Abolish the Police

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/02/portland-police-guard-dumpster-face-off-with-residents-trying-to-get-discarded-food-from-fred-meyer.html

Roundup:

Rochester sure seems like a fucking racist shithole.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/nyregion/daniel-prude-rochester-police.html

Unsurprisingly, so is Aurora, CO:
https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-killing-of-elijah-mcclain-everything-we-know.html

Salient quote from that second article:

On February 22, the independent investigators released the results of their months-long inquest that combed body cam footage, videotaped interviews with the responding officers and their follow-up reports, notes from the scene, the 911 call and the dispatch record, the autopsy report, medical records, and more. In 157 pages, the investigators contend that the APD “stretched the record to exonerate the officers rather than present a neutral version of the facts,” and that police — particularly Woodyard — escalated “what may have been a consensual encounter with Mr. McClain into an investigatory stop,” without reason to suspect criminal activity. “This decision had ramifications for the rest of the encounter,” the report states, emphasizing the speed with which officers resorted to (what investigators deemed) unnecessary force, and questioning the justification for a “pat-down search” in the first place.

The report also notes that first responders injected McClain with an inappropriately large dose of ketamine “based on a grossly inaccurate and inflated estimate of Mr. McClain’s size,” without attempting to “examine or question” him first. “At the time of the injection,” the report states, “Mr. McClain had not moved or made any sounds for about one minute.”

After the fact, the report says, detectives with the APD’s Major Crimes unit “failed to ask basic, critical questions about the justification for the use of force” and “seemingly ignored contrary evidence” in its investigation of the incident.

On Monday, City Manager Twombly said he and City Council were “reviewing their report and look forward to hearing additional context during their presentation before we comment further,” according to ABC. McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, told CNN: “It was overwhelming knowing my son was innocent the entire time and just waiting on the facts and proof of it. My son’s name is cleared now. He’s no longer labeled a suspect. He is actually a victim.”

“I looked at everything that happened to him because it’s my responsibility,” she added. “Even in death, he’s still my son. His name, his legacy. All that matters.”

There've been a bunch of other recent happenings and issues in regards to various cases, too. So many that those are just the first two that popped into mind.

aurora definitely, "unsurprisingly" otm.

it's taken me a long time to realize that a big part of what drove western expansion was a vision of white supremacy. the whole west is in the grip of that legacy and it sees particularly brutal application in places like aurora or albuquerque or west valley city, ut, although sometimes i think i'm actually grateful for the mormonism in utah because there is a utopian strain of it that makes the racism more genteel (for better or for worse).

a big "more anti-racism bias training" bill is about to pass in utah. i mean, i wish it would help and i'm sure there's some good / important stuff in the training but it's pretty obviously a case of "implement a new policy as a way of lying to ourselves and sweeping the larger dynamic / material reality under the rug."

anything other than "fewer cops with fewer jobs and fewer weapons" is a smokescreen

i 100% agree.

map, there are loads of books on the issues you're getting at, but i highly recommend this one by Manu Karuka: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296640/empires-tracks

cool, thanks for the rec!

it does an excellent job of mixing polemic with historical fact

my kind of material lol

thx table

the other new developments (i posted on police brutality thread) were the buffalo cops not being indicted for shoving the guy to the ground, and rochester police spraying a handcuffed child with OC spray in a premeditated fashion.

i mean i posted the buffalo one on the other thread, not that it matters

hi harbl, thanks for the info

also philadelphia police demand "accountability pay" in exchange for measures intended to make them follow rules. truly the specialest profession. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-contract-discipline-reform-accountability-20210209.html

ok we've tried reform

the Philly PD is the most obviously racist and corrupt police force of almost any i've ever encountered.

This has some great dataviz work:
https://www.leonardonicoletti.com/work/deathtoll

Abolish “defund the police”.

— San (@sansdn) April 2, 2021

this ebook is free https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing

haven't finished it but it seems pretty solid and accessible (if US-centric) and probably as inoffensive to the unconvinced as a book with this title/premise could be (downplaying of UK police awfulness rankles, but at least it acknowledges the british colonial origins of modern policing). as usual i find the diagnosis more convincing than many of the suggested alternatives but that's just me

if we abolish the police wont you have to leave?

is the zing that I'm a cop or that I'm a broken record? just so I know how offended to be

but of course I would take that deal

doing the bit where youre an undercover cop, gotta keep things spicy

I'm generally against kinkshaming but cop fantasies can gtf

sry but i will never stop being horny 4 justice

anyway 1312 including known undercover cop user "left"

Fellow children, pls behave

yknow who ELSE heavily regulates behavior hmmmmm

this is all a bit rich coming from M Bison

please, M Bison is my fathers name

tbf it has been very obvious that user left is a cop all along

if you ask a cop if they're a cop, they have to tell you the truth

but an overt cop might lead with their badge. maybe even a bulletproof badge

if you ask a cop for their hat so that you can take a shit in it in the street they have to give it to you

wait til Judge Dredd finds his helmet

not really aware of the intricate unspoken history of trolling here but the book is a very good read, I'd only read excepts previously

the book is good, i downloaded it a while back

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— PGPDNEWS (@PGPDNews) June 3, 2021

Fuck of

recoperation

Assigned
Cop
At
Birth

ACAB

https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/police-officer-sued-for-flipping-pregnant-womans-car-when-she-didnt-stop-fast-enough/

There's dashcam video on reddit and this woman was very clearly looking for a safe place to pull over (had slowed down, had her hazards on) when this impatient shitheel decided to PIT maneuver a pregnant woman's car.

there was one time I was getting pulled over where I abruptly reduced speed due to being startled and the cop gave me shit for 'pulling over and braking too abruptly'.

this lady tries to pull over safely and gets pitted by an aggro bro cop.

it's almost like these thugs just want obedience and worship.

Yeah, I just assume he didn't consider that "immediate compliance" and decided that risking not only her life, but anyone else on that highway's life, was the proper response.

It just makes me so angry because a) this is often what women are told to do, pull over somewhere safe and well lit (preferably in sight of witnesses or cameras) and b) it was also to his benefit because that narrow ass shoulder wasn't going to be safe a stop at all. Just, so infuriating.

we'd all be better off if a semi had domed him shortly after. fuck cops

https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2021/07/24/pasco-sheriffs-office-letter-targets-residents-for-increased-accountability/

“You may wonder why you were enrolled in this program,” the letter continues. “You were selected as a result of an evaluation of your recent criminal behavior using an unbiased, evidence-based risk assessment designed to identify prolific offenders in our community. As a result of this designation, we will go to great efforts to encourage change in your life through enhanced support and increased accountability.”

This kind of language is just chilling.

wow. that is FUCKED UP

Terrifying.

in the same article, they link to this earlier investigation (https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/school-data/)

The Pasco Sheriff’s Office keeps a secret list of kids it thinks could “fall into a life of crime” based on factors like whether they’ve been abused or gotten a D or an F in school, according to the agency's internal intelligence manual.

The Sheriff’s Office assembles the list by combining the rosters for most middle and high schools in the county with records so sensitive, they’re protected by state and federal law.

School district data shows which children are struggling academically, miss too many classes or are sent to the office for discipline. Records from the state Department of Children and Families flag kids who have witnessed household violence or experienced it themselves.

According to the manual, any one of those factors makes a child more likely to become a criminal.

Four hundred and twenty kids are on the list, the Sheriff’s Office said.

i'm sure being on the Evil Kid List + One (1) criminal offense = on the Shit List forever in Pasco county. what a fucking shitty sheriff's dept, evil