[Scape]

I hear there is 50 million unemployed. Perhaps they could be replaced.

[Thanos]

Question: why not take away the semi-automatic handguns with the magazines that hold up to twelve rounds away and re-issue the police with six-round revolvers? The semi-autos lead to far too many incidents of police emptying magazine after magazine at perpetrators, and typically in incidents that certainly don't warrant it. Like the infamous incident in NYC last decade where the NYPD blew awaysome guy who came out of his apartment with a TV remote in his hand, or that one in Chicago several years ago where some IQ-75 cop needed sixteen rounds to take down some dumb kid on a bicycle. Are there really that many "bad guys" out there who are so dangerous that the police, who show up in a swarm of vehicles carrying at least two officers per car, can't handle these situations with a .357 or .44 Magnum revolver?

I'm not saying give them back the old .38 calibers that were so underpowered that a round could actually bounce off a windshield if it struck it at the wrong angle. Just take away the multi-round hand-cannons away because it obviously leads to a reckless point-and-spray mentality among too many police.

[xerxes]

I say give them Derringers or nothing. The police have shown time and time and time again that they can’t be trusted with the authority to use lethal force. I know America is a fucked kind of place where a stupid amount of stupid people have guns, but if any other organized group killed people at the rate that the police do, be it the Crips/Bloods, the Black Panthers, the Three Percenters Et al, there would be a national panic and rightly so.

[raydan]

[DrCaleb]

$1:

Three cops fired after accidental dashcam activation captures racist rants

Three North Carolina police officers were fired from their jobs this week after investigators found incredibly racist, troubling conversations, and threats of violence accidentally recorded by the cops' own dashboard camera.

The dashboard camera in Officer Kevin Piner's patrol car captured more than 46 minutes of relevant footage from a two-hour recording, Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams said Wednesday.

According to the department's report (PDF), Piner's camera was recording due to "accidental activation." That activation ended up capturing Piner and two other officers, Jessie Moore and Brian Gilmore—all white—discussing Black members of the force as well as local protesters, using well-known racist slurs. At one point, Moore said a local magistrate, a Black woman, "needed a bullet in her head," before the three discussed their feelings that a civil war was coming, for which all three claimed to be ready. "We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them fucking n------s," Piner added.

The conversations "were brutally offensive and deserved immediate action," Williams said. "When I first learned of these conversations, I was shocked, saddened, and disgusted. There is no place for this behavior in our agency or our city and it will not be tolerated."

Williams also added that he was petitioning the court to determine whether the footage could be released publicly, in accordance with North Carolina law.
Proof vs. accountability

Police body or dashboard-mounted cameras are often promoted as a boon to police accountability, and the Wilmington case seems to prove why.

Many state and local governments have rushed to adopt resolutions in recent weeks calling for increased camera usage or funding, in response the ongoing nationwide protest movement against police brutality and in support of Black communities. In New York state, for example, the state Assembly just passed legislation requiring body cameras for all state police. Speaker Carl Heastie said about the measure, "As one of the largest state police agencies in the country, the New York State Police should be one of the first agencies to set an example, to show others how to properly use body cams to deliver transparency and accountability to the public."

Sometimes the footage does indeed work as intended. In 2017, for example, 34 criminal cases were thrown out in Maryland after footage from body-worn cameras showed police planting drugs near suspects.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... ist-rants/

[DrCaleb]

$1:

California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.

“Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday.

His administration will work with the police to “help eliminate racism in policing”, the seaside city’s first male African-American mayor said on his Facebook page, following a vote on Tuesday evening.

Used by police across the United States for almost a decade, predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.

But critics says it reinforces racist patterns of policing - low-income, ethnic minority neighbourhoods have historically been overpoliced so the data shows them as crime hotspots, leading to the deployment of more police to those areas.

“As Santa Cruz rightly recognized, predictive policing and facial recognition are dangerous, racially biased technologies that should never be used by our government,” said Matt Cagle, a lawyer with the ACLU.

PredPol Inc, the Santa Cruz-headquartered firm that pioneered the technology, said that it supported the city resolution’s requirement that predictive policing “will not perpetuate bias”, among other criteria.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN23V2XC

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

$1:

California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.

“Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday.

His administration will work with the police to “help eliminate racism in policing”, the seaside city’s first male African-American mayor said on his Facebook page, following a vote on Tuesday evening.

Used by police across the United States for almost a decade, predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.

But critics says it reinforces racist patterns of policing - low-income, ethnic minority neighbourhoods have historically been overpoliced so the data shows them as crime hotspots, leading to the deployment of more police to those areas.

“As Santa Cruz rightly recognized, predictive policing and facial recognition are dangerous, racially biased technologies that should never be used by our government,” said Matt Cagle, a lawyer with the ACLU.

PredPol Inc, the Santa Cruz-headquartered firm that pioneered the technology, said that it supported the city resolution’s requirement that predictive policing “will not perpetuate bias”, among other criteria.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN23V2XC

Yeah, we might need to beat/tase/arrest/shoot you to prevent a future crime.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Yeah, we might need to beat/tase/arrest/shoot you to prevent a future crime.

It goes much deeper. They made up the idea that black neighbourhoods have more crime, so they need more patrols. More cops find more crime, because they are looking for it, so that justifies their bias.

Meanwhile, crime in white neighbourhoods goes unchecked, because all the cops are patrolling black neighbourhoods.

[rickc]

This is not the typical police video where the police are assaulting or killing someone. This video shows what most cops actually do for a living: harass and intimidate. The police in the U.S. hate homeless people with a passion. The homeless are an easy mark. They do not have the money to hire lawyers when their civil rights get violated. They do not wish to lose what little they have, so they usually go along with police demands, even unlawful ones. Not this guy. He has to be the best spoken homeless person that I have seen yet.

This video also shows how cops use the "welfare check" to get a foot in the door to escalate the situation to fish for more revenue generation. If we are going to discuss defunding the police, than welfare checks should be at the top of the list of things that we take away from the police. Someone who looks like they are going out on patrol in Afghanistan has no business checking on anyone's welfare.

[rickc]

Wondering why the U.S.A is burning to the ground lately? This video will clear things up for you. Police departments are always whining that they are undermanned, yet this department can spare 10 officers to investigate what looks to be a homeless man scrounging around for food, or cigarette butts. Police have no business responding to these calls in the first place. Unarmed social workers and maybe medical personnel should be handling these calls.

This cops behaviour is way out of line. He is not wearing a mask. He is not practising social distancing. He gets right in this woman's personal space and even makes contact with her body, pushing her with his body. That is sexual assault. He knows that he is being recorded, but does not care. Who among us would still have a job if we called a woman a c... while we were on the clock representing our company? Not to many of us. This cop needs to be fired immediately!!! He should lose every cent of his pension. The taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for this POS living a life of luxury in retirement on our dime. That should be another point in police reform, all fired officers forfeit their pension. All of it! Every damn cent! If they knew that they had some skin in the game and actually stand to lose something, than maybe we would not have so many assholes (like this guy) working as cops.

[BartSimpson]

Fucking thugs fucking with people because they think they can get away with it.

Sick thing is you go all over the world fighting this shit only to have your goddamned police departments doing the same shit you fought in every shithole.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Sick thing is you go all over the world fighting this shit only to have your goddamned police departments doing the same shit you fought in every shithole.

If you haven't watched the recent season of "Patriot Act" on Netflix; Hassan says that's exactly what Immigrants think. They didn't come to the US so that the US could become like the countries they tried to escape. Immigrants inherit the bad along with the good, and it's their responsibility to do something about it just like the rest of us.

[Freakinoldguy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Fucking thugs fucking with people because they think they can get away with it.

Sick thing is you go all over the world fighting this shit only to have your goddamned police departments doing the same shit you fought in every shithole.

[Sunnyways]

$1:

Aurora police, with the District Attorney Dave Young in agreement, cleared their officers of any wrongdoing in the investigation. As a result, the officers were returned to their patrol duties.

McClain’s mother told the public her son’s death should serve as a call to the community to unify and make sure lethal force isn’t used in situations which she described as unnecessary.

“What is divided will never stand. So, let’s get ourselves together and do something,” she said.

Why in the hell are EMT's administering Ketamine? Ativan and Haldol are more commonly accepted sedatives but they gave this kid 500 mgs. And oh so conveniently their cameras aren't useful.

Defund the police.

He was a small person (I’ve seen his weight listed as 140 pounds), minding his own business and clearly terrified by the manhandling he got from the police. There was no threat there. Whatever about the legal situation, that is one of the most heart-wrenching videos I’ve seen on the subject.

[xerxes]

Same here. George Floyd’s death was hard to watch. This was even worse IMO.

And just the other day in Aurora, as people were holding a peaceful vigil for this young man, the cops came and chased them away with tear gas and pepper spray.

Fire every last one of them.