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Then why are they called The Camden County PD? Serious question. Is it just a PR gimmick? A serious rebranding? A shift in structural hierarchy? Just what, exactly? Ratio is important, but not in a vacuum. More of good service available is always good. More of bad service, uh....not so much. It's a holistic problem and the solution will need to be equally holistic. But the focus should be simple - how do best provide a culture of "protect and serve" that works for all citizens equally? Not am I being protected and served, but are we being protected and served, everybody, equitably and appropriately. Do we feel that law enforcement is there, not for me, but for us? And no, I don't get to answer for anybody else. I do, however, get to listen to all answers and respect them as they come in, as we move forward. Some of those answers, including mine, might not be as "objective" as they seem as first submitted, but that's where the process needs to work, and work well. By the time it's over, we should be better than we are now. That's the prize to keep the eye on right now. The only prize. Anything else is just one of those bright shiny objects that are so popular these days. And yeah, suspicion of any and all "process" is both well-advised and well-justified. But oh well about that. We either going to do this thing or we ain't. Bring the cynicism, bring the distrust, bring it all, but be there.

Getting it right is what I hope people have in mind, whatever that needs to look like in any given community. But, uh, doesn't it stand to reason that a county is a larger service area than a city? And doesn't it also stand to reason that a smaller citizen/resident ratio is a good thing if the resources are providing a desirable service in a recipient-approved fashion? You know, the old saw about you can never find a cop when you need one? Sounds like there, you can, and you don't need to worry about it going wrong when you do. I don't know that there is "the" better way to do this, but there certainly are better ways. Get this party started and don't stop because it's "difficult". Stop when it gets done. And yes, we're still going to need the "warrior" types, anybody who says we won't is an idiot with whom I would not encourage engagement. But that shit needs to be totally re-contextualized, with a new paradigm of responsibilities, expectations and accountabilities laid out in no uncertain terms. A loose puppy and a rabid German Shepherd are both in violation of the leash law, but only one requires "exceptional" action.

WELL now!

Go back and look at one of the underlying premises of that Avatar movie - that there was such an abundance of war-trained military-mindset people that private concerns could hire their own police organizations to do their own bidding outside of public purveyance. And of course, these people being good soldiers, they were wired to just follow orders. Seemed like a very real-life concern to me. That was, what a decade or two ago? And we've had how many more troops returned to civilian life since then? And not just private police forces. My worry has long been that we have taken a generation (and now maybe two) and sent them of to learn the ways of the warrior (and not always the honorable ways...) and then bring them home with no comprehensive reorientation process available if/when needed. That's a crime against the people who went to serve in (mostly) good faith. There's a day of reckoning, always. Pray that this is ours, while things are only mildly unrestful. Because if it is not, whenever that day does come, it is not going to be anything like this one. The whole "Prison-Industral complex" is a real thing, and it's foundationally premised on there being a steady supply of product. Ultimately, we don't need to lose capitalism, imo, but we do need to deconstruct it as it now exists and rebuild it with a more "humanitarian" model, where "value" comes with more than just $$$ attached regardless of source, and that which does good for the most all is the most desirable quality and then THAT becomes what drives "value". Currently, all propaganda to the contrary, that is not how it is working here today. I'm a dreamer on that one, to be sure. But in that regard, I remain a committed revolutionary, forever dedicated to the premise that...

We gotta get past looking at the notion/assumption that if "I" am being protected and served , then it automatically follows that "we" are being protected and served.

I think the "concept" on that record worked really well, made it a unique, and uniquely effective program/presentation. I could also advocate for The Legendary Profile, with it's Tim Hardin cover and Rhodes-ian moments, but I don't think it holds together so well as a unified program. Damn good record, though. That's where Blues On Bach excels.

Yeah, I didn't either until one day last decade it started showing up on the internet, never really for sale, just...there. On Moers. Part of Pope's discography. At first glance, I thought, oh they reissued Almost Like Me with a new title, but looking again, it was link...nope. I finally found it blogged somewhere, back when that was the thing to do, and it sure is the same band at what appears to be at or about the same time, and definitely playing at the same level. The record itself might be Shady Grady, but the music is Big City Bright Lights ON!

Blues On Bach

I'm very much in favor of rethinking the very notion of what "law enforcement" looks like in this country. Apparently other people do as well, although they may or may not have a different take on the notion than I do. We'll see. But, you know, the status quo is no longer sustainable by any means other than an increasingly tyrannical imposition of force on a massive section of the citizenry that ain't no longer smelling what The (Plymouth) Rock is cooking.

I'm thinking that 19 hours ago might have been a better time to have listened to the clips? Saved yourself a lot of energy, then, now, and later, when you type up that instructional manual. Please - include pictures, like on those records where they teach you how to do the mombo and the tcha-tcha-tcha. Pictures work for me. I can tell you right now, if there's no pictures, you're wasting your time afaic. Yeah, something like this, please. and a little backindatassup won't hurt either, even if it is one of the Golden Girls.

Because then there would be one less place to post videos of obscure records for people to listen to on their own time.. I don't know what you've been doing in the time it's taken you to post all these responses, but trust me, you could have easily gone to the bathroom or some other quieter place and have listened to them by now, and then answered your own question. They're four 78s, so even if your bowels aren't plugged and your prostate not uber-enlarged, you'd have time.to listen to them on one trip, more than one time if they are.

Or you could listen to the clips when it's convenient for you. Please, I implore you, make this all about yourself, aim the energy where it's most effectively consumed. It's just wasted on me.

This is a really good record.

Curious why that MJQ record?

No.

Does you computer not play the videos? There might be? I don't recall? I mean, I've listened to them all I care to. Don't worry though, I saved some for you!

Those four are all there is, so all there is there.

Hitting? I thought that was all common knowledge, but apparently not.

Content?

++ totally unplagued!

No Art Hoyle here, but this shit swings a lot harder than it either needed to or should have:

2 78s http://yahoo.aleado.com/lot?auctionID=k372453182 Ok, now you know what you gotta do, right?

David Boykin Expanse - Hazel Boykin – Big & Fine