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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by anonAndOn on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:54PM (#23786216)
In at least one major school district, the beginning the year shuffle for matching the unfilled classrooms with the unwanted staffing is called the "Dance of the Lemons". Those that don't get an assignment are still clocking in every day at HQ & assigned useless tasks like creating lesson plans (that nobody will ever use).

Wouldn't that be great if violent cops were assigned to create Public Safety materials all day that went straight into the bin? They can't be fired so their job is to do something completely worthless until they quit.

Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by twic on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:02PM (#23786280)
Years ago, the police wronged me, and i raised a successful complaint. I got an apologetic phone call from an officer who, i got the impression, had the job of sitting in a police station making apologetic phone calls. He spent about forty seconds apologising, then went on an umprompted several-minute rant about how the police knew who all the criminals were, and if the government would just give them guns (this was in the UK), they could end crime tomorrow. I think it's simply connecting the dots to assume he was stuck on phone duty because he was a colossal liability to have walking around in public.
Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by collyw on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:41AM (#23788827)
BLM protests showed the police to be quite useless in the UK.