#reform the police

[nando161mando]

Rehabilitation, not Devastation. Fuck The Police.

[2001mysaa]

[elmislost]

71 Commands in 13 Minutes: When Tyre Nichols Couldn't Comply With Impossible Orders, Police Assaulted Him

Police officers unleashed a barrage of commands that were confusing, conflicting and sometimes even impossible to obey, a New York Times analysis of footage fr...

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How sick do you have to be...? Anyone trying to become an officer anywhere in the U.S. should have to go through extensive psychological testing in order to be granted the power they have over every citizen in their jurisdiction. This is disgusting, and happens because this position becomes a calling to very, very sick and control hungry people, some are even sociopaths.

[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

[alwaysbewoke]

[muffinlevelchicanery]

Reform is not the answer

[reasonsforhope]

"The New York City Council voted to ban most uses of solitary confinement in city jails Wednesday [December 20, 2023], passing the measure with enough votes to override a veto from Mayor Eric Adams.

The measure would ban the use of solitary confinement beyond four hours and during certain emergencies. That four hour period would be for "de-escalation" in situations where a detainee has caused someone else physical harm or risks doing so. The resolution would also require the city's jails to allow every person detained to spend at least 14 hours outside of their cells each day.

The bill, which had 38 co-sponsors, was passed 39 to 7. It will now go to the mayor, who can sign the bill or veto it within 30 days. If Mayor Adams vetoes the bill, it will get sent back to the council, which can override the veto with a vote from two-thirds of the members. The 39 votes for the bill today make up 76% of the 51-member council. At a press conference ahead of the vote today [December 20, 2023], Council speaker Adrienne Adams indicated the council would seek [a veto] override if necessary.

For his part, Mayor Adams has signaled he is indeed considering vetoing the bill...

The United Nations has said solitary confinement can amount to torture, and multiple studies suggest its use can have serious consequences on a person's physical and mental health, including an increased risk of PTSD, dying by suicide, and having high blood pressure.

One 2019 study found people who had spent time in solitary confinement in prison were more likely to die in the first year after their release than people who had not spent time in solitary confinement. They were especially likely to die from suicide, homicide and opioid overdose.

Black and Hispanic men have been found to be overrepresented among those placed in solitary confinement – as have gay, lesbian and bisexual people.

The resolution in New York comes amid scrutiny over deaths in the jail complex on Rikers Island. Last month, the federal government joined efforts to wrest control of the facility from the mayor, and give it to an outside authority.

In August 2021, 25-year-old Brandon Rodriguez died while in solitary confinement at Rikers. He had been in pre-trial detention at the jail for less than a week. His mother, Tamara Carter, says his death was ruled a suicide and that he was in a mental health crisis at the time of his confinement.

"I know for Brandon, he should have been put in the infirmary. He should have been seeing a psychiatrist. He should have been being watched," she said.

She says the passage of the bill feels like a form of justice for her.

"Brandon wasn't nothing. He was my son. He was an uncle. A brother. A grandson. And he's very, very missed," she told NPR. "I couldn't save my son. But if I joined this fight, maybe I could save somebody else's son." ...

New York City is not the first U.S. city to limit the use of solitary confinement in its jails, though it is the largest. In 2021, voters in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, passed a measure to restrict solitary confinement except in cases of lockdowns and emergencies. The sheriff in Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago, has said the Cook County jail – one of the country's largest – has also stopped using solitary confinement...

Naila Awan, the interim co-director of policy at the New York Civil Liberties Union, says that New York making this change could have larger influence across the country.

"As folks look at what New York has done, other larger jails that are not quite the size of Rikers will be able to say, 'If New York City is able to do this, then we too can implement similar programs here, that it's within our capacity and capabilities," Awan says. "And to the extent that we are able to get this implemented and folks see the success, I think we could see a real shift in the way that individuals are treated behind bars.""

-via NPR, December 20, 2023

[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.

[autismvampyre]

the fucking arrogance and blatant nationalism in the way europeans declare polce brutality a "US problem" as if americans are the only people with a corrupt system

my leftist swedish mother actually agrees with ACAB with the addendum that it's only the Americans, we're not like that here

let the brutal forced used on greta thunberg, a swedish teenager protesting climate change, by dutch police be a testament to the lie of european "democracy" and how it is democracy in name and nothing else.

let the immigrant kids who are brutalized, humiliated and oppressed every day in sweden by cops who "protect and serve" serve as a reminder of how incredibly flawed we are.

let the 700% increase in death by cops in sweden in the last ten years show us how we are no better than the americans we condemn.

we are not better. you are buying into propaganda if you think this doesn't apply to your country too

[yaoigagarinsblog]

What started as a quota reform movement has now become a fire, an onrush against the oppressors, a fight to reclaim our voice, our freedom of speech. The autocratic regime has been leeching on our blood for more than decade. Now it's time to reclaim our rights, now it's a fight to restore democracy in Bangladesh. Please keep your eyes on us. Fascists have deployed their dogs and hounds to push us back. Five protestors have already been killed. The students are being cornered, massacred. And we don't have a functioning neutral state to appeal to. The national media, being under the fascists paychecks, are spewing only propaganda and misinformation. We look up to you know, the look. It's as if we're all alone, and neither the movement nor the massacre will stop anytime soon. So, again, please keep an eye on us. All we're asking for is visibility. All eyes on Bangladesh.

[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.

[liberalsarecool]

Painful lessons we must learn. No changing the system without complete understanding.

[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.

[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