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Kucinich submits resolution to impeach Dick Cheney · 481 days ago
Congressman and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has filed House Resolution 333 to begin the process of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. From hereon let us declare: Mr. Kucinich is a true American hero and patriot. I wish him luck on his courageous endeavor.
You can read a synopsis or the full text of HR 333 on his Congressional website.
— SWAT Team
Rev. Calvin O. Butts II wants NYPD reform · 612 days ago
Does Rev. Butts really think anything will get done? I wish him luck, but it doesn’t seem like he has enough inertia behind him to get anything done. Bloomberg is only pretending to care, and for some reason Al Sharpton was standing there with Butts yet the article is quoting Butts instead of Sharpton. Sharpton has clout on a national level, so why wasn’t he the figurehead for this call for reform in the New York Police Department if they really think it’s going to accomplish anything?
From The New York Times:
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, one of New York’s most prominent and moderate black clerics, demanded yesterday that the city rein in rogue members of the Police Department whom he described as “ignorant savages who continue to prey upon our people as if we have no respect by virtue of our humanity or our citizenship.”The surprisingly sharp comments by Mr. Butts were made at a news conference outside City Hall that was called to announce a march for today to protest the killing of an unarmed man, Sean Bell, on Nov. 25 by the police.
At yesterday’s event, political and community leaders said they planned to challenge Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to adopt a list of proposed changes in policing including several that were presented after Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, was killed by police officers in 1999. For Mr. Butts, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the pointed remarks represented a marked change.
— SWAT Team
Una canción del rap llamó ya "50 tiros" · 622 days ago
Estaba en reinas cuando ocurrió esto que tiraba. Mientras que caminé a través de la ciudad la mañana próxima, vi títulos del periódico sobre ella en cada caja del periódico. Éste es una de las historias más ridículas y más tristes de la brutalidad del policía que he oído en un rato. ¿Cincuenta tiros encendidos en los sospechosos quiénes no tenían ninguna arma, y estaban bajo investigación al lado de una vice escuadrilla del crimen? No cuido qué clase de droga/crimen de la prostitución ella estaba potencialmente implicada adentro, vaciando sus clips en el coche cuando no se encendió ningunos tiros siempre detrás son indignantes. Incluso Michael Bloomberg, alcalde de la ciudad, está llamando éste como él es. El rapper Papoose de Brooklyn lanzó una pista llamada “50 tiros” que ventilaron en la estación 97 calientes del rap este fin de semana.
Del Newsday.com:
Entre los sonidos del tiro y las muestras de la obra clásica de la civil-derecho-era del SAM Cooke del cantante del alma “un cambio va a venir,” las tomas de Papoose tiene como objetivo a policía.“If your reason was you thought he carried a gun / That means you killed him for nothing because he ain’t had one,”
él raps. (“Si era tu razón pensaste que él llevó un arma/que los medios tú te mataron para nada porque lo no tienen uno”)Pero Papoose tiene cierta alabanza templada para alcalde Michael Bloomberg, por lo menos con respecto a su precursor, Rudy Giuliani: “He got some better manners / But let’s see if we get some better policy.” (“Él consiguió algunas maneras mejores / pero dejarnos ve si conseguimos una cierta política mejor.”)
ACTUALIZACIÓN: Líricas y mp3 ahora disponibles.
— SWAT Team
chicagocrime.org Revisión · 622 days ago
chicagocrime.org es un Web site que sigue y analiza todos los crímenes en la ciudad de Chicago divulgada al departamento del policía de Chicago. Puedes buscar por el tipo del crimen, dirección/districto, fecha, sala, tipo de la localización (IE. soporte del taco o callejón de bowling), etc.
La parte más interesante del sitio es el Blotter, que los administradores del sitio utilizan atar abajo de informes del policía dentro de la base de datos con los informes reales del periodista de los crímenes del Chicago Journal. No parece todo ése muchos de los incidentes encontrados en el extremo de la base de datos para arriba que es asociado a las sinopsis del periódico, pero pienso que a que faltan los medios justos el Chicago Journal hacia fuera en muchos del crimen divulgó. Están buscando las sugerencias para otros periódicos que proporcionarían las sinopsis del crimen de Chicago tan esperanzadamente que el Blotter mejorará con tiempo.
La segunda parte interesante del sitio es Crímenes a lo largo de una ruta, que es un mashup de los mapas de Google que permite que dibujes una ruta entre tantos puntos pues quisieras y buscarías la base de datos para los crímenes divulgados a lo largo de todas las porciones de cualesquiera calles incluiste en la ruta.
Ahora, incluso no vivo en Chicago, así que éste es todo el bonito mucha novedad a mí. No obstante para los transeúntes de la ciudad ventosa, puedes perder por lo menos algunos minutos que juegan alrededor con las varias características, después deseando tenían algo similar para cualquier ciudad vives en también.
— SWAT Team
Already a rap song called "50 Shots" · 625 days ago
I was in Queens when this shooting took place. As I walked through the city the next morning, I saw newspaper headlines about it in every newspaper box. This is one of the most ridiculous and sad stories of police brutality I’ve heard in a while. Fifty shots fired at suspects who had no weapons, and were under investigation by a vice crime squad? I don’t care what kind of drug/prostitution crime they were potentially involved in, emptying their clips into the car when no shots were ever fired back is outrageous. Even Michael Bloomberg, mayor of the city, is calling this one like it is. Brooklyn rapper Papoose released a track called “50 Shots” which aired on rap station Hot 97 this weekend.
From Newsday.com:
Between gunshot sounds and samples from soul singer Sam Cooke’s civil-rights-era classic “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Papoose takes aim at the police.“If your reason was you thought he carried a gun / That means you killed him for nothing because he ain’t had one,” he raps.
But Papoose has some temperate praise for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at least in comparison to his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani: “He got some better manners / But let’s see if we get some better policy.”
UPDATE: Lyrics and mp3 now available.
— SWAT Team
chicagocrime.org Review · 625 days ago
chicagocrime.org is a website that tracks and analyzes all crimes in the city of Chicago reported to the Chicago Police Department. You can search by crime type, address/district, date, ward, type of location (ie. ATM or bowling alley), etc.
The most interesting part of the site is the Blotter, which the site administrators use to tie down police reports within the database with actual journalist reports of the crimes from the Chicago Journal. It doesn’t look like all that many of the incidents found in the database end up being associated with synopses from the newspaper, but I think that just means the Chicago Journal misses out on a lot of crime reported. They are looking for suggestions for other newspapers who would provide synopses of Chicago crime so hopefully the Blotter will improve with time.
The second most interesting part of the site is Crimes along a route, which is a Google maps mashup that allows you to draw a route between as many points as you’d like and search the database for crimes reported along all of the portions of whichever streets you included in the route.
Now, I don’t even live in Chicago, so this is all pretty much novelty to me. However for non-residents of the Windy City, you can waste at least a few minutes playing around with the various features, then wishing they had something like this for whatever city you live in too.
— SWAT Team
