Wednesday, April 22, 2015

BREAKING: No One Opposes Saving Lives

Not even the usual suspects. Huh... HB271, "relative to possession and administration of an opioid antagonist for opioid-related overdoses," before the NH Senate Health and Human Services Committee, 4/21/2015.

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Monday, April 13, 2015

Weare PD: As Consistent As They Wanna Be

Except that consistency, per se, provides us no useful insight whatsoever into the thus allegedly consistently produced quality, now does it?


According to our own Weare Community News:
A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) will visit Weare on April 6 to examine all aspects of the Weare Police Department’s policy and procedures, management, operations, and support services. ...

As part of the on-site assessment, agency employees and members of the community are invited to offer comments at a public information session that Monday, April 6, at 7:00 p.m.  in the Weare Public Safety Complex Training Room at 144 North Stark Highway, Weare.
Do allow your humble chronicler to synopsize the evening's agenda items: "We are The Accreditors. Any questions? Great! Drive safely!" Not quite the "public role" one might have been excused for expecting, no?

This appears to be the local arm of the accrediting cartel. My understanding is that, much like ISO9000, this certification merely confirms that a consistent process is in place, not that that process is actually effective or lawful (as opposed to merely and ostensibly "legal") or desirable, or anything.

And I suspect contrary to Rep. Kurk's hopeful assessment, Weare taxpayers will be paying regardless of the outcome. But they get a plaque an' everything. Hey, what if we made the cops pay for it, themselves? Betcha it suddenly wouldn't be quite so important then, eh...?

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Citizen Brings Pot To Senate Pot Hearing

Doesn't get arrested. Chaos doesn't ensue. Society doesn't collapse. Nobody -- not even a dog -- dies. Seriously, check it out. HB618, "relative to penalties for the possession of marijuana" -- decrim -- barrels into the NH Senate Judiciary Committee, 4/7/2015. The House passed 'decrim' (yet again) last month.

The prohibitionists, clearly again terrified, are careening headlong toward Crazy Town...

(Ok, his testimony starts at about 54:30...)

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NH Police Chiefs and NH Dept of Safety Part Ways

Who saw that coming...? The reliably recalcitrant and defiantly authoritarian NH Association of Chiefs of Police and the evidently not-always-quite-so-much NH Department of Safety break ranks on not arresting people who help an overdose victim. HB270, "granting immunity from criminal prosecution to a person who reports a drug related emergency," before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 4/7/2015.

'Course, representing the chiefs is the always entertaining Chief Crate, and I'm never completely certain that he's not intentionally doing a subtle and satiric form of social commentary. See if you can tell...

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Hemp. Because CONTROL ALL THE THINGS...!

Having cleared the NH House handily in mid-March again (and again), the Senate Judiciary Committee now takes up HB494, "relative to industrial hemp as a controlled substance," 4/7/2015.