• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    So it isn’t working and is just more tax dollars wasted on the security theater? Cool.

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            2 months ago

            Not if there is a federal agent. It is legal here in NM but the feds are constantly seizing pot because it is not legal at a federal level.

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              2 months ago

              It’s gonna be fun when it’s legal in all 50 states at the state level, but still illegal federally.

              Wait, did I say fun? I meant bullshit. It’s going to be bullshit.

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                2 months ago

                Trump DGAF and Kamala made a career outta jailing weed smokers so it’s not likely to change anytime soon.

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                  2 months ago

                  https://news.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-said-she-long-200919997.html

                  “I just think we have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior,” she said. “Actually, this is not a new position for me. I have felt for a long time we need to legalize it, so that’s where I am on that.”

                  As San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011, Harris oversaw over 1,900 convictions for cannabis violations, the San Jose Mercury News reported in 2019. Still, only a small number of those people ended up in prison.

                  https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/analysis-tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris/

                  Harris “put over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana violations”

                  As attorney general, Kamala Harris would not have personally prosecuted drug cases. Local district attorneys would generally prosecute such cases so to say Harris “put … people in jail” as state attorney general is not accurate.

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                    2 months ago

                    Talk is cheap. As attorney general she also held the power to decide not to prosecute those people.

                    If she did anything to prevent this, why wouldn’t she just come out and say it? Not saying anything at all about it other than that she’s proud of it is the most damning evidence we can have.

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              2 months ago

              That is up to the state’s attorney general whether to go after drug offense or not

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        2 months ago

        They wanted a subway gun crime deterrent, they just found it was much easier to build a subway deterrent.

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      Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”

      It’s fraud. The company knows it’s unreliable and the investors know it’s unreliable, I wonder why NYC is still going to expand the trial run? 🤔

      [Mayor] Adams has touted the Massachusetts-based company since taking office in 2022.

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        2 months ago

        To be fair, he’s also a former cop. He’s also under indictment for fraud so take that for what it’s worth

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      No, no. We just need to keep using it! It just needs a bigger sample. Surely, we’ll find a weapon, eventually!

      /s

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      2 months ago

      Not exactly, no. From other comments, it also have an incredibly high false positive rate, so it’s negative security.