I don't think you can conclude anything connecting the press conference to events from the last 48 hours without knowing when the press conference was scheduled. Even if you had that info, just knowing that last Saturday was when the County went to the park to review everything really takes the wind out of the sails of any conspiracy...

Why this week instead of next? Kennywood now has 4 weeks to address the remaining concerns instead of 3. And look at the top-level comment, they rouse suspicion for having the conference 2 months before the election- pushing it back a week lends more credence to them!

Just based on the article, it took two months to launch a criminal investigation, conclude a security review, and draw up security recommendations (as the park is actively being used!), then three months for Kennywood to review and implement them in the off-season. Finally, a week to review Kennywood's changes and conclude they are insufficient. What do you think is a reasonable timeline for everything to happen?

I think there's one really obvious significant security difference between the stadiums and the park: the park had a shooting inside it a few months ago.

Violent crimes against peace officers are indeed prosecuted more harshly, not because of the DA, but because those are the statutes on the books federally and in literally every state

If DC city council decriminalizes all violence, is the city-council form of governance systemically corrupt?

If a public university in Florida abolishes their office of diversity, equity, and inclusion, do you think less of the University of Pittsburgh?

Or public transit. Or state government, mostly. Or healthcare- I think Pittsburghers have good experience with identifying problems with UPMC and not baselessly projecting them on, say, AHN.

The only public institution held to this standard I can think of is the judiciary, and they are closely intertwined with police anyway.

That's not very nice, neighbor. Local governments set up and are responsible for the actions of their own police departments, and there's tens of thousands of them. How can you assume there are problems in one because there are problems in another? What other bureaucratic or corporate structure or occupation is held to that standard?

See, you should've just started with this instead of pulling something from the other side of the country. Now your point has credibility!

Well, I think the implication would be for you to apply to work for the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, not some department 3000 miles away. Unless you're planning to move to LA? Or is there an example here locally?

In the county so far this year, I can count at least two. How many do you know of?

Both of them were actively shooting at cops.

None of those are criminalizing being broke as they are all only applicable to people duly convicted by their peers. Criminalizing being broke would be like charging money for a public defender (but they are free). They owe a debt to society in a similar way that someone who parks in a fire line and gets ticketed does.

Why? It's an alternative to being in jail and it needs to be paid for somehow.

She was delinquent with paying 5k in electronic monitoring fees and the motion to detain got her to pay up. Nice job Zappala

Since when? 1968? I would bet neither of us were able to experience police back then, but by all accounts things are much better than they were during the Civil Rights Era. To suggest otherwise really undermines the sacrifice and brutality civil rights leaders like MLK, John Lewis, and countless others went through. Even with improvement over the past 50 years, accountability is not full and things aren't perfect - neither here in Pittsburgh nor around the nation - but things have changed

Up until university, really, kids don't really have a huge say in where they're going to school, and the choice of a religious education is up to the parents. As for why parents might choose a religious school for their kids, it could be physically closer to home or work; public schools in the area could range from abysmal to subpar; or any other sort of non-religious reason. I've not known the local religious schools to be exclusive to members of their faith, either, so ultimately the proportion of religiously interested and theologically educated students coming out of these schools is really low, I'd guess 10-20%.