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I absolutely disagree that police interactions dropped due to COVID.  The Federal Government sent out Billions to keep local governments operating.  Cops were out there.  Police interactions, however, are down as admitted by the NYT.  This is NOT because of COVID. 

You keep trying to obfuscate but you keep failing.  There is a direct correlation between the adoption of stupid liberal crime polices and crime. 

You can disagree all you want. Your position doesn't make any sense. Nebulous "liberal crime policies" are a great boogeyman, but reality has told a different story. 

I wonder what my two little ones are looking at. Probably food or something. They love food. 

The little boy is captain serious. Reminds me of... me.

Russian mercenaries (Wagner) have been in Venezuela for years to back Maduro up.  Putin congratulated Maduro on his election win and says Russia has a strategic partnership with Venezuela.  The only thing that Venezuela has is tar like petroleum which Russia doesn't need so I would assume Putin's interest is military.  Next, watch for Putin try to put some of his new nuclear missiles in Venezuala or even Cuba.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/putin-congratulates-venezuelas-maduro-election-win-2024-07-29/

My take is that I'd see Kennedy's response to missiles in Cuba 60+ years ago as precedent.  If they try, I'd be in favor of a "quarantine" just like what Kennedy did back then.  

However, the secret part of the deal that ended the crisis was that the US agreed to pull missiles out of Turkey.  Ie, it was "we'll stay out of your neighborhood if you stay our of ours."  Same applies today.  

Oldest son just bought a new boat. 34' Powerquest.

Things Badge's son isn't going to say for $1000, Alex:

Even the NYT admitted that depolicing was at least partially responsible.  If you can't accept that then I'm not the one failing to make sense. 

Liberal crime policies aren't some imaginary thing.  Even the NYT admits to it.  Why can't you? 

Come on Medina. You know he is right and how he thinks.  Why just today Kamala’s camp issued a statement that the faltering employment is Trump’s fault.  😂😂😂😂😂

Even the NYT admitted that depolicing was at least partially responsible.  If you can't accept that then I'm not the one failing to make sense. 

Liberal crime policies aren't some imaginary thing.  Even the NYT admits to it.  Why can't you? 

Because I'm into facts and not vibes. Sure, there was a movement for less policing, but that is not an actual policy. There was no widespread leftist policy adopted nationwide to have less policing. That did not happen. Some jurisdictions adopted some policies and most didn't change much of anything.

There was a monumental change in policing and everything else in 2020. That was due to COVID. Traffic patterns changes. Social patterns changes. Jobs changed. Schools changed. Everything changed, at least temporarily. This changing policing, like it changed everything else. There is no earthly reason to discount that. 

Traffic suddenly dropped. There was no reason to have speed traps, because very few people were driving. Walking the normal beats made no sense because people weren't in their normal spots. Police had to adopt. Technology always moves as well. You mentioned earlier how we needed police interactions because they might lead to discovery of other crimes. But many jurisdictions now have Flock cameras, which basically detect stolen cars. That is much more efficient and safer than having cops pull over random people for lane violations.