John Oliver discusses the outlets that cover crime, the incentives that drive them, the flawed sources they rely upon, and an alternative name for Miss Piggy.
John Oliver discusses the outlets that cover crime, the incentives that drive them, the flawed sources they rely upon, and an alternative name for Miss Piggy.
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The rainbow fentanyl scare is more urban legend and stupid than the razor blades in apples myth.
ReplyOur “police” are nothing but an authoritarian cult.
ReplyAmerica and most Americans are so corrupt and racist its their legacy these European Americans thought they could get away with it butt they forget technology. Amd now they are f…..d and everyone can see how corrupt these racist lying police and politicians are .SHAME ON YOU AMERICANS
ReplyThat smacks of all those acid tattoo conspiracy theories that were so popular in the 80’s on the tale of the Satanic panic. Since acid kind of looks like one of those Cracker Jacks temporary tattoos, the idea was that the “pushers” made it that way so little kids would take it, then they’d be addicted. As if that’s how anything worked. First of all, drug dealers aren’t desperately trying to increase their potential sales number by creating new clients. Trust me. There’s no shortage of those. Every Halloween since forever has had parents warned to check the candy. Even though nothing has ever happened. No razor blades in apples. No poisoned candy. Missing cats. It was all a big lie. Nothing was EVER found.
ReplyDamn powerful friends
ReplyAll it proves is a large majority of my fellow Americans are fucking scared morons. Once you do a real drug once you realize all the lies you’ve been told your whole life. What follows is being able to look at people who you used to believe and respect with complete contempt.
ReplyTechnically correct is always contextually incorrect. The George Floyd case was technically correct that he had a medical emergency. The context was that it was the inability to breathe caused by external pressure to the throat caused by a knee to the neck.
Replyits always strange how much american TV Leans into crime. In Germany crime only makes the news if its something out of the ordinary. Something like a really bad murderer or some insane heist. But other than that you wouldn’t see crime reporting in regular TV News.
ReplyF Cs
ReplyI agree with Jon. You can’t trust anything that comes from main stream media
ReplyIs no one else going to talk about John tongue-twisting himself with concussion seazon?
ReplyCrime is going down because law enforcement is told not to report it especially in democratic areas the lack of enforcement is malfeasance and taxation without representation is tyranny
ReplyI’m surprised Joe Gamaldi didn’t make an appearance here. He was a former NYPD cop who moved to the Houston Police Department. He was the former head of the main Houston Police Department union and the current national VP for the Fraternal Order of Police. Due to these roles he appeared a lot on local news whenever a HPD officer was injured or killed in the line of duty. But his last couple of times were egg on the face for him. (Disclosure: I’m a deputy with the sheriff’s office but I never liked Gamaldi’s style.)
-There was the Harding Street case where a narcotics team did a no knock raid on a couple. There was a shoot out and the team shot and killed the couple. Gamaldi came out and railed against anti-cop sentiment which I thought was overkill. There was some head scratching when the warrant described the couple having an arsenal and piles of drugs- thus the no knock- but only a few grams of marijuana and a revolver was recovered. When the department couldn’t find the informant who gave the intel they realized the raid was based on false info. Now there is local murder case with the cops, a federal case, and a bunch of the lead cop’s old charges getting vacated- including a petition by the DA for a pardon for George Floyd.
-After this two officers were shot a domestic disturbance call. One of them was a sergeant who died just days away from retirement. Gamaldi railed against the DA’s office for not charging the shooter when officers came out days before for a domestic disturbance call and telling the cops to give back the shooter’s gun. I thought this was weird as the DA’s office here pretty willing to take a DV charge especially when a gun is involved. Then local news found another officer had ran from the scene when the shooting started and got ahold of the police report from the earlier case. Turns out in the earlier case no gun was found on the shooter (although bullets were found on him) and I could tell from the report the officer didn’t take the shooter’s wife’s concerns seriously. That officer was the second one shot.
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ReplyIndians and Nigerians are less than 25% of the world population but more than 80% of online scammers.
A particular community, race or ethnicity may be more susceptible to particular crime. Why can’t liberals get this simple thing
While it’s correlational the haircut of that young-looking police officer is the same as a common one amongst people with Fascistic or neo-Nazi beliefs.
Replywell done
ReplyFYI drug dealers don’t give drugs away for free. Defeats the purpose of being a drug dealer
ReplyMan I was excited about this episode & it was a major disappointment! John & the #LastWeekTonight team do great research & tie it into the show. Missed a huge opportunity on tying the racial disparities between violent crime & white collar crime in reporting, crime rate, prosecution, economic impact, & enforcement spending, etc
ReplyThe media protects the power structures on purpose, none of this is random. They know what they are doing when they only take the fake police side of the story.
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