Cincy Weed Citations Looking Quite White
Poor people die quicker in Ohio, a sex pest prosecutor and more.
Ohio State fans have transcended into demigod status and when we bodybag the Christian Charlatan called Dabo then I’m afraid America really isn’t going to like us.
Our basketball fans are dawg checking opposing coaches. I’m old enough to remember when I was paid to watch an Ohio State–Rutgers basketball game on a Tuesday night like three years ago and hoping a stranger would break into my house and put a bullet through my skull.
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE? THE COPS OR THE EVIDENCE?
I remember reading about the Civil Rights Act in elementary school and thinking wow it’s a good thing we solved racism in this country! Shockingly I was just another white middle class dipshit who didn’t know any better.
This country is still wildly racist. And one way that’s shown is through the enforcement of marijuana laws.
Cincinnati police issued 67 marijuana-related warning citations in October. I’ll give you one guess as to the color of skin for a majority of “offenders.”
From Todd Dykes of wlwt.com:
CINCINNATI — Around 95% of marijuana citations issued recently went to African Americans, which has raised a lot of eyebrows.
"The critical piece is how this occurred," said Cincinnati police Chief Eliot Isaac.
What occurred is that Isaac's officers handed out 67 marijuana-related warning citations in October. Sixty-four of the citations went to African Americans.
"I’m not here beating you up," said Cincinnati Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman. "These are warnings that you’re giving."
But everyone taking part in Monday's Law and Public Safety Committee meeting wanted to be sure marijuana warnings are not targeting minorities.
"I've seen no evidence of that," Isaac said. "It's something that won't be tolerated, I can assure you of that."
The only way Chief Isaac isn’t seeing the racist enforcement on who gets jacked up over some weed is he truly believes black people make up 95% of weed smokers in America.
Because that’d be the only way there’s not evidence of racial bias among his officers.
ONE BENEFIT OF BEING POOR: YOU GET OUT OF HELLWORLD QUICKER
America was founded on the principle of every man being equal. What they meant of course was that all white property owners were created equal. Since then we’ve relaxed those rules a little but we are very much still a country of haves and have-nots.
One example of this is the life expectancy of rich and poor Ohioans.
From Kate Warren and Joe Ahren of communitysolutions.com:
Not everyone has an equal opportunity to live a long and healthy life, as is evidenced by the wide disparities in life expectancy throughout the State of Ohio. There is much more to health than health care; the conditions in the community in which you live influence how healthy you will be and how long you will live. Being able to measure health outcomes at the very local level is important if we are to shape policies and services that improve these conditions for vulnerable communities.
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Throughout the state, if you live in a poor area, you are likely to live a shorter life than those who live in wealthier areas. Similarly, if you live in an area with a high percentage of Black residents, your life expectancy will be lower than that of counterparts living in majority white areas. These correlations are statistically significant, but do not prove causation.
Residents of this tract can expect to live to age 88.6, more than 23 years longer than their neighbors just across the Cleveland border
As poverty rates increase by census tract, life expectancy decreases. In Ohio, we see increased poverty rates mainly in the urban cores and the rural Appalachian parts of the state. While the lowest life expectancies in the state are in the cities of Columbus and Dayton, the third lowest life expectancy, 61.6 years old, is in part of Steubenville, Ohio, located right on the East Central border of the state near West Virginia. The highest life expectancy in the state, 89.2 years old, is in exurban Stow, Ohio.
People who think a kindler, gentler capitalism is possible without substantial reform are naive. These are the disparities created by the system. They are racist and classist. And the gap is only going to grow until one day the poor have had enough and realize there’s a lot more of them than the billionaires.
DAVE YOST ALLOWS SEX PEST TO CONTINUE PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL
You might think #MeToo changed the landscape of how Americans talk about sexual harassment. It’s true but only to a certain degree.
For the scope of the limits we turn to friend of the newsletter Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost who is letting the Sandusky County prosecutor keeping throwing people in jail after he admitted to multiple sex crimes in the court of law.
From Matt Westerhold of sanduskyregister.com:
FREMONT — Dave Yost won’t say if rights of victims were ignored by his investigators during the sex crimes investigation of Sandusky County Prosecutor Tim Braun.
Ohio’s top prosecutor also refuses to talk about polygraph tests, missing files, secret subpoenas and secret court rulings. And, he’s declined comment about if staff personnel in the prosecutor’s office mishandled child porn videos.
Despite Yost’s refusal to address questions directly related to the responsibilities of his office and to subordinates who work for him, he did make one telling statement weeks ago about Braun.
“It is my understanding that the grand jury has been cancelled and a negotiated plea has been reached. No further details are available,” Yost wrote the Register in an email Oct. 29. “Mr. Braun should resign immediately. No victim of sexual assault, no victim of workplace harassment, could believe she would be treated fairly in an office he oversees.”
The plea deal Braun might get Friday in court in front of a visiting judge could get him a misdemeanor charge and allow him to keep his job or run for county judge next year. Judge Janet Burnside will preside at the 1 p.m. hearing. Read: By the book Burnside
Anytime a politician doesn’t want to talk about something related to their job it’s because they know they look like shit and can’t even offer a defense so they just slink away until everybody else is forced to move on with their lives.
Dave Yost should be asked about this mockery every time he steps foot in public until he enlightens the rest of us why this sex pest is worthy of holding power in Ohio.
GM CAN YOU LEND ME A MILLION? THANK YOU
General Motors is shelling out $40 million to a company looking to take over the shuttered Chevy Cruze plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
From the Associated Press via bostonglobe.com:
TOLEDO, Ohio — General Motors has agreed to loan $40 million to a newly formed company that wants to make electric pickup trucks at a massive Ohio assembly plant GM shut down earlier this year.
The agreement between the two companies also would allow GM to buy back the plant up until next May, documents filed last week show. The amount available would be more than enough to cover the $20 million price tag for the plant.
Lordstown Motors Corp. announced a month ago that it had bought the the once-bustling factory near Youngstown that made the Chevrolet Cruze up until last March.
The new company wants to begin making electric trucks by late 2020, but it also said that it still needs more investors before manufacturing can begin.
I’ll be curious to see if Lordstown Motors Group is a unionized shop because I’ve got $1,000 that says they won’t be.
WATCH SOME ROCKS FLY THROUGH SPACE
If you don’t have anything going on during Friday night feel free to step outside to get a glance at the cosmic stones fly through sky.
From Chris Mosby of patch.com:
CLEVELAND — A Geminid meteor streaks between peaks of the Seven Sisters rock formation early in 2018, in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. The meteor display is known as the Geminid meteor shower because it appears to radiate from the constellation Gemini.
The Geminids meteor shower, known for colorful shooting stars, fireballs and long-lasting tails, is like an early holiday light show coming to the skies over Ohio. The shower, regarded as one of the year's best, peaks late Friday night and early Saturday morning. Weather permitting, we may see as many as 30 meteors an hour.
The National Weather Service is currently predicting a partially sunny Friday, with a high in the mid-40s. A chance of rain will develop overnight, from Friday into Saturday, so sky gazers will want to go out early.
Hopefully there’s not some cult out there who sees this as the end of the world. We are definitely not that lucky so please don’t drink their juice!!!
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