#reserve the police

[the-happy-man]

“These are routine police encounters that escalate to a killing,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, a data scientist and policy analyst who founded Mapping Police Violence and provided 2022 data to the Guardian. “The reduction in the conversation around police violence does not mean that this issue is going away. What’s clear is that it’s continuing to get worse, and that it’s deeply systemic.”

Sinyangwe noted a Denver program where clinicians and medics have responded to thousands of mental health calls instead of police, and have not had to call police for backup. Some cities have restricted traffic stops for minor violations. And California has decriminalized jaywalking and other minor infractions that advocates say have no relation to public safety but are used to profile certain communities.

[bloom161]

This might be a hot take but can Mrs.Flood just be Mrs.Flood who knows what a TARDIS is cause she lived in London all her life, where alien shit is happening at least once a year and is always accompanied by the doctor and a strange police box.

Yk the doc aren’t as subtle as they think they are, word gets around as to what the box actually is.

[the-happy-man]

"But the rest of the law remained intact and it continues to be used against Black Lives Matter protesters."

On this day, 18 January 2015, socialist Black Lives Matter protester Maile Hampton was arrested in Sacramento, California for “felony lynching”, for attempting to prevent a fellow demonstrator being arrested. The term “lynching” is commonly understood to refer to extrajudicial murders – usually in reference to the thousands of Black people murdered by racist whites. But in California law the term referred to attempting to break anyone out of police custody. Widespread outrage at the application of a law supposedly introduced to protect Black people from lynching against a Black person protesting against present-day lynching led to the charge being dropped and the law later being renamed to remove the word “lynching”. But the rest of the law remained intact and it continues to be used against Black Lives Matter protesters. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2189528917898913/?type=3

[paula-of-christ]

Please pray for the repose of the souls of all those who have passed today in car accidents. I passed by a motorcycle accident today (of which emergency personnel were already there) of a man who had been thrown from his vehicle and they were no longer performing medical intervention.

[msnihilist]

It does concern me somewhat that Luigi Mangione apparently suffers from chronic back pain, and now he's being held without bail. I doubt that comfort is much of a priority for the police.

[onequeerhuman]

i’ve noticed more people care about these issues on here, so i encourage ppl to speak out about MMIWG&2S more wherever u can!! I have family who are victims, and I know it’s a very difficult, very sensitive topic, but things are only getting worse- please, i encourage you to look into it- even just doing a quick little google search, it’s important and more people need to be speaking up.

[oopdeathnote]

So, if Light never found the Death Note, would he still turn into a killer? I mean he would still follow his father and become a cop. Would he become like Vic Mackey?

That's a divisive question. I don't think he would naturally become a killer: when Light first used the Death Note he did so under the impression it was a prank, and he was throw-up-in-an-alley horrified after he confirmed the death had been his doing, like his first death was largely accidental. I don't think Light would ever cross the line into being a murderer by himself, because he's Light Yagami and he's the most perfect little boy, and perfect little boys don't murder people.

That said, I guess whether or not you think he'd end up working within the system to mete out vigilante justice as a police officer probably depends on whether or not you think he could actually physically kill someone without the separation of the Death Note? Light contemplates doing it a few times, but he's never actually forced to, and this is totally unsubstantiated, but I feel like Light doesn't have the guts to kill someone with a gun, with all the gore that entails. The heart attacks, which were Light's primary method of killing, are very act-of-God-ish, so it puts quite a lot of distance between himself and the people he kills.

I think if he were to end up a murderous cop, I think he'd first need to be in a situation where he was forced to kill (a la Garett Jacob Hobbs from Hannibal), I don't think Light is naturally a murderer just because it goes against his principles and his image of himself.

Thank you for the ask though anon! Probably not the best answer, but I'm not much a character-analyst lol

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/deep-state/the-danger-is-real-the-deep-states-plot-to-destabilize-the-nation-is-working

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[usauthoritarianism]

OK So Context

I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.

Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.

I let the research balloon. There's just so much.

Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.

Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.

Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Cop City moves to quash FOIA via UGA

“If a private entity is contracting with or performing functions on behalf of the government, then its records are subject to public records requests,” Ramsingh said about the case. “The entire purpose of the [Atlanta police] foundation is to support the Atlanta police department, so it would be hard to find records that wouldn’t be subject to open records law.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/university-of-georgia-cop-city-lawsuit

[the-happy-man]

One senior officer, who expressed concern at the existence of rape myths in their force, told academics: “We massively pre-judge the credibility of the victim. We investigate the victim more than the offence itself.”

[ssaseaprince]

Will's dad calls him Billy

[crispyliza]

You've heard of mansplaining, now get ready for: dadsplaining!

Example: you're filling out paperwork and your dad sits next to you and tells you the answers to questions like: what is your name and last name (he also helps you spell it), when is your birthday, when did you graduate high scool etc.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"INDIANS BAN MOUNTIES FROM THEIR FALL FAIR," Toronto Star. October 16, 1933. Page 1. --- Detachment of Three Officers to Present Themselves at Moraviantown ---- Special to The Star London, Ont.. Oct. 16. - Word comes from Moraviantown that the Indians are in defiant insurrection against the Royal Canadian Mounted police. This afternoon the Indian fair opened there for a four-day show and nailed to the masthead is a formally adopted resolution in which President Emmerson Snake and his fellow directors declare the place closed to the "Mounties."

Inasmuch as one of the routine duties of the police is to visit and supervise all Indian fairs, including Moraviantown, a detachment of three officers will present themselves this afternoon and if necessary storm the bulwarks.

The trouble is an aftermath of last week's investigation of charges against the Indian agent