#reform the police

[nando161mando]

Rehabilitation, not Devastation. Fuck The Police.

[scottguy]

That explains a lot.

We need to screen out the morons who are racists and bullies. If we require a two year degree to be a cop, we'll get smarter cops who are more humane.

Cops now are just a para military organization with a very short boot camp.

Cops are NOT soldiers. All soldiers are trained to do... is kill.

Make that make sense

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Gloria Oladipo at The Guardian:

Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported. The US justice department also confirmed the database’s elimination in a statement issued online. “User agencies can no longer query or add data to the NLEAD,” the statement read. “The US Department of Justice is decommissioning the NLEAD in accordance with federal standards.”

A weblink that hosted the database is no longer active. The police misconduct database, the first of its kind, was not publicly available. Law enforcement agencies could use the NLEAD to check if an officer applying for a law enforcement position had committed misconduct, such as excessive force. Several experts celebrated the NLEAD when Joe Biden first created it by an executive order issued in 2023, the third year of his presidency. [...] But Trump has since rescinded Biden’s executive order as part of an ongoing effort to slash federal agencies down. Trump himself initially proposed the database after the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, months before Biden defeated him in the presidential election that November.

Trump Administration shuts down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), a vital tool that knowns about police misconduct.

[scottguy]

Also funny how police departments often refuse to or delay releasing body cam footage because they know it makes them look terrible.

Departments just tolerate it and make the taxpayers pay for the cops' unconscionable choices.

#ACAB

Funny how the cameras turn off right before someone is murdered.

[rotisseries]

[scottguy]

These police actions have nothing to do with public safety or protecting property and everything to do with silencing dissent of any sort.

The police brutality at these protests really disturbs me.

[ramsesja]

Evidence shows that better training doesn't lead to better officers. It is a persistent myth and narrative that prevents real, necessary reform when it comes to policing and public safety.

[sasucaty]

Police are now arresting online teachers and musicians who made songs supporting the students protests. It's so absurd that no one has the freedom of speech to support what's right anymore.

[nullnvoid911]

French RAID police stand guard during anti-pension reform protests on the Boulevard Montebello in Lille.

Pascal Bonniere / La Voix du Nord, June 29, 2023

[nando161mando]

Cops are class traitors

[wreckingball4good]

We are witnessing a state-created moral panic backlash against calls to defund the police that rivals anything we talk about in similar terms and will have similarly dire consequences for the population. https://www.curbed.com/2023/06/atlanta-cop-city-design-architecture-tactical-village.html

[soberscientistlife]

[liberalsarecool]

Sensible police reform. #BlackLivesMatter

[hauntedtapeworm]

I’m such a Gemini 💝