Perfectly timed retweets.
My mother (living in a rural community) just now, reading the local paper, complaining: The paper has stopped printing the names of people who get arrested. Just the age and what they were arrested for.Apparently, no one was ever wrongfully arrested; no one ever made a mistake one time; no one was ever to poor to pay a fine.
Me: That's a good thing.
Mother: How's that a good thing?
Me: Well, would you want to have your name printed?
Mother: No! And I wouldn't want to get arrested either! Of course I wouldn't want my name printed. That's a good reason to think twice and try to follow the rules!
I wish it were just old people who get off on seeing other people punished, and then when they all die off, we could have a compassionate world.
Alas.
FURTHER UPDATE:
Even the NYPD will respond to bad publicity if it hits the mayor.
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