Lee "Scratch" Peri-Peri
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Lee "Scratch" Peri-Peri
@Plugspark
Music, media, politics, food, poker, gym, biking, the Buffalo Bills. Broadcast/IT engineer
DC Sumali Haziran 2009
1.6K Sinusundan97 Mga Tagasunod
@Plugspark @ajlamesa lol Who told you that? And how many bridges did they manage to sell you?
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It's a shame that people are attacking Randy Clarke over this post. Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to DC and they're not going away -- Clarke has to make the best of the situation. And, obviously, having them in metro stations is a deterrent to both crime and terrorism.
Randy Clarke@wmataGM
Late night check in & appreciate how our @wmata team & @DCGuard1802 have built a positive relationship during their shifts. Our station manager was so happy to get a challenge coin from General Blanchard who was out personally checking in on his team. People supporting people.
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@noisycontrarian @digging4fire @ajlamesa My point was that the preponderance of evidence shows that a change in the number of police active in a community doesn't equate to a statistically significant change in crime rate. Sorry if I missed the word "change" in there to make that clear that I didn't mean zero literally
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@digging4fire @Plugspark @ajlamesa Well if you do not think police officers deter crime, let's abolish the police. Of course, you might already think that in which case I am debating with a moron.
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@LesterJMilton @ajlamesa Not a fan of that former NYPD officer - he believes in flogging instead of prison(!). I simply think the state shouldn't engage in unconstitutional physical violence against its subjects, and that his "best study" as proof of number of police impacting crime significantly is poor
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@Plugspark @ajlamesa I appreciate the reasonable response and the links. The data, it seems, is somewhat mixed, though less so in DC? I go back-and-forth depending on what I read, so I should probably try to resist the impulse to have a very strong opinion on it!
petermoskos.com/police-researc…
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@PeterMoskos If the number of police is correlated to crime in a statistically significant way, why do we see a very significant drop in crime rate in DC over the last 3 years (-20%+ YoY) while MPD officer numbers dropped by over 10% during the same period?
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I always feel I'm being gaslit when people tell me "Nobody believes police don't affect crime. You're attacking a strawman. Why are you [meaning: "me"] so hung up on that?"
It's like a whole friggin' subfield of criminology! And these people simply do not stop.
Lee "Scratch" Peri-Peri@Plugspark
@ajlamesa it's a shame that people excuse the normalization of this and don't know a single thing about the crime rate in DC and how the number of police or national guard has no actual affect on the crime rate
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@PeterMoskos I don't have access to this paper but I would posit that this study is not likely a "best study" of # of police vs. crime rate as post 9/11 terror warnings likely reduced the number of people going out and therefore the crime rate would reduce. Did they control for this?
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There is some irony is that one of the best studies of even simple police presence deterring crime is from... DC. petermoskos.com/police-researc…
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@PeterMoskos I simply disagree with the position that the specific number of police is statistically significantly linked to the crime rate, based on evidence: scholarworks.alaska.edu/bitstream/hand…
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
cjcj.org/reports-public…
stripes.com/theaters/us/20…
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@LesterJMilton @ajlamesa I simply disagree, based on evidence: scholarworks.alaska.edu/bitstream/hand…
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
cjcj.org/reports-public…
stripes.com/theaters/us/20…
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@Plugspark @ajlamesa Just as one doesn't need to absolve pharmaceutical companies of their avarice to accept that vaccines are safe & effective, one doesn't have to have a Thin Blue Line flag hanging on their porch to accept that the data is pretty clear on the effects of more police on crime.
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@DisposablEnsign I've been around a long time, I have never before seen someone drink water like this. Considering he showed up boozie at the HOC with bags of McD burgers after a fundraiser, it's not a far stretch to be suspicious.
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My brother was an alcoholic. This could be my brother. I recognize the signs, unsteady hand, the long sip, smacking the lips, the drooling down the chin and the sloppy side wipe.
Pierre Poilievre has a problem. 🍹🧃🍺🍷
🇨🇦 Dawg 🇨🇦@Pickerelpete01
Just watch him take that drink. That has vodka, gin, or even white rum in it 100%. You know, when you know!
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@TLogic13 @MrB1080 @PenguinSix False. Adult crimes are majority. Schwalb was sworn in in 2023 had 73%, 72%, and 84% prosecution rates.
On bail, evidence shows that bail reform has very little impact on crime. DC residents don't want/have room for a Rikers, and can't fund it, either. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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@Plugspark @MrB1080 @PenguinSix Her powers are limited. You are right about the adult crimes, but they are almost nonexistent in D.C. now. The crimes we see now mostly involve juveniles. Shapiro can't do anything about juveniles.
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A 12 and 13 year old were shot in NE. One pronounced dead on the scene other transported to hospital. Shooters at large. 6th homicide in 5 days in DC.
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@TLogic13 @MrB1080 @PenguinSix Trump/fed. appointee Jeanine Pirro is the US attorney AND local DC DA for all serious crimes in DC, not the council.
The locally-elected AG office (Brian Schwalb) doesn’t handle serious crimes and prosecutes 93% of cases his office gets that aren’t traffic or civil litigation.
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@MrB1080 @PenguinSix I don't know how Trump could have fixed the no-bail policies and the liberal D.C. Council that releases every violent criminal in DC.
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The United States should lead the nuclear energy renaissance, not watch it from the sidelines.
My Nuclear Energy Innovation and Deployment Act with @SenMcCormickPA will help power America’s future.
Daily Caller@DailyCaller
EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lee Takes On 'Valley Of Death' Plaguing Key Energy Sector: 'Our competitors are not waiting' dlvr.it/TS2GwS
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@FeverPotomac @kevsaucebro How dumb are you? People can and do utilize all methods of transportation. I live in DC and own a car, but advocate primarily for (and primarily use) public transit/bike/walk at the expense of car-brained policy. But I also have to use a car to get to work
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@kevsaucebro You are in a car. Please complain to Senator Kaine or Rep. Beyer about the traffic on 395. Stop attacking our General Manager.
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Virginians and Marylanders have a right under the Constitution of the United States to object to military patrols on a public transit system they pay for several times over
Potomac Fever@FeverPotomac
@kevsaucebro @kevinamezaga Your profile picture is you in a car in Arlington. Please leave this to DC residents who actually use WMATA.
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@FeverPotomac @kevsaucebro @kevinamezaga Absolute moron-tier reply. It’s the Washington Metro AREA Transit Authority because all 3 jurisdictions control and fund it collaboratively
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@kevsaucebro @kevinamezaga Your profile picture is you in a car in Arlington. Please leave this to DC residents who actually use WMATA.
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this tweet should tell you everything about who Randy Clarke thinks his constituency is
Randy Clarke@wmataGM
Late night check in & appreciate how our @wmata team & @DCGuard1802 have built a positive relationship during their shifts. Our station manager was so happy to get a challenge coin from General Blanchard who was out personally checking in on his team. People supporting people.
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@amazonlabor Lol based in Staten Island. Nothing corrupt there and they’re totally huge friends of labor there
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Amazon prevents us from calling 911 when someone is having a medical emergency so that the company’s internal first-aid department “AmCare” can cover it up and it’s costing workers their lives.
Sign our petition to demand accountability:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-a…
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers in the facility were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to The Western Edge. Link: thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-….
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@frankagustus @FalconryFinance Lol what is this triggered comment
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@Plugspark @FalconryFinance Is that all you think about? Sad loser lol.
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For the people that don’t know this is a competition. somebody at the other end of the parking lot with a receiver can hear over the two that are keyed down their mics whoever the other guy can hear and wins the competition. I called a key down competition. The whole back half of the vehicle is filled with a CB radio Equipment amplifying the wattage called linears. If you were to see underneath the engine, some of these guys have four or five maybe even six alternators and some engines range up to five 750 hp engines sometimes even with nitrous to peak the massive wattage coming out of the antenna.
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@Charlie_Reports Wagering most are LE. But high level administration and technical jobs will actually require that kind of number for highly competent and highly-skilled people.
You’re competing for talent with many more affluent/larger areas, nothing you can really do about it.
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Forty employees of Erie County made over $200,000 last year, according to some initial research I have been doing.
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Seems like a lot. What do you think?
Is this something you would like to know more about?
Just trying to see what people are interested in.
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@garglontopofme @BasilJ60776 @Zoya_ki_batein it's ok to be gay man, you don't need to hate yourself for it
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@BasilJ60776 @Zoya_ki_batein I’m trying to describe how I feel when I look at these two bartenders. Bc it’s a phenotype at the intersection of performative maleness and a certain globalist feng shui that I absolutely detest. But detest isn’t even the right word. It’s like a violent disgust I feel for it.
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@cljack At the wrong bars, maybe. Never heard this at Snappy's, Solly's, Dew Drop, Showtime, Jackie Lee's, etc.
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This is actually how bars work in DC
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
*at the bar, sees a beautiful looking girl* “Hey, thoughts on the Hungarian elections?”
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@John_Seravalli1 @BMeiselas keep posting through it, you're doing great
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You’re a creepy hack, probably with a weird furry fetish you hide. Your idea of a “crash out” looks like a PR person defending a company and employee to normal people.
You chose to spend your day attacking someone who saved $11,000 in taxes because your life is so meaningless and inconsequential it’s the best you could do. 🤷🏻♂️
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The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out
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