Comments on: Happy Labor Day. Who’s Not Doing Their Job? https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:15:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/#comment-464213 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 04:36:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22857#comment-464213

The press is now grading Donald Trump on a curve, treating his presidency in such a way that it legitimizes racism and white supremacy.

Presidency?! Yikes! Trump’s not there yet – & hopefully never will be but his candidacy if that’s the right word, yeah, definitely agree with you there.

]]> By: Happy Labor Day. Who’s Not Doing Their Job? – Patrick Willard's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/#comment-464212 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:00:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22857#comment-464212 […] Laborers generally do their jobs, because if they don’t they get fired. But there are entire professions where people are not doing their jobs and the rest of us suffer. Jacob Wetterling was abducted and murdered two and a half decades ago. The guy who did it was known to the cops then, and he… Source: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/ […]

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/#comment-464211 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:45:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22857#comment-464211 It is absolutely routine for the police to ignore perfectly good tracking information on stolen devices.

Why? WHY??????

]]> By: Desertphile https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/#comment-464210 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:42:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22857#comment-464210 There is not enough funding for police officers in the USA to do their job. Police detectives resent being told where criminals are, where the evidence is, etc., by non-police. Take for example the woman who had her Kindle Readers stolen, and she used Amazon.com’s tracking mechanism to locate the thief, the thief’s house address and name: the victim gave up trying to get any police officer to visit the thief and recover the stolen items.

Also recall how the police in Texas treated the murders of the O’hairs. They knew the murderer name, where (eventually) he lived, and where he hid the bodies— and they had no interest at all in the crimes.

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