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[Mike E]

Percentage-wise is why it is a racism problem. If the ratio of unarmed black or white men was similar to the population, the issue is a simple change in police procedure.

As the percentage of black people is higher, it is a racism issue.

[K-Hod]

It makes you wonder, what the hell they are doing/saying behind closed doors when some of the events reported are happening......

[Mike E]

Starting to think America deserves Trump. Trouble is, the rest of the world doesn't.

[K-Hod]

The Steve Kean drink-driving defence is spreading....-http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14753108._My_friend_spiked_my_lager_with_vodka____woman_argues_case_against_drink_drive_ban/

[Steve Moss]

Percentage-wise is why it is a racism problem. If the ratio of unarmed black or white men was similar to the population, the issue is a simple change in police procedure.

As the percentage of black people is higher, it is a racism issue.

This is not actually the complete picture.

50% of police shootings are white, 26% black and the balance Hispanic/other.

Factor in the crime rate by race, and the 26% of black shootings is statistically appropriate (though factually unfortunate).

White officers are less likely to shoot a black suspect, than are black officers.

For these and other interesting statistics, feel free to read:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler#

That said:

1. I support law enforcement.

2. But police are being militarized and we need to reverse that progress. I'd be perfectly happy if they all carried revolvers with the heavy equipment reserved for SWAT. We should also remove financial incentives to the police seizing property.

3. The situation in some parts of the world (no go areas, the militarization of drug cartels, etc) make it difficult for the police to demilitarize.

4. Police who commit murder should be treated like anyone else.

5. All of the above being said, Black Lives Matters is a crock. All Lives Matter, including Blue Lives, Black Lives, Brown Lives, etc.

[Husky]

I always find 'documentaries' like this short BBC one on "guns in the USA" help to put shootings into perspective:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37292306

[Mike E]

This is not actually the complete picture.

50% of police shootings are white, 26% black and the balance Hispanic/other.

Factor in the crime rate by race, and the 26% of black shootings is statistically appropriate (though factually unfortunate).

White officers are less likely to shoot a black suspect, than are black officers.

For these and other interesting statistics, feel free to read:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler#

That said:

1. I support law enforcement.

2. But police are being militarized and we need to reverse that progress. I'd be perfectly happy if they all carried revolvers with the heavy equipment reserved for SWAT. We should also remove financial incentives to the police seizing property.

3. The situation in some parts of the world (no go areas, the militarization of drug cartels, etc) make it difficult for the police to demilitarize.

4. Police who commit murder should be treated like anyone else.

5. All of the above being said, Black Lives Matters is a crock. All Lives Matter, including Blue Lives, Black Lives, Brown Lives, etc.

I can get behind all those as a compromise between our views

[Baz]

This is not actually the complete picture.

50% of police shootings are white, 26% black and the balance Hispanic/other.

Factor in the crime rate by race, and the 26% of black shootings is statistically appropriate (though factually unfortunate).

White officers are less likely to shoot a black suspect, than are black officers.

For these and other interesting statistics, feel free to read:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler#

That said:

1. I support law enforcement.

2. But police are being militarized and we need to reverse that progress. I'd be perfectly happy if they all carried revolvers with the heavy equipment reserved for SWAT. We should also remove financial incentives to the police seizing property.

3. The situation in some parts of the world (no go areas, the militarization of drug cartels, etc) make it difficult for the police to demilitarize.

4. Police who commit murder should be treated like anyone else.

5. All of the above being said, Black Lives Matters is a crock. All Lives Matter, including Blue Lives, Black Lives, Brown Lives, etc.

It all really comes back down to the gun law debate, less guns in general circulation IMO means less nervous/ trigger happy cops, in the UK cops are far less likely to draw a gun on someone who has robbed a supermarket, as the chances that person has a gun are much less.

I don't disagree with any of your other points, and I think that point 4 in particular would help settle the outrage over some of the pretty obvious cover-ups seen in the past few years.

[Baz]

So Corbyn re-elected with 60% of the vote, a few percentage points up from last year.

His first act - asks members to join in a day of protest against the Grammar school proposal.

[Amo]

Five killed by a gunman in a Washington mall.

Gunman was originally reported as Hispanic, turns out he's actually Turkish. No motive known.

[Steve Moss]

Five killed by a gunman in a Washington mall.

Gunman was originally reported as Hispanic, turns out he's actually Turkish. No motive known.

Correct. He was a Turkish immigrant. Motive still unknown?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-custody-washington-mall-shooting-killed-5-n653931

A cartoonist is killed in Jordan for insulting Islam. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/world/middleeast/nahed-hattar-jordanian-writer-killed.html?_r=1

Why do we import these people?

[K-Hod]

The USA isn't an easy country to get into either! Though it's easy to access firearms once you are in........

[Steve Moss]

While the mall shooter's motives aren't known, allegedly, his blog did appear to support ISIS.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/26/mall-shooting-suspect-had-blog-with-picture-isis-leader.html

[Tom]

Another wacko in America goes on a shooting spree

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/26/us/houston-shooting/index.html

Luckily only he was killed

[ABBEY]

12,000 asylum seekers gone missing .Such wonderful honest people.

[Audax]

Another wacko in America goes on a shooting spree

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/26/us/houston-shooting/index.html

Luckily only he was killed

If one reads up on this, the shooter was a troubled "unsuccessful"(?) lawyer, DeSai is his name, a Indian type of name and he was wearing a uniform with Nazi emblems. One can look it all up.

[MarkBRFC71]

801 people killed by cops in the US this year. And a whole swathe of Americans don't think they have a gun crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

[Husky]

Obama has always been 'just one letter away'.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/715977/al-nusra-us-arming-jihadists-syria

Worst President EVER!

[ultrablue]

Obama has always been 'just one letter away'.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/715977/al-nusra-us-arming-jihadists-syria

Worst President EVER!

An Al-Nusra millitant isn't exactly the most credible source.

But if true, the Obama admin wouldn't be the first to do something like this. I'm pretty sure it's an impeachable offence for a US President NOT to indirectly arm and fund shady dissidents fighting an unfriendly dictator.

[Husky]

12,000 asylum seekers gone missing .Such wonderful honest people.

I do hope they aren't those religious types. Or there's no more Beano for us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/world/middleeast/nahed-hattar-jordanian-writer-killed.html?_r=0

[joey_big_nose]

With the repairs to the Houses of Parliament costing a minimum of £7bn, does anyone else feel it's a great opportunity to move them out of central London?

They could be re-located to a somewhere more geographically central, at a much lower cost, and somewhere where the housing costs for the public paying their mortgages would be significantly lower.

I'm sure the buildings themselves would be very attractive for property developers.

The Scottish Parliament building cost £414m to give a comparison.

I have to say moving parliament and ministries out of London looks like extremely good sense to me.

London is in a full blown crisis at the moment. Too few houses, too many people, cost of living way too high for those not on £50k+. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Moving parliament to Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds would be transformational for London and the region it relocates to.

[Norbert Rassragr]

I'd agree, though part of me appreciates the great gothic masterpiece that is the Parliament building. The new building would be some really tedious glass and steel thing that would look like 30,000 other buildings.

[Husky]

An Al-Nusra millitant isn't exactly the most credible source.

I know. But even more ludicrous is that the mainstream media constantly pass off reports on Syria from a pseudo terrorist based on a council estate in Coventry as facts.

[Norbert Rassragr]

I've never been contacted by the press Husky.

[Mike E]

I'd agree, though part of me appreciates the great gothic masterpiece that is the Parliament building. The new building would be some really tedious glass and steel thing that would look like 30,000 other buildings.

New building? They should just use regular office space instead of feeling like they're above the rest of us.