14 year old Max has the right diagnosis (designed to maximise engagement), politicians have wrong solution (bans which require everyone to be policed on the internet). The problem is the business model so politicians need to regulate *that*.
#SocialMedia #AgeGating #OverPolicing #AttentionEconomy

https://news.sky.com/story/is-social-media-messing-up-our-kids-spains-battle-against-doomscrolling-schoolchildren-13509592

The London police had 7 cops turn up to arrest an autistic activist in his supported accommodation flat. He had only attended some meeting and handed out flyers- he had no intention of being involved in disruptive protest and says he now suffers from PTSD as a result of police treatment.

#overpolicing #disabilityrights #autism

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/22/police-arrested-autistic-activist-in-supported-housing-as-part-of-quaker-raid-operation

(20 Jun) New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports

by Eli Hager ...

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/6dyxk
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/w3NnO ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/yg1pm

#overpolicing-parents

The Bail Project released their annual report for 2024.

"The Bail Project has provided free bail assistance and community-based supportive services to over 34,000 people, posted over $101 million in bail, and prevented nearly 1.3 million days of incarceration."

https://bailproject.org/learn/our-2024-annual-report/

Donate: https://bailproject.org/donate/

#TheBailProject #bail #overpolicing #police #discrimination

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

It’s time for a new direction in sexual offense policy. #massIncarceration #policeState #overpolicing #toughOnCrime

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2024/02/28/its-time-for-a-new-direction-in-sexual-offense-policy/

There actually are ways to reduce crime and increase safety, and they don’t involve #massincarceration or the #overpolicing of a #policestate

https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-michigan-must-prioritize-investment-safety-prosperity-equity

Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

We examined 23,631 predictions... Fewer than 100 of the predictions lined up with a crime in the predicted category...

Records showed that none of the five arrests that occurred in prediction locations during the time period of our analysis could have conceivably been due to officers responding to a Geolitica prediction...

#Predpol #Geolitica #future #overpolicing #prediction

N.J. city to expand controversial gunshot detection system using $1M grant
https://www.nj.com/essex/2023/09/nj-city-to-expand-controversial-gunshot-detection-system-using-1m-grant.html

...the City Council approved expanding the city’s ShotSpotter system, voting unanimously to accept a $1M grant from the state... to install the technology in areas of the East and North wards. The city began using ShotSpotter in 2011...

#privacy #Shotspotter #Newark #NewJersey #guns #crime #overpolicing

#Maryland #legalizes #recreational #cannabis #use.

23 states and #WashingtonDC have #legalized

“In legalizing #cannabis, we are abandoning a #failed #criminaljustice #policy that perpetuated the #overpolicing, #overarrest, and #overincarceration of too many #Marylanders, particularly #Black and #brown people.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Progress #BlackMastodon https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/07/07/md-legalizes-recreational-cannabis-use/