I agree with you, and you’ve provided some excellent counter examples. I’d like to, as gently as possible, point out that in the curious spirit of this site it might be possible to make your same point without the snark.
Immoral, possibly (certainly IMO), illegal almost certainly not. The police[0] had no (legal) obligation to help him and they have none to help you. It has been established in few cases [1] [2], and will likely be reaffirmed should any suits arise from Uvalde.
Protect and Serve may be a motto, but it is most certainly not the law.
[0] US police, since the article refers to Arizona.
[1] Deshaney vs Winnebago Dept of Social Services, 1989
[2] Castle Rock, CO vs Gonzalez, 2005
It's important to note that there are different contexts of legality operating here. The cases you address deal with the legal obligations owed by the state government (or subdivisions thereof) to private citizens. They do not deal with the legal obligations of police officers as public employees to the employing public entity. The actions of the police officers here may be illegal in the second sense even if the action of the police department through those officers to the citizen involved is not in the first.
In Castle Rock, CO vs Gonzalez, 2005 , one of the supreme court justices is asked "Then what was the point of getting the restraining order" and a reply is heard "to ask the police to do their job". (and nothing more . ie. they don't HAVE to help you if you ask).
So we've established asking the police to do their job is OK. And surely speech is a way to do that. And we know money is speech.
So does that mean it's legal for me to "ask" the police to investigate someone or something by giving them a few million dollars?
Doesn't that also mean I could continually give them millions to investigate something or other to keep them nice and busy so they don't have time or resources to investigate whatever I'm doing on the side?
Money is speech in the context of political donations and advertisements, per Citizens United, in which the Supreme Court that the First Amendment prohibited the US government from "restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations"[0].
Money is not speech in all contexts, nor does it follow that because speech is protected by the First Amendment, all monetary transactions are thus equally protected by an equivalence of money to speech. And even if it were the case, the First Amendment doesn't prohibit all limitations on speech, just limitations by the Federal government (and even then, the Supreme Court allows Federal law to govern speech in limited instances[1], such as regulating the airwaves, food labeling.)
Despite the ruling of Citizens United and its implications, which are narrower than "money is speech" implies in the naive case, laws involving money such as theft, embezzlement, and bribery remain on the books. Paying the police to not investigate crimes would obviously not be legal, if for no other reason than the most obvious: there are already laws against it.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think I need to be to call this one.
> So we've established asking the police to do their job is OK
No, we haven't.
A reply heard during oral argument has no binding precedential force.
(And, even if we had, restraining orders are issued by courts; so we would have established that a court of law asking police do due their work is okay.)
> And we know money is speech.
“Money is speech” in the sense that expending your money to publish speech, not in the sense that giving money to people you are trying to sway is speech. (The political speech cases you rely on for that were about independent expenditures for public propaganda, not bribes to politicians.)
> So does that mean it's legal for me to "ask" the police to investigate someone or something by giving them a few million dollars?
Also Tesla have added recently additional visibility to charging costs. In the mobile app you can select your location and utility rate plan, including manual entry options if you desire, and the app will give you stats. There’s a percentage break-down of Supercharging/at-home/other, your spend, and percentages of at-home usage time relative to the rate plan you selected (or manually entered). I feel fortunate to not have tk commute with an ICE in CA right now.
2nded. I sync mine via iCloud, and have a shared sub-folder with my spouse where we keep family/house related knowledge. Between that and Todoist, 2022 has been my best GTD year yet.
In the early 2000‘s iTunes had some pretty neat features- it supported a handful of non-Apple mp3 players including my Rio and Motorola SLVR. It had a pretty decent encoder and great AppleScript support. One of my first “software projects” was an AppleScript droplet that accepted an dragged audio file, the sermon from the church where the owner ran the sound booth, and output a 128kbps and 64kbps audio file for upload to the church website. I remember getting excited when the color changed, indicating a new version (Green>Purple>Blue IIRC). I curated my music library in it, carefully cleaning and updating id3 tags for LimeWire (and later BitTorrent)-acquired albums. iTunes will always hold a special place in my heart, “Music” with its generic generic icon just can’t bring me the same joy.
Thefuck[0] will attempt to correct errors in your console commands (available via brew, apt, pip and others). You can even enable instant mode if you feel particularly frisky.
Since this doesn’t seem to be answered down thread- URL refers to Unrestricted Line officers, for example officers in the aviation, surface or submarine warfare communities etc. Restricted line officers can be found in the medical, supply, or intelligence communities etc. A third type of officer, and one of my personal favorite abbreviations, is the Direct Input Limited Duty Officer. DILDOs are required to have prior enlisted experience, but not required to have a bachelors degree. Restricted line officers and DILDOs could be given command of a training unit, or medical facility, but would not be given command of a ship or squadron.
Can confirm, we’ve raised hens for about 7 years now and a good feed system (we’ve landed on rainproof containers that allow the chickens to feed at will) and a large water reservoir with drinking cups has allowed us to go on short trips with ease. For anything beyond 4 days, we have someone stop by to check water levels and remove eggs from the hen boxes.
We recently introduced a bantam rooster to our flock- he’s great and he’s really helped with the pecking order issues, but now we have to pull the eggs every 2 days at most (to avoid creating balut[0]).
So... I was raised for a while on a 3 generation compound with quite the animal menagerie, including chickens.
I can imagine a situation where the chickens are entirely confined. Ok, we never did that. For us, the roosters flew to the high branches of the quite large grapefruit trees. There they were mostly safe, and were of course expendable anyway. The hens (sometimes ducks) were locked up nightly in a rather carefully built hen house completely enclosed in a chickewire box. Maybe 20'x10'x10'. You could walk around in it no problem, along with the 10 or so chickens and the roost box.
This was on the edge of the Everglades in S. Florida. We had a variety of varmints. The varmints occasionally breached the defences. Repairs were occasionally required.
Losses happened. That's what I wonder about entirely confined chickens, while granting varmints more or less unlimited time to work on the problem. What's the difference?
And there's that "recently" word lurking in my parent... we'll see what the spillover effects are.
I'm going to add that I've had a box turtle for 27 years, and my last cat lasted 16 years. And we have traveled multiple weeks multiple times a year for decades.
I am all in favor of personal enslavement to an agrarian fantasy. For many years my wife the master gardener has besieged me (the cook) with the fruit of her 5 raised beds. It took us about 4 tries to get through a summer (in AZ at 5500') without having to monitor/water the garden semi daily. We fixed that, with occasional failure. However, you have to concede significant losses if you travel around harvest season: stuff really wants to leap off the plants in a timely manner.
So... all I am saying is that this is not a simple game if it lasts for a significant part of your lifetime, if you want to travel.
I've done similar things. I use 25lb dog feeders for chicken layer pellets (inside), I have an enclosed outdoor run, and I had a nipple waterer with a pretty big reservoir.
And neighbors to check in in the past, although now I have camera systems I can view live, and just ask my neighbor to stop by if something is amiss.
Overall it makes it relatively easy to leave as-needed. For me, one neighbor stop is typically going to mean I can be gone a couple of weeks, with likely no issues.
