😐
I'm shocked
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters
> A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.
US officer who put handcuffed woman in car hit by freight train found guilty
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/29/colorado-police-officer-car-freight-train
> Jordan Steinke convicted on misdemeanour charges but found not guilty of more serious charges over 2022 crash in Colorado
Man, this sure is weird. It's almost like police just somehow keep becoming racist, like, everywhere...
How does this keep happening
🤔...
NSW police use force against Indigenous Australians at drastically disproportionate levels, data shows
> Exclusive: Redfern Legal Centre obtained records which show First Nations people were involved in about 45% of the incidents
😮
US border agents habitually abuse human rights, report reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/us-mexico-border-human-rights-abuses
> Report shows ‘lack of accountability’ for misuse of lethal force, intimidation, sexual harassment and falsifying documents
😔
Six white ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on two Black men
> ‘Goon Squad’ burst into a home on 24 January without a warrant and brutalized the two men, shooting one in the mouth
And here’s a bit more detail from Mississippi,
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/08/03/six-rankin-officers-plead-guilty-to-torturing-two-black-men/
What I want to see is a surtax on wealthy people in that county to pay the inevitable deal.
“There’s no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car, parked on railroad tracks, creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train,” Kerns said.
This is insanity. It created a substantial and unjustifiable risk, but not enough to show intent to harm.
White supremacy snatches another ruling from the jaws of conviction yet again. 🙄
😮
Police reject black applicants at higher rate than white, data reveals
> Black applicants to ‘Uplift’ drive in England and Wales had 7.3% pass rate, compared with 18.7% for white people, analysis shows
This is a NEW rule
Brand New!
Fresh!
Police in England and Wales guilty of gross misconduct face automatic dismissal
> Staff who fail re-vetting can also be sacked under UK government reforms of disciplinary system
"And if we look at this long-term graph, we can see that 31 August 2023 was the precise point where verdicts of gross misconduct against police became far less common. I wonder why?"
@BigAngBlack
They can't?
I thought in the US #police was organized on the municipal level
Sheriffs being voted on.
Local police reporting to the elected mayor.
...
Richer areas tend to have requirements that the police live in the area, poorer areas tend not to.
It depends. Texas now has strict rules regarding municipal police budgets.
https://thetexan.news/texas-finalizes-anti-defunding-rules-for-large-city-police-departments/
I feel like part of the reason many cities went so hard for cars is because road traffic itself is such copaganda. Pedestrians and cyclists are keenly aware that cars are super dangerous and regularly flout the law. Car UIs designed around power fantasies at the point of sale and militate against driver self-regulation. The streets are therefore full of serious danger without any accessible mechanism to promote the safety of vulnerable people.
Every anarchist on a bicycle is in favour of speed limits and there's no way to enforce those currently aside from the threat of state violence. Which cops are very happy to deliver.
By contrast people on public transport relate to each other as people. Cop intrusion comes from fare enforcement, but this is overcome by making everything free.
@BigAngBlack It’s my understanding that some police departments end up being effectively revenue generators for the local government.
There are poor communities where this is particularly egregious because unpaid fines rack up outrageous late fees and additional fines.
Data driven policies wouldn’t fix everything but it would be a far site better. Anonymous data, not privacy violating data.
@BigAngBlack YESSSSSS!!!!
x 1,000,000,000 yes
This is almost certainly the case in the UK too - given the scale of police presence at protest marches, etc, and the tiny number of crimes being solved - less than 5% for house burglaries, for example, and less than 2% for rapes.
I fear we've fallen for a detective-fiction of what the police are doing - the reality is entirely different.
@BigAngBlack *eyes the BART train police (seriously) who do nothing but cause delays "due to police activity" and shut down stations whenever they feel like, multiple times a day*
yep
that tracks
@BigAngBlack there are also cops in the fucking LIBRARIES...
not just there to check out books or something, no, /stationed at the front door/
WTF
there's a reason we never go to the library here.
@BigAngBlack some have "private security" instead of literal police, but that's not really much better
and the grocery store (technically a Target, an Everything Store) has blatantly militarized ""security"" with guns, in blatant military-green uniforms, they're not even being subtle about it.
They appear to be more like crime cleanup and investigation preparers (when they're doing their job correctly that is).
Yup, fuck 'em. They've done more harm than good.
B. A. Balackus
JoeStewart
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
excited for the mastodon rise
Clay Rivers
Passenger
Lyle Solla-Yates
Suran
Woodswalked
Mastomom
Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂
the letter K
Thunderstrike
Charles ☭ is now tooting from queer.party
stella
MattO Oh there’s way more sp
Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Lesdmark
GeofCox
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
FoolishOwl
JohnW
MrShoggoth
Mallory's Musings & Mischief