#(also acab)

[ponysoprano]

ill try the rest of these characters eventually but for now im warden georg throwing out over 10,000 binding words each day

[ravenclawshermione]

DC Fanfic - Roots

Since I'll be posting a new Calla-centric fic on Thursday 9/3, I wanted to share my existing works for her leading up to then! ^-^

Jason Todd is the closest thing that Calla Carr (alias Thorne) has to a sibling. So when he asks her to do a job with Bludhaven's Golden Boy she agrees, despite her reservations about the BatFam and the fact that her morals are a lot more gray than the black and white view that heroes like him usually have. What she didn't anticipate was Nightwing's frustrating ability to get under her skin and into her mind.

Dick Grayson thought he knew what to expect from the relatively new to Gotham vigilante, Thorne. It was supposed to be a relatively straightforward job, one that Jason had even implied might lead to a new member of the extended team. He hadn't been prepared for her at all.

Things get complicated, feelings get complicated, and Calla just might finally decide to put down roots

The cold night air felt amazing on my face as I sped through the city. Times like this I was almost tempted to ditch the helmet, let the wind run through my hair. If I were just a bit more confident in my ability to catch myself in time if there was an issue I might, but it wasn't worth the risk. 

I was almost to the edge of the city when I got the ping. Knowing that there was a very high likelihood that it would bring me back into the city I pulled over, trying not to be too annoyed. 

Nightwing. I blamed the rush of adrenaline on the mission. 

Hey, got an update. Can you meet up? 

It was followed by a geotag, showing the location of one of the safe houses that I'd crashed at before with Jason.

Yeah, be there in 15. Pizza this time? There's a place like three minutes away, Mina's. If you can have two slices of cheese waiting for me that'd help make up for the fact that I'm missing a delicious homemade chicken Alfredo ;)Deal 🍕

[flyin-shark]

Are you more a brick-through-the-window or a cutting-breaklines kinda guy with cop cars?

Wouldn’t you like to know, Firefox user? >:3

[anotherpapercut]

people make fun of Spotify's algorithm but no one knows me less than Etsy knows me

[cumbunnywitch]

I personally think all minorities and queers should learn how to use a firearm.

I have a few reasons for this. Hear me out.

Firstly, I know a lot of people who are scared of guns. Like, really scared of them. And like a lot of phobias, the best way to get over your fear of guns is to learn about how they work and what they can actually do. How does it go together? What's a bullet look like? Why is it shaped like that, what are all these things?

Everything has its own answer. Personally, I haver an AR-15. In like 4 days I'm gonna paint it to look like a trans flag because I can. A civilian AR-15 is something that's fun and easy to shoot without needing to get all technical and thinking about sights and scopes and carry weight, fuck that. It's just an easy to use rifle, safe to handle, and reliable. The gun itself isn't evil. Don't let fuckbois neckbeards and bootlickers evilize another inanimate object.

Secondly, knowing what a gun can and can't do can be important. Yes, they are deadly. Yes, they are dangerous. But knowing how fast you can change from one target to another can help you understand how someone else could. Protest goes south? You wanna know how long that reload is gonna be so you can get the fuck out at the best time. Another fuckboi shoots up a place people are at? Same thing, you wanna know what you can reasonably hide behind.

And lastly, the least likely thing. Like, there's almost no way this is going to happen, but fuck is it a scary thought that weighs heavily on my mind. The thought that someone is going to wish harm on you specifically and invade your home. Having a home defense weapon isn't inherently safe, and knowing how to safely and securely store your firearm and how to use it in the (again, extremely) unlikely event that someone invades your home is a prerequisite to having said firearm anywhere near your home.

TL;DR: Everyone should learn the ins and outs of how to use a gun, shoot a few of them if they can, and own one if they think it's in their own best interests. If you think it isn't, then don't own a gun. Many ranges will offer gun rentals for shooting at the range, or safety courses will often include a rental with the class.

[hamletphase]

fuck the police (guy who is on his phone at work)

[mokeonn]

I think something that sucks is having such a fierce and passionate anger, but you can't act on it. Yes, I am passionately angry about capitalism. But I can actively work on that! I can actively channel that anger to do something good for myself and others. But unfortunately, if I'm angry about my teeth problems, I have to sit and stew because I can't kill my orthodontist.

[antimony-ore]

[betterwithoutsense]

the cop - firefighter feud in b99 is really funny to watch cause like,,,,, the 99 are 100% the bad guys. why tf would you hate firefighters??

[kingkyks]

everyday I hate this country a little bit more

[doomdoomofdoom]

With the ongoing investigation into the CEO Killer, it's interesting to see how little people know about police investigations. Which is funny, because most of that stems from Copaganda and is now kinda biting the cops in the ass.

Semi-Educated rambles about copaganda and real procedures below the cut

I say semi-educated because I am writing a thesis paper on copaganda, but much more about the brutality aspects and not the crime solving ones. I did write a much less intense paper on that almost ten years ago, and presumably some things have changed. Take my "expertise" with a grain of salt.

The Copaganda Thing

Copaganda (Cop Propaganda) is basically what the name suggests. Anything that makes police look good. Social media posts about community outreach, the adorable little K-9 units, kneeling next to a protestor that you brutalize after the camera turns off. But the massive elephant in the room here are Cop Shows. There are literally too many for me to name. NCIS, Blue Bloods, True Detective, any of those weird "live" police shows, and yes, Brooklyn 99, too. These shows (often produced in cooperation with the police btw) serve to humanize cops and portray them as good, honest people, who maybe have to cross the line sometimes but it's always for a good reason and they're always right and save the day! The other half of it is vastly misrepresenting how (and if) crimes get solved.

Reality

Ripping this band-aid off first: Police are dogshit at solving crimes. There are aspects technically outside their control, like that only about half of all crimes (excluding murder) actually get reported to the police. (Based on comparing the 'Uniform Crime Reports' and the 'National Criminal Victimization Survey') But this also means that the Police Clearance rates are only half of what they calculate. Numbers get further skewed by not accounting for a lot of online crimes because the system hasn't caught up with like, the 90s. Anyway, for reported crimes, investigations will lead to an arrest in about 20-25% of cases. Three out of Four cases die without ever apprehending a suspect. (While there are ways to deal with a case without an arrest, ask yourself if you think that's likely in a system that measures success by arrest numbers) Conviction rates (which vary massively depending on crime) even out to about 4%, or 2% of total known crimes. (x) Worth noting: Generally, violent crimes have higher clearance and conviction rates. For murder, the conviction rate is around 60% while larceny-theft can dip below 1% of reported crimes. (It's generally assumed that the number of known and reported murders is the same, as the NCVS doesn't track it. Because murder victims are bad at filling out surveys.) To recap: Police solve about 4% of crimes reported to them. Meanwhile in your average cop show, you've got a success rate of about 100%. That's a stark difference, even if you take only murder rates of 60%. If you're an average citizen who's the victim of a crime, the most helpful thing the cops will do is file a report you can submit to your insurance.

Forensics & Procedures

I've seen these float around a bit and it's mildly ridiculous. Supposedly they've found a bottle and a protein bar of our killer and will be testing fingerprints and DNA. If those worked flawlessly, they still would only bring up results if the killer has been detained before. Databases of random civilian fingerprints/DNA samples are not kept by law enforcement. These analyses only work by having a point of comparison (and even then fingerprint analysis remains subjective), so they won't actually help finding the culprit, but they would be relevant to confirm the identity of an apprehended suspect and as evidence in an eventual trial. (There is also something called familial DNA which would work if they had a couple of relatives in the system, but that's both a flawed and incredibly time intensive approach. We're talking months of drawing family trees.) Also your average DNA test takes like 24 hours and fingerprint analysis is algorithmically supported now, but still mostly done manually. And both require a clear sample, so good luck with that. Fingerprint might as well be the clerk who sold the bottle. There's an infamous case of a serial killer whose DNA kept being found on crime scenes all Central Europe with no connection to each other. Turned out the Swabs were contaminated during production. There was no serial killer. Quickfire round of unrelated notes: 1) Lie detectors don't detect lies, they detect stress, anyone can trick one with some practice. the guy who popularized their use thought they could detect stress in plants too and that the plants could read his mind. 2) We're not actually sure if all fingerprints are completely unique. 3) Bite mark analysis is a pseudoscience that needs to be removed from criminal and legal proceedings asap. 4) Any algorithmic detections inherit the flaws of their human predecessors. Those are their training data. (That's also how they keep turning up racist)

And as a final note, it's common for the police to not share details on their ongoing investigations. That's just common sense. The only details that get released to the public are ones that could lead to direct hints or vague ones if there's a lot of public attention, to assure everyone there is progress. For similar reasons, while everyone and their grandma has put together the motive from the bullet casings, cops can't actually go out and confirm that. It's like how Bulbapedia has to say Flamigo appears to be based on a flamingo. Contrary to the cops, Bulbapedia does not have to carefully watch what data they release that might elicit more sympathy for Flamigo.

Why tho

So after literal decades of copaganda brainwashing, the public perception of crime and punishment is heavily skewed. We've been told over and over that cops can catch any criminal in a matter of a 60 minute episode, max. And that's by design. Aside from the image polishing, copaganda is a deterrent. If you're convinced you'll be caught after committing a crime, you wouldn't commit it, right? You don't wanna go to jail. And the bad guys always get what they deserve on TV, no matter how smart they are. You're not gonna risk that, are you?

That's why we keep using lie detectors, that's why the news are full of arrests being made constantly, that's why cop shows get so much support from the police. That's also why we keep pouring money into policing. Part of it, at least. We've built a police force that isn't about solving crimes. If that was priority, we'd invest more into forensics and labs to keep up with the demand of samples that need to be analyzed. Instead, we built a police force that gets new tech gadgets and military gear. It's an arms race against the general public that isn't even running. We take cops and we give them paranoia, weapons, justifications for violence, and targets to brutalize. I don't have to remind you of the riot gear and responses to peaceful protests. The police isn't your friend and helper. You must fear them. Fear their superior intellect, fear their crime solving abilities, fear the high tech arsenal at their disposal. Fear them so much, you won't even think of doing a crime unless you're rotten to the core. And if someone's rotten to the core, then surely the violence is justified.

But that's also why this guy in particular is so dangerous. They've built up this image of being near infallible (to anyone who never actually interacted with police proceedings, at least) and being able to stop any threat, catch any criminal. And yet, this guy shot someone in broad daylight, in the juristiction of the country's largest police department, and he's currently getting away with it.

[shu-of-the-wind]

END the copaganda that not giving your DNA to your cops makes you more suspicious.

END the copaganda that if you don't tell your side of the story to a cop you're going to be arrested.

END the copaganda that not allowing the cops into your home without a warrant is criminal behavior.

END the copaganda that not allowing cops to interrogate you without an attorney present is inherently more suspicious.

END the copaganda that if you don't speak to a cop that stops you on the street, you are breaking a law.

this is all bullshit and it is framed in a way that destroys your constitutional right to be protected from unreasonable intrusions into your life and into your home. it is a way for cops and the law enforcement system to intrude on your privacy in ways they are legally not allowed to, by making YOU feel like YOU will be seen as a bad guy for standing up for your rights.*

demand to see a warrant. if they stop you on the street, ask if you're being detained and if so, why. do not speak to cops without your attorney present. that is WHY miranda rights exist. you are ALLOWED to keep your mouth shut.

*ALL of this is stuff that will be more dangerous to do if you are black or brown or visibly trans or queer or disabled. if at ANY POINT you feel that you are going to be at risk of harm for doing these things, you are NOT at fault for complying. your rights are important but they are not more important than preserving your life. stay safe out there y'all.

[dragons-and-pandas]

Just found out aziracrow won the old man yaoi poll over valvert. Inconsolable. Sorry that single mindedly chasing one man for decades and being haunted by the spectre of what you yourself know is injustice and being killed by forgiveness isn’t enough for u guys.

[secretlyofthefeywild]

no bc this is the shittest "evidence" like wtf. "he used to play among us and got nervous when the police questioned him, obviously he's the killer" like be so fr rn.

i still give it above even odds that the guy they caught is just a scapegoat because the NYPD didnt want to drag the manhunt over the holidays, or worse (for their image), call it quits

[elinordash]

SHERLOCK HOLMES (1984 - 1994) ↳ 4x02 | The Devil’s Foot

[weirdw00d]

❗📰WANTED📰❗

A criminal by the name of Slim Woody has been breaking and entering homes to raid the fridges of unsuspecting home owners! Formerly so skinny that they escaped their jail cell by squeezing through the bars, they've since packed on hundreds of pounds of weight in attempt to evade the law by becoming unrecognizable. They've even resorted to eating butter to maximize their gains! This footage was obtained by one of their victims and has been released to the general public to help law enforcement find them. They are WANTED dead or alive stuffed or empty!

(New silly roleplay clip live everywhere, check my pinned to find it!)