The Goat Pen

We all ready for Thursdays hearings?

Oh yeah it's going to be illuminating and not a colossal waste of time so that politician fuckfaces can get a moment in the sun in front of the cameras. Spoiler alert: one side will say they were practically invited in for a tour and the other will claim that what happened was the worst thing to happen since the British burned down the White House, exciting stuff.

It will be awesome.

Of course Fox won't be showing it so y'all still have a place to bitch about gas prices.

I live in Houston, the more it costs you guys, the more money comes here.

Yeah. I'm sure your paycheck is staggering.

if Rat hadn't been an absentee father, we wouldn't have to read this stupid shit from him everyday

I just live off my wife's paycheck...

Seattle’s efforts to defund its police department and transfer some of its responsibilities to other city agencies resulted in $5 million worth of wrongful parking tickets and other administrative dysfunction, according to The Seattle Times.

Seattle is refunding roughly 100,000 parking tickets worth approximately $5 million total after transferring parking enforcement duties from police to civilian parking enforcement officers in the fall of 2021, finding that the civilian officers lacked the legal authority to write the tickets, according to The Seattle Times. Parking officers also conducted more than 10,000 car tows and impounded 1,700 cars without the proper authority during this period.

“What’s going to happen here is that we’re going to get sued, I can guarantee it,” said Chuck Labertew, president of Lincoln Towing, which has the sole contract for city-initiated towing, according to The Seattle Times. “And I’m going to forward every one of those lawsuits on over to the city.”

The decision to remove this responsibility from police was part of a push in 2020 to reduce police funding and have civilians take on jobs typically handled by police, according to The Seattle Times. The City Council cut the police budget by 17% in 2020, far short of its 50% goal.

The cost of the city’s mistake may not be limited to the $5 million in refunded tickets: people will likely contest the tows and impounds authorized by the non-police parking authority, Labertew told The Seattle Times, but the city will not refund those tows automatically.
A worker cleans off the word "people" graffitied over the word "police" at the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct as they retake the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) area, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. July 1, 2020.

A worker cleans off the word “people” graffitied over the word “police” at the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct as they retake the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) area, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. July 1, 2020.

On top of the $5 million parking ticket debacle, efforts to defund the police have limited law enforcement’s ability to prosecute serious crimes: the Seattle Police Department is not investigating new sexual assault cases due to understaffing after more than 400 officers left the force, according to The Seattle Times.

Crime has soared in Seattle in recent years: the city saw a 95% increase in shots fired and a 171% increase in people being shot from 2021 to 2022, according to The Seattle Times. Seattle’s violent crime rate, which had been steady for 30 years, suddenly jumped 20% in 2021.

eCat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:25 pm if Rat hadn't been an absentee father, we wouldn't have to read this stupid shit from him everyday

And the butthurt continues......

aTm wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:37 pm I just live off my wife's paycheck...

IB is gonna lecture you.

I hear all you Republicans are settling up another migrant caravan to get here soon. Good thinking. Won't work this time though.

"one side will say they were practically invited in for a tour"

I think some evidence to support that might be presented during these hearings. Can't wait to see who was doing the "inviting"...

aTm wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:37 pm I just live off my wife's paycheck...

Envious

Voters in San Francisco have chosen to recall embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin following a recall effort centered on his handling of rising crime across the city.

San Francisco voted to recall Boudin with 61%, compared to 39% who wanted him to stay as the district attorney, according to results at the time the Associated Press called the race.

Boudin was elected in 2019 with 50.8% of the vote and was sworn in as San Francisco's 29th district attorney on Jan. 8 2020.

Fickle 'Friscans...

The mom was on probation and was "threatened" by law enforcement if she went to the media. But she decided to go to the media after a judge said (in court) he was shortening the probation and how proud he was of her.

I think maybe, some of these cops need to quit or be fired immediately.

California resident with a gun arrested near the home of Brett Kavanaugh.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/ ... t-justice/

I guess last year we were condemning the Saudi prince for killing Kashoggi. This year we're begging him for help.

Thank you, Joe, for making OPEC great again.