(2013/10/18) Not corrupted absolutely but getting there (Police State)
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🗓️ 18 October 2013
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Summary
Edition #765
Not corrupted absolutely but getting there
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Court OK's Barring High IQs for Cops - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 07-14-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Get Smart (Main Theme) - Knightsbridge
Ch. 4: Act 2: Judge Sides With Pregnant Couple Carelessly Shot By Cops - Young Turks - Air Date: 08-17-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Magnum P.I. (Main Theme) - Knightsbridge
Ch. 6: Act 3: Sloppy laws hurting domestic violence victims - Citizen Radio - Air Date 5-3-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Columbo - All Stars Orchestra
Ch. 8: Act 4: Scalia Surprises - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 6-4-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Law and Order - The International TV Orchestra
Ch. 10: Act 5: Police Recording Everything Lowered Complaints by 88% - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 07-26-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hill Street Blues (Main Theme) - Knightsbridge
Ch. 12: Act 6: Diabetic Killed By Police After 911 Call For Help - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-09-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Hawaii 5-0 (1968 TV Series Theme) - Hawaii 5.0
Ch. 14: Act 7: Cop gives no excuses for Record # of complaints… 0 - CBS News - Air Date: 08-26-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: CHiPs - TV Classic
Ch. 16: Act 8: How Do We Roll Back the Militarization of Our Police - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-31-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Dragnet (Main Theme) - Knightsbridge
Ch. 18: Act 9: National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 19: Song 9: Andy Griffith Show (Main Theme) - Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra
Ch. 20: Act 10: When did our Country Become Dirty Harry? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-05-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Dirty Harry - The City of Prague Philharmonic
Ch. 22: Act 11: Cops Using "Stun-Cuffs" in Missouri - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-05-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Clearing up some points on science and technology - Nick from California
Ch. 24: Clarifying comments were not pro-GMO - Nick from California
Ch. 25: Homosexuality: Natural or choice? Who cares? - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 26: Food industry is not the devil - Melissa from New York
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 27: Final comments on how to be skeptical without being a dick about it
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/15/1247424/--F-K-That-No-More-Killing-Continuing-the-Fight-Against-Police-Violence#
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/justice/police-shootings/
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/police-brutality/
http://www.popularresistance.org/video-acronym-tv-weekly-resistance-report-008/
http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/10/16/how-chicago-now-deals-with-police-torture/
http://youtu.be/8mIZszPyK78 h/t Lee Camp, http://leecamp.net
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:06.1 | visit the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfA Left |
| 0:10.7 | Podcast with Cups today from the David Pakman show, The Young Turks, Citizen Radio, |
| 0:14.8 | The Progressive Magazine, CBS News, The Majority Report, and the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:20.0 | And a quick question that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then how much do you |
| 0:25.0 | think 80,000 volts of power might corrupt? |
| 0:30.0 | A court has okayed barring police officers with high IQs. I find this very interesting. |
| 0:37.7 | There's a man who wanted to become a police officer. And he scored too high on the intelligence |
| 0:43.6 | test. And then he sued because he was not hired because his IQ was too high. And he has |
| 0:49.4 | actually lost the appeal in that lawsuit. The second US District Court of Appeals in New |
| 0:54.2 | York ruled, no, no, no, it's okay for that other court that said it was okay not to |
| 1:00.0 | hire you because the standards were the same for everyone who took the test. You were |
| 1:05.1 | not particularly singled out for any reason. You just were outside of the requirements |
| 1:10.9 | of the test. Now, if the test required him to be white, then I think we might have a |
| 1:15.6 | little bit of a different story, but smart people aren't considered a protected class. |
| 1:20.3 | So we're talking about a 49 year old college graduate, Robert Jordan. He took the exam |
| 1:27.0 | and he scored a 33. So that's equivalent to an IQ of 125. And New London Connecticut |
| 1:33.2 | police only interview candidates who score between 20 and 27. So he was way above the maximum |
| 1:39.6 | range. And the theory for this, it's actually a theory that in and of itself is probably |
| 1:44.8 | worthy of some debate. The theory is, if you have too high of an IQ, if you score too |
| 1:49.0 | well on this test, you're more likely to leave police work because you get bored and you |
| 1:54.4 | want to go do something else after going through costly training, training that's costly |
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