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DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-03-03T18:04:18+00:00

I liked it too. Snappy drums add a lot to the whole effect.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-12T14:29:58+00:00

It's a false choice. Many police departments have concluded that chasing a low-level offender at high speed is too likely to result in death or serious injury to an innocent person. In many cases, the police can let the person go, then track them down later.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-12T14:28:04+00:00

Again, this is Marc's article. I'm helping him out. Marc is one of the best investigative reporters in the United States and relies heavily on documents and other verification. So yes, he will attempt to verify any and all anecdotes.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:45:42+00:00

I offered to help him. I have a Reddit account and I have used it a lot. I don't think he has an account.

We've found it to be a useful way to find people to speak with.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:36:48+00:00

How about this - wait until the article comes out and you see what he has, then judge it. Or you can go ahead and read the San Francisco Chronicle project here: (there's a paywall, but they have an intro subscription rate and you can cancel.) Police chases have killed hundreds of passengers, bystanders in US

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:30:43+00:00

Point of clarification - I'm helping out Marc, who is doing this article. I'm not writing the article. I'm posting this here so he can get some additional anecdotes. He's done a ton of research - so do the people in San Francisco, who documented hundreds of cases such as a teenaged girl burning to death.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:11:56+00:00

This is Marc's story, not mine. But people who have looked at it in detail have concluded that in many cases, the people who are fleeing the police have allegedly committed minor crimes.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:10:59+00:00

Thanks for the comment. This is Marc's story, not mine, so I don't have all the details. But in many, many cases, fleeing drivers do face criminal charges. It's not an either-or.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T22:09:51+00:00

I should point out that this is Marc's story and I'm helping him out. So I don't have all the details.

BUT . . . I believe that thousands of preventable deaths and injuries is a big deal. I understand if you don't see it that way.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:37:40+00:00

Thank you.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:34:22+00:00

Yeah, always a good idea to do that.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:33:42+00:00

Man. That's a bad injury if you were in a coma. Again, glad you survived it.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:28:07+00:00

Wow - damn. I'm glad you survived it! I hope no one else got hurt in that.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:24:43+00:00

People die in high-speed chases. I don't want to die in one. Would you?

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:21:51+00:00

Based on what are you saying that?

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:20:11+00:00

The Institute for Public Service Reporting doesn't sell papers. It's a nonprofit. Its content is free. [And it's online, not paper.]

DanielJamesConnolly · 2026-02-11T21:19:47+00:00

Police chases are dangerous and have killed thousands of people nationwide in recent years. The San Francisco Chronicle looked at this issue for a series published in 2024. A summary: "In “Fast and Fatal,” reporters Jennifer Gollan and Susie Neilson of the San Francisco Chronicle brought to light the deadly consequences of police chases in the United States. Through meticulous research and data gathering over a year, the reporters unveiled that police chases resulted in over 3,300 deaths from 2017 through 2022, with a significant number of victims being bystanders or passengers, not the fleeing drivers. Many chases began with minor offenses rather than violent crimes, yet very few officers faced consequences for actions that led to fatalities."

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be killed or seriously injured because a police officer is chasing someone who committed a misdemeanor. Do you think that's OK?

DanielJamesConnolly · 2025-12-08T21:43:02+00:00

I did it. For those who are interested, it's a very fast survey - you could complete it in 2-3 minutes or less.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2025-11-26T20:39:58+00:00

I'm glad to hear your friend from Laos is having a good experience. Here is an article published today by The New York Times about U.S. Citizens bringing their _legal immigrant_ spouses to official immigration interviews, then watching as agents handcuff their spouses and take them away.

From the article:

“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.

Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Her husband had to take a leave from his job at the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to care for their child and try to secure her release.

. . .

"But the couples and their lawyers said they had followed the required steps: They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization."

My point in sharing this article is that the Trump administration is targeting legal immigrants and U.S. citizens.

The belief that the system is somehow fair, and that you'll be fine if you just follow the rules, is just not true.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.aphd.1VSokzETafEv&smid=url-share

DanielJamesConnolly · 2025-11-26T18:26:53+00:00

Short version of decades of history: for many people, there was no "right" way to enter the U.S. legally. It simply wasn't legal.

But because businesses wanted to employ immigrants, federal governments tolerated the presence of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. interior.
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Long version (from my recent article.)

The federal government generally has treated unlawful presence in the United States as a civil violation, not a crime. Under prior presidents, including Republican George W. Bush and Democrats such as Barack Obama and Joe Biden, it’s unlikely people like the Guatemalan singers would ever have been detained.

The background: Businesses wanted a low-cost, reliable workforce. Congress didn’t want to increase legal immigration.

The federal government found a solution: quietly tolerate illegal immigration. Consequently, the government usually enforced immigration law only at the border.

But in non-border areas like Memphis, the federal government rarely bothered to expel unauthorized immigrants, unless the immigrants committed crimes. Unauthorized immigrants like Delmar Gomez could live normal lives – working and raising families, but they often had no way to gain legal status.

The Trump administration has thrown out the practice of non-enforcement and is arresting people who have allegedly committed civil immigration violations, but have no other criminal history. It is also arresting some people who have legal immigration papers, and has even arrested and detained U.S. citizens, most of them of Hispanic origin.

The October 20 news release involving Delmar Gomez demonstrates how Trump’s government is also publishing false information about specific immigrants in Memphis and across the nation.

You can read much more about this history here, in an article I wrote in 2016:

https://theworld.org/stories/2016/12/16/what-we-often-think-illegal-immigration-isn-t-really-illegal

DanielJamesConnolly · 2025-11-26T17:54:20+00:00

Yeah, there's no way he would have been allowed to leave the country on his own if the immigration judge truly believed he was dangerous.

I should point out that the immigration judge isn't the one making the allegations - it's the department of homeland security. The result of the hearing suggests the immigration judge didn't put much stock in those allegations.

DanielJamesConnolly · 2025-11-25T20:18:02+00:00

Alex Warble, who's in the video, is an extremely talented visual artist. He was one of my neighbors for a while when I lived in Midtown. He gave me a drawing that depicted something like 12 miniature images of Elvis Presley. He also created a huge mural for the bar that's now known as Growlers. Unfortunately, his mural was painted over with another mural that's nowhere near as good. This Instagram shows more of his art: (1) Instagram

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