The term zero tolerance has been used as a pejorative term to criticize broken windows, and appropriately so. Broken windows wasnt zero tolerance. Zero tolerance, first of all, implies a zealotry about you will have no discretion. And the second thing is, it says you dont have any discretion which is exactly what we want to avoid which sets up a high arrest thing. But let me just talk about, zero tolerance can be a useful tool at times, at particular locations around particular problems. But you have to be very specific about that. Think, for example, of just a very simple example, school buses. We simply understand that the risks of people passing school buses is so great and the consequence is so great that we dont want any discretion about that. We want to send out a message you pass a school bus thats discharging or getting children, youre in deep, deep trouble. So and i could give you other examples of that. So zero tolerance is antithetical to the whole approach of broken windows
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Gallons of fresh water for each fracking. An 90 of the water never returns to the surface, so its permanently removed from the water cycle. Fracking requires millions and millions and millions of gallons of water per well. There also seems to be a strong correlation between hydraulic fracking and seismic activities. A good example would be youngstown, ohio. Just before Christmas Eve two years ago, a guy was pumping water into the rocks and kept pushing more and more pressure and the rocks went he created a little earthquake, magnitude 4. Another issue it of the oil acquired by fracking is often proving to be more flammable than traditional forms of oil. And, for example, the baseline crude oil 40 of what is going in the rail cars are explosive, volatile, coming from beneath the earth. What is called benzene and derivatives. The techniques need to be regulated. We need to do them responsibly. We need to understand that the chemicals that are being utilized here we need to make sure that
21, much larger chemical attack that kills 1400 people. Swivel, where obama is about to use force and launch a retaliatory attack, and then he says it is up to congress. When it is clear congress will hand his head to him coming he reaches out to his former good buddy Vladimir Putin who comes up with this issue of removing chemical weapons as a way of taking a place of the automated the United States had sent down with its red on the use of ravens. One of the things that i find the service i find disturbing is what this has been all about. People notice when obama at his press conference, a very attitude, prickly in this, 969 words particular spots, and obama says those who would criticize our syrian Foreign Policy say we do not mean sending in troops. What do you mean . You should mean assisting the opposition. What else do you mean . Strike you should take a at syria. What else are you talking about . At this point the criticism trails off. Thatis ridiculous because previous weekend
Tracking him down. Reporting begins now. Fox urgent. Threat over in colorado. The young women, a high school student, who investigators say was obsessed with the massacre at columbine and who they feared was intent on causing harm is dead as the school prepares to mark this weekend 20 years since that shooting. The denver post said somebody spotted the suspect running nakeded through the woods and tipped off police. Yesterday she sparked a man hunt after she flew across the country to denver, bought a shotgun and made violent threats against area schools. The threat closed schools in 20 districts. Keeping 500,000 kids out of classes today ending when cops say she shot herself in the head. Investigators say the 18yearold was sol pais. They say she flew to colorado and bought the weapon and ammunition, and that was enough evidence to close schools and park the man hunt. The fact that she was committed, purchased a plane ticket, not only that but made the journey that pilgrimage to columb