 days ago

    What are they so afraid of? They’re public servants, so they should be publicly identifiable. If they don’t like it, get off the government payroll

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      Because criminals get out of jail and can go after their families. We had someone leave a bomb on the doorstep of a judge in our neighborhood.

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        That’s a fair concern to a degree of course even the most fair sentences might have a disgruntled person on the other end of it but a fair justice system that serves and protects its community equally has little to fear overall. When a justice system is unfair, unequal, does not serve or protects its community that risk goes way up however they only have themselves to blame for the increased risk. An occasional crazy is just the price of being a human but if the public in general is against you, you’ve done that to yourself through your own actions

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          There is resistance everywhere, but LA was a special target for the GOP. They are gearing up to make Chicago just as hot here soon.

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        8 days ago

        Am I the only one who thinks police should be held to a higher standard of accountabilities?

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        I wasn’t expecting crims to go after their own families, but I’m here for it….

        Was the judge a dick head?

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          If I remember correctly they were convicted of embezzlement. Narcissists and psychopaths get mad when they are held accountable.

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    Putting it out there for someone to do this for cops in the UK. I can’t run infrastructure but the cops terrorise out local community and constantly refuse to identify themselves/turn off their badge cam.