<story><title>San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US</title><url>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/san-jose-police-union-director-smuggle-fentanyl-charge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Black + autistic + in Chicago is a bad, bad combination.&lt;p&gt;Illinois has more problems than Mississippi wrt to racial justice. For a blue state that&amp;#x27;s pretty fucked up, but then it&amp;#x27;s only about 55% blue.&lt;p&gt;I think Chicago is currently winning the competition with NYC for number of convicted mayors as well. Clearly not something anyone should be proud of, but here we are. That whole Eliot Ness&amp;#x2F;Capone kerfuffle was Chicago, not NYC. See also Valentine&amp;#x27;s Day Massacre.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; others have said that members of the Chicago Police Department who allegedly wanted revenge for the killing of a police officer&amp;#x27;s son played a part. - Wikipedia</text></item><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&amp;gt; DWB&lt;p&gt;Driving while black or am I just making up acronyms?</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I had an ex from podunk midwest and one of her town&amp;#x27;s claims to fame was that the sheriff chaired the local DARE chapter until he got arrested for running a meth ring.&lt;p&gt;I guess life is easier when you can arrest your competitors instead of just shooting them, but I don&amp;#x27;t have any idea how nobody narced on him to the feds (or at least their lawyer) for that long.&lt;p&gt;But then police were organized crime before police were police. To this day I don&amp;#x27;t know why the Pinkertons still exist as a corporate subdivision name instead of being fully absorbed to distance from that profound emotional baggage.&lt;p&gt;(Opinions colored by roommates&amp;#x27; future BIL being murdered by cops in broad daylight in Chicago for DWB+autism, then moving to and dealing with Seattle PD&amp;#x27;s corruption&amp;#x2F;brutality problems)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knodi123</author><text>&amp;gt; For a blue state that&amp;#x27;s pretty fucked up, but then it&amp;#x27;s only about 55% blue&lt;p&gt;fun fact, that&amp;#x27;s pretty normal.  That&amp;#x27;s why all this talk about a national divorce is boneheaded-stupid.  The only reason we have red states and blue states is because of FPTP and winner-take-all voting.  But even in a place like california, democrats only outnumber republicans by about 2-1.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US</title><url>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/san-jose-police-union-director-smuggle-fentanyl-charge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Black + autistic + in Chicago is a bad, bad combination.&lt;p&gt;Illinois has more problems than Mississippi wrt to racial justice. For a blue state that&amp;#x27;s pretty fucked up, but then it&amp;#x27;s only about 55% blue.&lt;p&gt;I think Chicago is currently winning the competition with NYC for number of convicted mayors as well. Clearly not something anyone should be proud of, but here we are. That whole Eliot Ness&amp;#x2F;Capone kerfuffle was Chicago, not NYC. See also Valentine&amp;#x27;s Day Massacre.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; others have said that members of the Chicago Police Department who allegedly wanted revenge for the killing of a police officer&amp;#x27;s son played a part. - Wikipedia</text></item><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&amp;gt; DWB&lt;p&gt;Driving while black or am I just making up acronyms?</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I had an ex from podunk midwest and one of her town&amp;#x27;s claims to fame was that the sheriff chaired the local DARE chapter until he got arrested for running a meth ring.&lt;p&gt;I guess life is easier when you can arrest your competitors instead of just shooting them, but I don&amp;#x27;t have any idea how nobody narced on him to the feds (or at least their lawyer) for that long.&lt;p&gt;But then police were organized crime before police were police. To this day I don&amp;#x27;t know why the Pinkertons still exist as a corporate subdivision name instead of being fully absorbed to distance from that profound emotional baggage.&lt;p&gt;(Opinions colored by roommates&amp;#x27; future BIL being murdered by cops in broad daylight in Chicago for DWB+autism, then moving to and dealing with Seattle PD&amp;#x27;s corruption&amp;#x2F;brutality problems)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>What percent blue is Chicago? Bet it&amp;#x27;s not 55%.</text></comment>