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Adding to the gakky news parade...

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/07/us/naacp-office-explosion/

The FBI is investigating an explosion outside a local NAACP chapter in Colorado.

A makeshift bomb, or improvised explosive device, detonated Tuesday morning but failed to ignite a gasoline can placed alongside it. No one was injured, but the incident left some shaken in Colorado Springs.

"All of a sudden I heard this big boom," one witness told CNN affiliate KDVR-TV in Denver. "There was smoke everywhere; the building on the side was burnt."

The witness continued: "Whoever did it took off right away though. That's all I heard and it was scary."

The FBI's Denver office said it's looking for a balding man, about 40, who was seen leaving the scene in a white pickup with a missing or covered license plate.

Another witness, Julie Skufca, told KDVR that she stared at a man as he drove away calmly.

"(It) kind of made your heart stop, especially when you have kids," she told the station.

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It's good that nobody died.

"A balding man, about 40"

Clear description there guys.

Skinhead maybe?

   
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Well, at least nobody was injured. That's one good thing to take away from this.

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Probably work

 Medium of Death wrote:
It's good that nobody died.

"A balding man, about 40"

Clear description there guys.

Skinhead maybe?


Maybe. Or a cop.

(too soon?)

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 Medium of Death wrote:
It's good that nobody died.

"A balding man, about 40"

Clear description there guys.



yea, that really narrows it down. Hey I guess they narrowed it down to only 25% of the population...

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 Frazzled wrote:
 Medium of Death wrote:
It's good that nobody died.

"A balding man, about 40"

Clear description there guys.



yea, that really narrows it down. Hey I guess they narrowed it down to only 25% of the population...


It's about as useful as the often reported "subject is a 5'something black male age 20-40"

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I take it American cities don't have anywhere near the same level of CCTV coverage as Britain?

   
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Correct.

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I know it wouldn't go down well but it might actually help to identify criminals a lot more easily.

Is it a constitutional thing or what?

There's no real CCTV in suburban areas in the UK, unless the residents are predisposed to crime or being victims of crime.

I think Northern Ireland, perhaps Ireland in general(?), has more "residential" CCTV.

Certainly you can't expect to walk through a major British city without being clocked by CCTV.


   
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Depends on the city in my experience. (In the US)

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 Medium of Death wrote:
I know it wouldn't go down well but it might actually help to identify criminals a lot more easily.

Is it a constitutional thing or what?


The usual argument against a big CCTV system (UK style) is usually something along this:

It's okay to have random cameras in random places, but when you have a system in place that lets you track everybody everywhere and know exactly where they have been at any point in time then you are getting close to violating the constitutional restrictions on searches. Past cases have gone back and forth a little about it being okay with actual police officers tracking people without a warrant but requiring a warrant to track people via GPS or other electronic means. The dividing line seems to be a bit nebulous at this time.
   
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 Medium of Death wrote:
I know it wouldn't go down well but it might actually help to identify criminals a lot more easily.

Is it a constitutional thing or what?


No, its been established that you don't have a right to privacy outside your home for some time now.

But its mostly a practical issue. Out cities and just the general country is so much bigger than other places where they have public security cameras. It would be monumentally expensive for a relatively small gain, and a lot of political controversy.

And if you want any sort of visual clarity, you need high quality and expensive cameras. And that's going to make it even more expensive.

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 Medium of Death wrote:
I take it American cities don't have anywhere near the same level of CCTV coverage as Britain?

In big cities, it's pretty damn close to Britian.

But suburbia/rural areas? Almost zero.

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Colorado Springs (my hometown as it happens) is a city of 500,000 people spread across a significant amount of space with a very low crime rate. Publically owned cameras would cost an insane amount of money, and many small business owners don't bother with them because they simply aren't needed in most parts of town.

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Cameras don't always help. Remember how long it took to find and capture that "DC Sniper" was several years back? Many cameras in that part of the country and it didn't really help. Police wound up looking for white cargo vans instead of the sedan that the sniper and that kid were actually using.


 
   
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No one thought at the time that someone was shooting out from a trunk of the sedan either.

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Most US cities are more like a collection of towns spread out over a large area but all being more or less contiguous. They may or may not have an actual downtown central area.

We're not small areas where people are packed in like Sardines. Only cities which fit that description is really NY and LA, and may Chicago(even that's spread out)

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Maybe not too close... proper dispersion can save a life.

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This article indicates the suspect, or at least, "person of interest" - i hate that phrase - indicates a balding, 40ish white male.

It begs the question, why aren't any prominent white men condemning this attack?

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Wow...glad nobody got hurt! Hopefully they catch the neckbeard who did it.

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"He may be driving a 2000 or older model dirty, white pick-up truck with paneling, a dark colored bed liner, open tailgate, and a missing or covered license plate," the FBI said in a statement said.


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Dirty beat up white pickups. Only a few million of those around the US.

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Dirty beat up white pickups. Only a few million of those around the US.


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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Colorado Springs (my hometown as it happens) is a city of 500,000 people spread across a significant amount of space with a very low crime rate. Publically owned cameras would cost an insane amount of money, and many small business owners don't bother with them because they simply aren't needed in most parts of town.


As a fellow CSer, I agree. Hearing this was honestly fairly shocking, as CS is pretty tame compared to most cities, even Denver.

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This article indicates the suspect, or at least, "person of interest" - i hate that phrase - indicates a balding, 40ish white male.

It begs the question, why aren't any prominent white men condemning this attack?

I denounce it!

But, then again... I don't think I fit in your "prominent" category.

:shrug:

Did they catch the bastich yet?

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It depends on how bald you are.

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It depends on how bald you are.

Not very.

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Probably work

Being bald, I find the widespread generalization troubling, but i'm 30ish, not 40ish, so I can dismiss it and go back to looking at my phone.

Also, not prominent.

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