Sabrina S.

Japan has police boxes everywhere. They're called koban. Tiny ones on street corners, run by a few officers in shifts. About 14,000 across the country if you count the rural ones too. You go there for stuff like asking directions, turning in a wallet you found, or reporting something. Honestly, a lot of people just stop by to say hi. The officers walk around the neighborhood. They know who lives where. Kids wave at them on the way to school. Singapore copied the whole system in 1983. Their crime rates dropped. Brazil and parts of the US have done the same. Japan didn't make policing better. They made it friendlier. 🇯🇵

We are sending aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. Consistency should require us to send aid to Cuba in the face of US aggression.

"Diplomacy is necessary, grinning is optional and looking like a supplicant is undignified," said former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig about some of Prime Minister Mark Carney's actions and statements while in China. "That's not a good look."

🚨🇬🇧 RESTAURANT OWNER SOLD EVERYTHING TO BUY AK-47S FOR "DEADLIEST UK TERROR ATTACK IN HISTORY" Walid Saadaoui hero-worshipped the Paris attacks mastermind. He wanted his own 130-body-count moment. So the 38-year-old Tunisian sold his Italian restaurant on England's Norfolk coast, sold his house for £169,000, withdrew £88,500 in cash, and paid €5,000 down on four AK-47s, two handguns, and 1,200 rounds. Target: Manchester's Jewish community. Schools, synagogues, gatherings. Quote to undercover cop: "Young, old, women, elderly, the whole lot, killing them all." Christians caught in the crossfire? "A bonus." Saadaoui and Amar Hussein, 52 - former Iraqi soldier with a knife conviction - planned to recruit two more, dress in Jewish clothing, and run an extended shooting spree that also targeted first responders. MI5 caught them through Facebook. Saadaoui posted ISIS content under 10 fake accounts, joined the Manchester Jewish Community group to stalk targets, used birdwatching code ("goldfinches" for guns, "bird seed" for ammo) to negotiate with "Farouk" - an undercover officer. May 8, 2024: caught taking delivery of deactivated weapons at a Lancashire spa hotel. Ran 20 yards before armed officers took him down. The kicker? Same Manchester area where Jihad al Shamie stabbed a worshipper to death outside a synagogue on October 2nd. That attack killed one person. This one would have killed hundreds. Police called it "the largest and most complex covert counter-terrorism investigation ever conducted in the North West." Both convicted Tuesday. Hussein told cops after arrest: "I'm proud, be terrorist here, I'm proud." Source: Sky News