Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. ​ @WillCrump-e5x Also don't deny recruitment to applicants because their IQ is too high. I keep hearing that's a recruiting guideline.
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  2.  @jddrafts  "One hundred percent absolutely certain" isn't good enough. For safety's sake, a not guilty vote is the only prudent course - or else just failing to report for jury duty.
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  3. I haven't followed car stuff in a long time but as a teen in the early 60s I was an avid reader of motor magazines about F1 and sports cars (mostly cars I was never going to be able to afford). Back then, Ferraris built for racing were notorious for weak brakes. Mr Enzo Ferrari addressed the issue thusly: "Racing cars should go, not stop."
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  4.  malus1426  He paid for the food, yes. Whether or not he paid for the service ($3K tip vs $zero tip) depends on the lawsuit's outcome.
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  5. ​ @J4k7193R  Good joke...if that's how you meant it. I'm pretty sure you don't really think the county called her because they'd been experiencing power outages ever since her business started up.
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  6. In idle moments I sometimes make up names just for fun. For instance there's Andy Tollroad, an anagram of my actual name and also a good stage name for a country- music singer imo. My favorite invented name so far is Anton Wrzstzschk. It's less crazy than it might seem: I've known people with the surname Wrzsinski and I've met at least one person named Matzschk, so I just mashed the two together. (I'm in Texas, where there are a lot of towns that were founded by Czech or Polish settlers.)
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  7. If you drive in Detroit it might behoove you to be extra careful. You could wind up before a judge who's been reassigned to a lower court due to a deep character flaw and he might be taking it out on the defendants coming before him.
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  8. "If they are at all smart?" If they were at all smart they'd know that blatant unlawful conduct might make them famous where they'd rather not be noticed, and this ruling wouldn't have happened.
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  9. @Harvey Wallbanger "What was your 'reasonable suspicion?'" "The fact he was carrying a large sum of cash." Somebody did a good job of empaneling jurors of the type that assumes if a cop says it it must be correct.
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  10. ​ @XeviousHound  I hope you're right but I can easily imagine him being reassigned and then ignored until he eventually crosses enough lines to come to the boss's attention again. Meanwhile a lot of people could pay heavy fines, do jail time or lose their licenses because of one judge's character defect.
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  11. "Victims were harmed and the wrongdoer must be punished!" "We don't know who the wrongdoer is." "Then SOMEBODY must be punished!"
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  12.  @MegaGeorge1948  He knows within reason that it isn't true. No one is as stupid as he's pretending to be. He's just trolling.
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  13.  @davemarshall9665  I'd rather it never happened in the first place. The cop should have gotten the 18-24 months of real training that's standard in other countries - or not even recruited, which he probably wouldn't have been in those other countries.
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  14.  @gregebrown  Good point. If a prosecutor puts innocent people in prison, then even if the prosecutor technically works for the citizenry I don't see how we the citizens "won" anything.
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  15.  @ronblack7870  As I recall it really did help. It was catchy and people quoted it while properly disposing of trash.
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  16. That's it? After getting robbed, coerced into signing a crooked document and forced to go through a trial and probably an appeal and another trial he just gets his money back? What about damages? What about making the state hurt for its racketeering? And don't hand me that crap about how corrupt government shouldn't pay for its wrongdoing because it's the taxpayers who pay. We the people ARE responsible for the nasty activities of the crooks we elect. It's on us to (1) fking VOTE and (2) not vote stupid.
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  17. ​ @SIXPACFISH 😂lol
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  18.  @UncleKennysPlace  I referenced your reply to the post by @billythekid9061 who argued juries shouldn't be punished for their verdicts. I agree with that post and your current reply to me, both of which suggest it's the prosecutor not the jury that's in a position to bring about wrongful imprisonment. The jury shouldn't be punished imo. Nevertheless I don't believe the wrongfully imprisoned should be left in lockup after actual innocence is established. EDIT: Retribution should apply to prosecutors and judges who suppress exculpatory evidence.
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  19.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  "Prosecutor yes..." I agree. "Jury no..." Agree. "Judge maybe." Yes, if the judge suppresses evidence of innocence or forbids defense to use specific arguments that would help to win an acquittal.
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  20. ​ @Vagabond_Etranger  I don't see why they're allowed body cameras they even CAN turn off or mute.
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  21. Yep, that's what I wanted to post.
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  22. ​ @Ryarios  I agree in spirit but I imagine you're indulging in a little hyperbole, I mean there's just not enough blood on the highway. Still, the amount of money involved sure smells like felony, yes?
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  23. ​​ @interstellarsurfer bout a dozen times a day I see somebody saying "based" in a comment or reply, in a context where I'm sure they meant "biased." Sometimes I blame autocorrect but it happens so much I'm starting to think they don't know the difference between the two words, and there's a world of difference. "Based" implies the person had a good solid basis for what they said and "biased" implies they didn't. EDIT: I'm not saying I disagree with @billythekid9061, I'm only responding as a concerned grammar nazi.
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  24.  @darksu6947  Do you mean based but not based or based, or based and based but not based?😀
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  25.  @brentfarvors192  I knew a woman who recycles ALL of her compostable garbage. She has a huge compost heap in her backyard and has created enough soil to re-landscape that entire large yard. It doesn't stink and no one has complained.
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  26.  @brentfarvors192  Home composting is practiced by millions of Americans and composting isn't the same as operating a city dump. As for the woman I referenced, her composting operation hasn't provoked any complaints about smells and it isn't because her neighbors are tolerant; for example they complained that her shed was too close to the fence to be code-compliant. The shed isn't part of the composting project and odors weren't mentioned in the complaint. If they could cite smells and make it plausible they wouldn't hesitate to do so.
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  27.  @davidoltmans2725  I agree about screening out the unfit cops. Civilization already does that - not only is recruitment more stringent but so are the police academies. But that's how civilization does things, and the US has openly held civilization in contempt for at least 40 years.
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  28.  @tfrank328  What are the restrictions?
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  29.  @PDGX  Of course. US courts base decisions on foreign law all the time, right?
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  30. Can't wait to see the follow-up. What the heck was his motive? I'm fantasizing all sorts of explanations, some of them pretty dark like he lost a loved one in a pool drowning and he's angry with pool owners who don't have a lifeguard on duty at all times...
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  31.  @Reno_Slim  Hmmm, now that I think about it I'm glad they're not because I'd probably be fine with three or four laborers on the board. Maybe it would be a good thing if all such bodies were prohibited from being top-heavy with upper-income members.
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  32.  @alexmonroe7092  Goes to show that in America we have TWO right-wing parties.
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  33. So if a tree falls in the forest and you hear it fall, your interpretation of what you heard doesn't count; therefore the tree didn't fall.
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  34. Typical right-wing justice: Because the crime was brutal, the state's right to leave the REAL perpetrator at large must not be infringed; the important thing is we've got somebody on death row and must get on with the execution.
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  35. It ought to be a felony-level offense when any public official blatantly and brazenly flouts the law while flaunting their authority. I'm sure the legal whiz kids who hang out in these threads can cite all sorts of technical arguments against that but I'm just speaking from the POV of right & wrong not legal erudition.
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  36.  @ytzpilot  A master's degree in 3 years - I'm guessing that breaks down to 2 years undergrad and 1 year postgraduate, yes? Anyway I've always been sure the European police are superior to ours, especially in Scandinavia.
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  37.  @JRRob3wn  Ikr? Sigh...
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  38.  @davemarshall9665  I agree but I thought I made it clear I was talking about training BEFORE the officer is allowed on active duty. Training AFTER the fact is silly. My point was if the training is barely long enough to teach the cadet to dominate a suspect and doesn't bother to address acceptable/unacceptable conduct, then recruits are being put on the street before they've got any business being out there. If they got actual training and weren't let out of the academy before they prove they get it, they'd be qualified. Then if they screwed up of course they should face the same consequences (or more severe consequences) as the rest of us. The current training is a joke and for some reason the commenters in this thread passionately want to KEEP it that way and only focus on punishing cops after that approach backfires. It's like they want people to keep getting hurt and killed so there'll always be something to be incensed about.
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  39.  @davemarshall9665  Thanks Dave, it's refreshing to run into a gentleman in a comment stream.
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  40. ​ @veramae4098  They're careful about not antagonizing people in the privileged classes and they're schooled in skills learned through generations of practice avoiding it. Exceptions are rare.
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  41. ​ @xxbatman69xx98  @andywomack3414 I've been intrigued with that idea since even before the turn of the century: After all, someone said if you actually WANT to be the president you're unqualified. But I do believe in the right of the people to self-determination via the ballot, so i want a combination of the two. That is, if you're selected you have to run whether you want to or not but the draftee who's actually going to serve should still be chosen by the will of the electorate.
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  42.  @pilozm  I agree prosecutors are unjustly shielded from consequences which is why I used the qualifier "should" since I'm aware nothing like that happens in real life. Also I only advocated eye-for-an-eye consequences for "a willful wrongful conviction" not for an honest mistake.
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  43. ​ @Iansco1  So, no brutality issue or wrongful death? Just living outside the department's jurisdiction? Did abuse-of-power cases even get sent to him?
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  44. Aha! So one of the purposes of land trusts is to keep the owner anonymous. That means the owner intends from the get-go to do nasty things to regular people, incidental to making a profit by flipping the property. I suppose Steve's comments about "adverse possession" mean squatters' rights can't be invoked - presumably because that would be too fair.
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  45.  @tvc184  I'm glad you're teaching police recruits to do the right thing and I thank you for the work you do. I knew you would agree and I wasn't arguing, just amplifying. We need more officers like you.
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  46.  @joetrey215  Yep, I remember it well now that you reminded me. Thanks!
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  47. 1876, huh? As a Texan and the son/grandson of Texans I'm very sure my state has deemed itself above the US Constitution a lot longer than that.
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  48.  @yveslaurier950  That would suggest that there's no such thing as an American website unless it's unaccessible from any other country. That's a question that's out of my depth. But as to a US court rendering such a decision, Steve indicates at 5:03 that it's not routine. However I can easily visualize a scenario where a NZ court rules that Glassdoor can either comply with the subpoena or be permanently blocked in that country.
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  49. ​​ @RicardoSantos-oz3uj  How I wish the legal profession viewed it that way. I don't agree about adultery though, I don't even think most estranged spouses care if their absent partner lives with someone else.
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  50.  @trtrhr  Damn, you're right; I forgot the nice men from the State brought over these little Happy Pills... I feel much better now and everything is ok. I bet that judge forgot his too, I'm sure they'll remind him next time.
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