I applaud FedEx for not allowing cellphones at work.
Every time I go to any store whether a gas station, grocery store or a department store, you have to wait for the clerk or cashier to put their phone down before they can wait on you.
As fast paced as a FedEx warehouse can be, just think of all the injuries they are preventing.
David Groves
Gun owners need to be part of the solution
In his April 17 article, Mass shooting won t alter gun culture, James Briggs referenced a Bureau of Justice Statistics report that over half of incarcerated individuals who used guns in their crimes stole them. He went on to say that 43% purchased them on the black market (also, I believe, most likely stolen). Briggs then makes the point that the stolen and illegally purchased guns had to come from somewhere; that being legitimate owners. He then offers the following opinion: The only way to suppress that market is to take steps that are political nonstarters in the U.S.: Make private gun owne
States limits on police video access thwart grieving North Carolina family
By Julia Harte and Alexandra Ulmer
Reuters
(Reuters) - A North Carolina law that restricts the release of recordings from police cameras is complicating efforts by relatives of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by sheriff s deputies last week, to view the footage capturing his shooting death.
The family s struggle reflects a hurdle faced in many U.S. states, where a thicket of complex laws limits public access to body-camera footage that can prove crucial in prosecutions of officers involved in such shootings.
U.S. law enforcement agencies are under mounting pressure to use body-worn cameras following high-profile police killings, including the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin. Prosecutors used Chauvin s body-camera footage - as well as video shot by a bystander - to help convince a jury to convict the former officer on April 20.
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When Dawanna Witt teaches her juvenile justice class at Inver Hills Community College, the high-ranking Hennepin County Sheriff s Office administrator occasionally tells stories about a little girl. Sometimes Witt is explicit about the details of the little girl s life. Other times, she s more vague, because the details can be harrowing and difficult to stomach.
The little girl s family life was scarred by alcoholism and drug addiction.
The little girl remembers police officers being called to her home and telling her and her siblings they would grow up to become crackheads like others in their family.
The little girl had male family members who were sexual predators, and in response, she didn t take care of her hygiene. Being smelly and dirty, the little girl figured, would make her less of a target, even if it also meant she was bullied in school.
Proponents of video recording by police, including with body-worn cameras that film a civilian s interaction with officers, say it s a way to hold law enforcement accountable.
But 13 months after Adam s arrest, no one has been charged and the investigation is still open.
The video doesn t necessarily reveal that more surveillance, more visibility, is a good thing, said Kevin Walby, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg who has studied the usefulness of police body cameras.
RCMP dashcam footage of the March 2020 arrest of Adam shows an arriving officer jump-tackling the chief to the ground without warning, punching him in the head and putting him in a chokehold.(Court exhibit)
Proponents of video recording by police, including with body-worn cameras that film a civilian s interaction with officers, say it s a way to hold law enforcement accountable.
But 13 months after Adam s arrest, no one has been charged and the investigation is still open.
The video doesn t necessarily reveal that more surveillance, more visibility, is a good thing, said Kevin Walby, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg who has studied the usefulness of police body cameras.
RCMP dashcam footage of the March 2020 arrest of Adam shows an arriving officer jump-tackling the chief to the ground without warning, punching him in the head and putting him in a chokehold.(Court exhibit)