man how does this stuff keep happening?! so confusing, must just be an incredible unbroken string of coincidences stretching back hundreds of years
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
it's okay folks, just a few more bad apples to chase out and then things will be just absolutely hunky dory
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
Indiana's new state motto is "More Oklahoma than Oklahoma."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Eric Adams's New York doesn't have the money to pay for lifeguards at the beach past 6pm during an August heat wave, but it has plenty of money to send a team of armed cops to arrest someone for swimming at the beach without a lifeguard. https://t.co/HR9l6sT0FU— Sam Feldman 🌹 (@srfeld) August 10, 2022
― President Keyes, Saturday, 13 August 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
arresting people for not showing their ID immediately because they're in the water, typical NY policing (though not NYPD this time). classy.
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
really cannot recommend this newsletter highly enoughhttps://substack.com/profile/9600332-alec-karakatsanis
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 August 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
Idk about this one - https://newrepublic.com/article/167627/defund-social-workers
Tbh it’s not that there aren’t reasonable points in there but a pretty godawful headline and opening.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 24 September 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
"Then Louise Casey’s second report into the Met is due in March, and is expected to be as damning, if not more so, than the first report, which found huge failings in how the force investigates officers. It led Rowley to admit that hundreds of racist, misogynist and corrupt officers have been allowed to continue to serve in the Met"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/16/met-police-david-carrick-one-woman-act-of-bravery-abuse
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
Met Police commissioner Mark Rowley says the force was investigating 1,000 sexual/domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers - @BBCNews reports.— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
In the UK police are to be given more powers to crack down on protest.
Worth repeating that police do not require an DBS certificate to work, which virtually every other job that comes in contact with the public does, because apparently it’s fine for them to vet themselves https://t.co/6gpPWIZY4W— thierry ennui (@alexeptable) January 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
i didn't know that. unfuckingbelievable
― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Some police officers came round to my friend's house after their downstairs neighbour died and they had to bust in. One officer took her housemate's number – she thought for official purposes. No, instead he texted her 'Hey, how are you?'— Moya Lothian-McLean (@mlothianmclean) January 26, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 January 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
The 363-page report condemns the force as institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic. Staff routinely experience sexism, it adds. There are racist officers and staff, and a "deep-seated homophobia" in the organisation.In London, Baroness Casey says policing by consent - the idea ordinary people trust the police to act honourably and be held accountable - is broken.The report says leadership teams at the top of the Met have been in denial for decades, and there has been a systemic failure to root out discriminatory and bullying behaviour.
In London, Baroness Casey says policing by consent - the idea ordinary people trust the police to act honourably and be held accountable - is broken.
The report says leadership teams at the top of the Met have been in denial for decades, and there has been a systemic failure to root out discriminatory and bullying behaviour.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65015479
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 07:11 (one year ago) link
Guess what happens next?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 08:41 (one year ago) link
First the inquiry, then the crime
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link
Who'd have thought it, eh?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
London Evening Standard crowing about how they're gonna put undercover officers to uncover bad behaviour in the met. Yeah, that'll do it.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:58 (one year ago) link
maybe there's a few good apples
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link
There is always another view.
The influence of what sorry? pic.twitter.com/CvhJvC6qeU— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) March 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
Fucking lunatic
― piedro Ă lamodevar (wins), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
I'm sorry to say we won't be able to hold the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to account tonight for the Casey Report's findings of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia because his press office have again excluded #C4News— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) March 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
It's astonishing he's still in post.. the stuff he's been talking about as responses are such weak-piss penny-ante crap. He seems completely out to lunch!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
almost wish khan hadn't finished cressida dick because she should be front and centre eating shit for this. except she would just brazen it out like she always does. then again if you were in charge of an operation where someone gets murdered and it doesn't so much as pause your rise to the top why would you ever expect consequences.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
The Irvo Otieno story is another example of how it isn’t just that police aren’t trained to be mental health workers, but people with mental health problems are despised and feared in the US. Truly sickening country
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link