tdooley.bsky.social
Now: public safety policy for Oregon Counties
Then: policing manager & data nerd, firefighter / EMT
MPA & MCJ from UCCS
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I’ve had multiple people ghost interviews that they’ve scheduled the time for, and in one notable year, 5 people sign job offers and then bail out during the background investigation. 🤷♂️
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Numerous teachers told me that they are wasting many hours of their lives giving thoughtful feedback to robots
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People are shocked when they get back a sensible response that, once you read it for content, is completely bonkers.
Because the algorithm doesn’t think! It’s just guessing what words are to be strung together from its training data.
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Ok, I feel like a by hand form is at least an admission of your tech failures.
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So sad that I only ever made it to one show. It was awesome.
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Weird how you transition from sales to implementation to “customer success” and the level of vendor engagement declines all along the way.
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*Stares in small liberal arts college* 😳
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Stare Wars
Goldflinger
Puff the Magic Dragoon
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Socialize the costs and privatize the benefits. It’s not just for banking anymore!
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I’m reading this while nodding - as I eat my chocolate croissant and coffee.
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I can wholeheartedly agree with that.
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Grrrrr. They butchered some of the storylines (or maybe this is what WOT feels like with an editor) but still, I liked it anyway.
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Government is hard! We get all the problems the market can’t or won’t solve for. The idea that you can come in from the outside with no domain expertise and solve for thorny problems with years of backstory is peak hubris and unbelievably ignorant.
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Still proud of a childcare paper in grad school that got the comment “positive externalities?? Bonus points.”
Just wish policy makers had the same incentives! :)
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Can we talk about how they barely beat out the Guardian and are 1/5 the size of the NYT?
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I’m going to write a book on lobbying as an introvert.
Chapter 1. So you like public policy?
Chapter 2. Ugh. People.
Chapter 3. Persuasion, it’s not just facts and figures.
Chapter 4. Nap and tea
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The entire oeuvre of Kenny Chesney?
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Maybe the company should just teach the interns instead of hating on them. That’s literally why they’re doing the internship! Argh. :(
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And the unquestioned acceptance of what seems like authoritative answers, but it’s just predictive text!
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We have library dogs here! They’re very popular.
westlinnoregon.gov/library/libr...
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Or…they can just get a magistrate to sign a judicial warrant.
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Wait until they hear about puma and fila. Also adidas sambas!
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Apologies if it seems pedantic, I’ve spent the last 2 days drafting amendments to bills.
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An admin warrant is not criminal, so arguable if this is the applicable statute. I think it’s an interesting aspect, as we’ll likely see more admin warrants from this administration. There’s probably *an* offense here, but perhaps not *this* offense.
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We cannot. It’s a 4th amendment issue. media.oregonlive.com/clackamascou...
The definition is relevant. The statute talks about a warrant for a fugitive’s arrest.
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Ahh, but the federal rules of criminal procedure specifically say an arrest warrant must be signed by a judge. An immigration warrant signed by an officer is civil detention. It’d be a question for the legal brains to answer, but definition is relevant to me, if a warrant is an element of the crime.
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I bring this up because we have case law here that establishes local jails cannot hold someone solely on an administrative detainer from ICE if they’ve bailed out on their criminal cases locally.
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I think it’s a live question if “warrant” means an administrative warrant or one that is signed by a judge. My layperson googling didn’t find any case law on point as applies to this statute.
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We were already looking to backfill almost $20m in VOCA grant cuts in my state, just based on an overall decline in the crime victims grant funding, not even anything related to the administration. Curious to see what happens next.
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I’m a huge fan of this blend from the Empress Hotel in Victoria BC.
us.fairmontstore.com/products/tea...
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We have an ongoing debate in my house about proper PB&J construction. (I have a preschooler, so this is a regular thing). I peanut butter both sides of the bread, while my wife only does 1 side and jellies the other. The child is bemused.
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Sure, I’ve read the book. It’s a fair criticism, but I’d argue that police have to be at the table for violence prevention and excluding them will lead to failure. They don’t need to lead the effort, but it takes all perspectives & theories. Therapy, violence interrupters, housing, enforcement, etc
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I’d argue this depends on how you conceptualize ‘policing’. If it’s solely reactive, then sure, not helpful. If it’s proactive (not in a jump out way) then yeah, identifying people at risk is useful because you can do prevention with social services. Focused deterrence, but earlier.
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I wear a tie most days now, sadly. Successfully ate spaghetti with a white dress shirt on Monday. In my hubris I got a gyro today. Did not go as well.
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I’m a simple man. I see hamachi nigiri on the menu, I order it. Truly baffled by sushi rolls that look like brunch Bloody Mary’s.
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I knew LA rents were high. I didn’t realize they were $1k above my Portland area mortgage high. Yikes.
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In short, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and police work is complicated.
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This is truly one of my seminal texts from grad school. My ethics & leadership in public administration class was pretty good.
a.co/d/iJBMayS
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My (then) 4 year old came home from pre-k last year with many questions about the Titanic and had a newfound fear of ships. We were perplexed as to why they chose a disaster for preschool story time - but wow, it’s really a thing.
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🙄 omg. I cannot fathom that from a grad student.
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The tomato discourse™️ taught us that farming was a solved problem. It’s just math.
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