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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

9/11 The US now has 13m citizens with permits to carry concealed firearms, which is more than 12 times the number of police officers. As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells [Evan] Osnos [author of a book being reviewed], the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby. The fall of the Twin Towers followed a decade of sharply declining crime rates and lower gun sales. Suddenly there was a new paranoia of terrorists to exploit. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount awarded to Michael Brown's family in their settlement against the city of Ferguson, Mo.: $1,500,000 To a Maryland family whose dog was killed by Anne Arundel County police: $1,260,000 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of the 100 highest-paid city employees in Boston last year who were members of the police department: 98 Harper's Index, May 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of people fatally shot by British police in the past 3 years: 2 Average number of people fatally shot by U.S. police each day so far this year: 2.6 Harper's Index, July 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers On average, between 1987 and 1991, 16 out of every 100 [police] officers were assaulted and 18 in every 100,000 died on active duty. Over the past five years those figures have fallen to ten assaults per 100 officers and nine deaths per 100,000. The Economist, September 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Color Here is the difference a color makes: “blue lives matter” expresses a fact in our society; “black lives matter” exists as a reminder, or an aspiration. The former is not a radical proposition; the latter, given the weight of history and habit, is a contested idea. Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, July 25, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Police should be required to justify every shooting incident Shooters claiming self-defense should be presumed to be innocent and immune from prosecution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Justice I feel so relieved. I feel relieved. I don't see how it could have been otherwise, but I do know that it could have been otherwise. As an African-American women, I am glad that I have lived to see this in my lifetime. I never thought I would live to see it, and I'm 91 years old. Woman interviewed by Shomari Stone of NBC News after the announcement that a  white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, had been convicted on all counts of murdering George Floyd, a black man © 2021 Kwiple.com
Justice A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice. Kamala Harris, commenting on the conviction of white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin on all three counts related to his May 25, 2020, nine-minute-and-twenty-nine-second knee-on-the-neck murder in public of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man pinned face down on the street against the tire of a police cruiser  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary yanezthetize (yə nez thə tīz), v. To authorize a white dressed in blue to kill a black. Memorializes Jeronimo Yanez, the St. Anthony, Minnesota, cop who panicked during a traffic stop, was live-streamed on Facebook from inside Philando Castile's car and caught on a police dashcam video as he shot Castile seven times, claimed he felt threatened when Castile followed his orders, lied about what he saw in court, and was acquitted of all charges. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Police  Though it spends vastly more on prisons, America devotes roughy 20% less as a share of its GDP on policing than the European Union average. The Economist, September 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Police Show me the man, and I will find the crime. Laventri Beria, Stalin's secret police chief © 2021 Kwiple.com
Political correctness WARNING: Harris County is politically incorrect. We say: Merry Christmas, God Bless America and In God We Trust. We salute our troops and our flag. If this offends you … LEAVE! Welcome sign posted at Harris County, Georgia, Sheriff's Department by Sheriff Mike Jolley © 2015 Kwiple.com
Racism But you're not black. Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? Georgia police officer caught on dash-cam video during a DUI traffic stop in July 2016 reassuring a woman she can drop her hands and call someone to come get her © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism Police shoot a 12-year-old black male with a toy gun within 2 seconds of arriving on the scene, standing by as he dies from gunshot wounds to the pelvis, intestines and major blood vessels vs. Local, state and federal police promise no confrontations, back off and move offsite to ponder negotiations when white anti-government militiamen brandishing assault weapons, threatening shootings and calling for insurrection occupy public land and buildings to protest jailing of white arsonists © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Arming police with military gear is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Discontinuing the use of the Department of Justice's authority to investigate or reform local police, however egregious their behavior, is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say No justice No peace   Placard, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, march protesting the acquittal of the cop who killed Philando Castile © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snuffed out I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … I can't breathe … Eric Garner, while being choked to death by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for selling loose cigarettes © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Police cars being festooned with “In God We Trust” bumper stickers © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Police, militarized, viewed by many as an occupying army © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say Cops don't have “standing” if they're laying on the ground in a pool of their own blood. Contribution to a discussion about planning for the January 6 rally posted to Donald.win, a self-described “never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” which generated a million visits a day before its owner shut it down following the January 6 insurrection; displayed during the public hearing held on July 12, 2022, by the House committee investigating events of January 6 © 2022 Kwiple.com