daily 04/22/2016

• The Huntsman: Winter’s War Is So Bad, It’s Fantastically Wonderful

• Viable Opposition: American Police Culture – Are We Training Warriors or Guardians?

  • Constitutional rights are now viewed by some, including some police, as an impediment to the public safety mission

• How the NYPD Entraps Minority Business Owners and Milks Them for Money

  • Seven months later, more officers arrived, threatening to close the business for a year if the owner didn’t agree to pay a $2,000 fine, install security cameras whose footage would be accessible to the NYPD, and subject his business to warrantless searches

• NYC Election Board Official Suspended Without Pay Over Bungled Primary

  • A top official with the New York

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    More than 100,000 active Brooklyn voters were mistakenly purged from the books in advance of the election, leading to investigations from the state attorney general and the city comptroller’s office. According to the News’s sources, the problems came after Haslett-Rudiano skipped a crucial step when purging dead or inactive voters from the rolls, which would have protected active voters from being removed.

• Dallas Cowboys: NFL draft expert: Joey Bosa may not be best fit for Cowboys organization that can’t keep DEs in line | SportsDay – sportsday.dallasnews.com

  • Tony Romo celebrated his 36th birthday Thursday by attending Game 3 of the Mavs-Thunder series. He may have also been celebrating the fact the Dallas Cowboys won’t be able to select his eventual replacement in the first round.

• Daniel Figurelli – Page 5

  • Someone at work says “incompetent people by definition do not know they are incompetent; if they were able to discern their incompetence, by definition, they would display competency.”

• Hypnagogia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Threshold consciousness (commonly called “half-asleep” or “half-awake”, or “mind awake body asleep”) describes the same mental state of someone who is moving towards sleep or wakefulness, but has not yet completed the transition. Such transitions are usually brief, but can be extended by sleep disturbance or deliberate induction, for example during meditation.^{[citation needed]}

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