#to redirect from their racism to their feelings and thus away from accountability

[tododeku-or-bust]

@fairuzfan if/when that blogger that was rude and racist to you about "rest in power" is called out later, they may try to use the "well [fairuz] was nice to me and that's why I understood it!" As a roundabout way to say that "if [Black] people were nice to me I wouldn't be racist" as a self victimization tactic. Don't fall for the okey doke, my friend.

[peakwealth]

WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY TO BE DONE (and paid for)

Defund the police?





 A slow day in the heart of Bogotá, Colombia (2013)

I've been meaning to return to the tantalizing issue of 'defunding' the police. It has lingered in the news all summer, tracking the Black Lives Matter movement as it spread around much of the world.

When you stop to think about it, the drive to defund the police must seem, to many people, a non-starter. Not a smart idea, too impulsive and ideological. For others it is long overdue. They recognize it as a revolutionary spark, a signal that the time has come not only to rein in the security forces but to rethink the social order, the structure of authority and its implementation.

Let's look at the first reaction, the one of prudent disbelief.

In essence, it says: don't mess with the cops. We live in an increasingly disorderly, embittered world where things will get out of hand sooner or later, or, as they say in French, they will overflow. Who would want to fiddle with emergency services, least of all the constabulary, in such unstable times? Who would want to begrudge them their rights and privileges when things go wrong and they are actually needed.

Even at times when nothing goes wrong, our fraying social fabric, the growing insecurity and belligerence in many corners of society will bring about situations where security forces are called for. Short of sending in the army, the police then act as circuit breakers of last resort. At least, that's the theory.

But that has little to do with police brutality.

Let me say that I sometimes feel a touch of sympathy for individual cops who face prosecution after a public outcry over acts of police violence. What the victims perceive as 'misconduct' or unwarranted force may seem nothing more than appropriate to the police officers applying it. Even when the police ‘cross the line', it probably is, in their own frame of reference, what society condones and what the victims deserve. A random correction in real time. Criminal charges can therefore appear a little unfair since the use of force is part of the playbook of policing. It can easily be argued that the offending officers were only doing what was expected from them, implicitly or even explicitly.

What this also means is that police brutality cannot be dismissed as a rotten-apple issue, it is systemic. Nor is it essentially an American problem, it exists to varying degrees all over the world. I'm not thinking here of countries where 'institutions are weak' (to use that most diplomatic phrase), where police brutality is taken for granted, where torture and extrajudicial killings have become a form of de facto law enforcement (like in Mexico, the Philippines, Honduras, Egypt, Brazil, Syria...).

I'm not even thinking of, say, Belarus or of India where a father and his son both died recently while in police custody. Their offence was not to have observed coronavirus restrictions. Nor am I thinking of the unforgettable footage of an American psychopath cop itching to blow away an unarmed suspect who was lying on the floor of a hotel corridor, in no position to resist arrest. And then he pulled the trigger.

A lot of similarly dramatic footage has accumulated over the years since body cams and dash cams were introduced, notably in the USA. They show both overt racism and the errors of judgment made by nervous cops who did what came naturally to them when the option of lethal force was available.

Pop, pop, pop and another 'offender' goes down. It can look and sound quite anticlimactic in the videos, cursory, except that death is irreversible.

Gun violence is so common in the USA it should be no surprise that police officers make use of the weapons put at their disposal when confronted with threats, real or imagined. Some opt to open fire to be on the safe side. In most instances, they act with a reasonable degree of assurance that they will remain immune if not from prosecution itself, then from serious sanction. They are, after all, doing their job and everyone knows that police work is not for the faint of heart (*).

No, I am thinking of countries where guns are rarely drawn and where some of the trust between the public and the police has survived. Even there, the essential bond between the citizens and police, based on consent by the former, and on the impartiality and accountability by the latter, is fraying.

Too often the police are out of step when citizens are treated not as beneficiaries of a public service but as an underclass of dissidents who haven't figured out what the police are for and whom they ultimately serve. The same cops who one moment have nothing more urgent to do than redirect traffic, can quickly turn into warriors in black combat gear, robocops at the command of an unchanging social order.

Fatal misunderstandings between police and the victims of police brutality typically occur after the 'offenders' fail to obey a mundane order (to disperse, not to move, to step out of the car, whatever). The same basic issue of authority and legitimacy is also at the heart of confrontations between police and demonstrators who feel they have done nothing wrong, yet risk arrest or worse for refusing to obey a 'lawful' order that, to them, lacked legitimacy.

In some parts of the world the distrust has spiraled into a state of animosity where the police are no longer perceived as civil servants but as public militias with an open mandate to confront and to repress. They are estranged from the communities they're supposed to serve, especially minorities, meaning non-white and non-middle-class. The rubbery meaning of the word 'minorities' is well known, equated with those on the wrong side of the track because of origin, poverty, race, gender or political ideas - the usual barriers of discrimination and the triggers of police bias.

On the other hand it is true that brutality is not a one-way street and that the police encounter violence that is not of their choosing, in crisis situations, when trying to contain mobs of hooligans or rioting drunks craving violence.

Whatever the cause, things are made worse by the creeping militarization of many police forces, something that started in the US but has had a ripple effect elsewhere. It has led to a one-sided arms race, ratcheting up the drama of routine police work while devouring ever more public funds.

Which brings us to...(de)funding.

Money is one of the basic requisites of armed conflict. Without financing, there is no war. As the relationship between police and citizenry turns more conflictual, would it make sense to de-escalate the conflict through that most effective of administrative means, cutting the budget, or redirecting some of it to social services?

To figure out if the police are overfunded, or if there are simply too many of them, it is necessary to rethink what the police are for. Have their attributions drifted too far from simply safeguarding the peace and maintaining 'order'? What should be on the police to-do list in an open, democratic society?

- 1 Application of the rule of law.

- 2 Peacekeeping, public order and safety

- 3 Prevention and repression of crime

- 4 Dealing with public disturbances

- 5 Assistance in emergencies

Items 1, 2 and 5 do not, in principle, require weapons, body armour or anxiogenic tactics. These functions are either administrative in nature or deal with everyday control and assistance (e.g. traffic and road safety, neighbourhood patrols, social problems, drug overdoses...). They can safely be defanged, demilitarized and thus defunded. Indeed, several countries retain unarmed policing for routine duties (most of the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Fiji...). It does take the drama and the testosterone down a notch or two.

But that is the easy part, the non-confrontational side of things. Too often the police operate on a logic that is adversarial, not based on consent but on confrontation. Violence can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy and guns make it worse. The more body armour and weapons are routinely on display (beltfuls of guns, tasers, pepper sprays; water cannon; tear gas...), the greater the assumption of violence. The stakes are raised. The message is not engagement, de-escalation or even deterrence, but enforcement. In the end violence is expected, it is part of the show.

*     *     *

We live in a world full of worry and obsessed with 'security'. The police are part of that obsession. An expensive part. Defunding them may work as a shock therapy but clearly more can and should be done to reform the whole security apparatus.

If the current modus operandi of the police is no longer acceptable, then policy makers must re-imagine what the cops are for and how much legal latitude they should enjoy while discharging their duties.  

Beyond changing the laws and regulations that define and govern policing, the job itself could be dedramatized through a number of measures, including disarming where feasible, stricter rules of engagement, extended training and much higher recruiting standards for what is a demanding and often delicate job. In many instances that would mean fewer socially conservative macho men in uniform.

That would be a start. But it will take more than that, more than a bit of defunding to bring police behaviour in line with the legitimate expectations of the communities they are supposed to serve. The whole playbook of policing needs a fundamental rewrite. Too many cops have demonstated they need messing with.

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(*) 554 fatal shootings by American police officers were registered by the US Centers for Disease Control in 2017. Other statistics, such as the number of deaths in police custody, vary.

[stylish-alastor]

Abyssmalsavior/Azurefiend/Demifiend-Hitoshura/Kashima-Naokishin | Crownedclowngirl | Glowingibyss | Loveismysword+  Masterpost [DIAMOND EDITION]

REPOST TIME! Since Tumblr is a piece of shit and made all the links on the original post defunct as soon as I hit Save on it, after I took an exhausting amount of time fixing and re-testing what links I could get to. 

soft edit: Apparently the links in the post are showing up now, strikethroughs and all. ... Yeah, I guess you can just head to the OP and reblog that. I’ll just keep this here.

Cursory reading before I go into this a little further, as some people have covered evidence of this individual’s antics in their respective dealings with her.

[ Amendment note: due to deactivations, archives, url switches, or a combination of these situations, some links have been struck out to show that the post source no longer exists and was not reblogged or preserved in any capacity (my bad!). They will otherwise remain as they are, but with additional links. The links provided are separated from the old links with a || symbol. 

Also, anony.ws got shut down and the Tumblr meta redirect otherwise leads to malware or something, so I advise just... not trusting any anony.ws links at all on this post until I can find the replacements for the images.

The links near the bottom quoting abyssmalsavior and her many antics will not be struck out, however, as they are either direct quotes from her, from people that have dealt with her and their assessment of her behavior, or otherwise describe the intent of the post. ] @terminusvitae​ [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ] || [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ], [ 11 ], [ 12 ], [ 13 ], [ 14 ], [ 15 ], [ 16 ] @thespellweaver​ [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ], [ 5 ] || [ 6 ], [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ]

@temen-ni-gru  [ START HERE ], [ THEN HERE ], [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ] || [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ], [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ], [ 11 ], [ 12 ], [ 13 ], [ 14 ], [ 15 ], [ 16 ], [ 17 ], [ 18 ], [ 19 ], [ 20 ], [ 21 ], [ 22 ], [ 23 ], [ 24 ], [ 25 ]

@indifferenceismyshield literally the entire blog. check it out. They’re doing the Lord’s work.

And there’s even an Encyclopedia Dramatica page about her bullshit back on DeviantArt close to a decade ago, which she never stops bringing up. DeviantArt, I mean, not ED. if there’s anyone else I might’ve missed, feel free to reblog and add your own links. [ Amendment note: screenshots provided through reblogs of this masterpost, recent evidence, and found evidence of her past dealings have been added to the masterpost. preceded by [a1.#] Ctrl+F a1. to scroll down to them. The previous a0.# points have been unbolded. ] Now, you might be wondering (although I’d hope not), “Wow, how can someone be capable of causing this much trouble with multiple people?”  Simple. She’s a moron that thinks she can get away with paper-thin attempts at catfishing. She vainly tries to attempt separating her main three blogs (crownedclowngirl, abyssmalsavior, and glowingibyss) from each other while keeping CCGs sideblogs (of which soravalentine is obviously part of, as well as ninjaprincessyuffie) and GIs sideblogs (GI a.k.a. dark-mistress-shiro and demoniccielaphantomhive) obvious as hell, but somehow it didn’t occur to her that we can tell they’re the same person, primarily because I can see her IP looking at specific posts I make/reblog just before she responds to them or reacts on any of the aforementioned blogs, even though I made a post this morning highlighting it. I reblogged a post originating from her abyssmalsavior account. These are her anons, posing as “Vincent-mun” (a.k.a. gothic-gunman, a glowingibyss sideblog). This is her IP looking at my post after having specifically gone to the inbox. Timestamps, they work like magic. I made my post almost calling her a brain-dead lemur. This is her IP looking at that post. This is her response, on abyssmalsavior, after exiting specifically from my post’s url to her Reblog page. I reblogged posts from crownedclowngirl on Dec 10th as receipts? Oh look, her IP looking at the posts on my blog, then she got upset about it, or something. That happened on the 18 of November too, come to think of it. Oh shit, turns out I searched all those times the same IP visited my blog-- they happen to be the times either crownedclowngirl and abyssmalsavior had something to say to/about me concerning their own bad behavior which I was keeping track of. Oops. Pray tell, how does she try defending her catfishing? Looking through the archive apparently it involves insisting that “tumblr staff confirmed we don’t have matching IPs” even though I-- you know what? Let’s highlight how stupid that is.  First she makes a post getting pissy about my behavior as if she has any right, and there’s some passing mention about how her grandmother just died, as if she ever really gave a fuck about her grandmother, but I’ll get to that in a moment. There’s mention of crownedclowngirl being physically present with her. As in, they live in the same general area and could visit each other at any given moment. Now, considering archives on Tumblr display posts from left to right, most recent to least recent, this means she said crownedclowngirl was physically in the same place she was, then she reblogs a post from CCG saying “tumblr confirmed we don’t have matching IPs” and the response? “Oh I forgot about that”. The stupidity of that statement is pointed out courtesy of @cambixnisms. Abyssmal and CCG then proceeded to have a conversation with each other by posting/reblogging each other about personal things instead of talking to the other person.  It’s not even that subtle, she makes 0 effort to make herself act like different people in different places when she outs herself readily by posting personal information. Crownedclowngirl was downloading an MMO when she resided in Matagorda County (in the Bay City area) with her grandmother. Matagorda “comprises the Bay City, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Houston-The Woodlands, TX Combined Statistical Area.” The IP address listed on many screenshots thus far is Humble, Texas. Humble is “a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston metropolitan area.” Assuming that IP address only belonged to Abyssmalsavior, she happened to post about “local news” concerning two day care workers being fired over a transgender student, and the event in question happened in Katy, Texas. Katy is “a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is located in Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties.” Humble and Katy have Harris County in common, and there’s another county separating both those cities from Matagorda. This is what their locations would be if highlighted on [a section of] a map of Texas. She didn’t even try hiding that they’re all in Texas, you all can see that. She doesn’t try typing differently. All three main blogs and their established sides make the same typos. “Forum” instead of “form”: on abyssmal: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ; on ccg: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ”Tows” instead of “those” “Ano” instead of “anon”: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] “Deformation” instead of “defamation”: on abyssmal: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]  ; on glowingibyss: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] ; on crownedclowngirl: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She’s tried halfway owning up to the typos by calling them “common disability markers” on more than one occasion-- the point being, all “three” of these users have dyslexia, in the same form of it that means they type the same way, somehow. Which is funny, because that means someone was being lied to about a disability they all shared and easily copped to having, or they were just covering up for abyssmal and making excuses, which isn’t that hard to assume. Whether or not she has autism or dyslexia, a) that is not an excuse for shitty behavior, as a 30 year old woman she will be held accountable, and b) there’s still obviously something wrong with her when even an anon points it out. How does she get away with talking to a behavior specialist about someone she knows, discussing confidential information, when they’re not even family? Friend or not, that’s not what people in any remotely medical field do. Add to that, the same opinions and the same expression of those opinions. Somehow both abyssmal and crownedclowngirl felt the need to reblog a post about Rose Quartz (from Steven Universe) and compare people turning white characters into POC and increasing representation of POC in media (racebending) to being exactly as harmful as making an obviously big character skinny and erasing the representation associated with it (fat-shaming), then saying racebending is awful because we get less white people, and reacting nastily when someone replies to that.  CCG and GI are both half-Irish and heavily concerned with representation of the Irish in media (especially Disney) and how bad they have it in terms of stereotyping and racism-- really? What are the chances? Calling someone a butt-hurt diva and a bitch? That sounds awfully familiar... Let me get this out of the way, what are the chances both CCG and AS had grandmothers whom were very ill and required frequent/overnight hospital stays and visits, and that AS would start mentioning hers around the same time CCG stopped mentioning hers? Not that abyssmal really cared, seeing as how her first priority when mentioning that her grandmother is dying is “don’t shit talk me” not “I hope she passes on painlessly” or something. Using your grandma as a shield from criticism is bad form no matter how you slice it. Now that we’ve established they’re all the same person, what exactly is she guilty of? Let’s start with literally everything. [a0.1] first and foremost, suicide baiting attempts against both timcxnpy and knifeofshinra. The post warning the fandom against abyssmalsavior is here, and the claim was corroborated by kos through abuse-archives.  “I’m not sorry I just told you your friend isn’t suicidal she’s just a bitch” mistreatment of CSA survivors as told by the anti-anti-wincest blog [a0.2] the mistreatment in more detail: telling survivors of child sexual abuse how to use the term and what to call themselves; “dickhead dumbass sjw”; ”worthless piece of garbage”; defending their calling a rape victim a slut; “no survivor would demean themselves unless they felt they were guilty”; “you aren’t a hater are you? because if you are I was waiting for someone to SINK my claws into tonight ill be happy to rip you a new hole"; “CSA survivor is not a thing and will never BE a thing!”; “CSA IS NOT AN ANAGRAM FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!” ; “CSA as Child sex assault IS NOT A FUCKING THING AND WILL NEVER BE A FUCKING THING GET OVER IT”; as told by glimmeringgoldenearl-- “you condone pedophila, abuse, bad bdsm, and other things”; as told by countess-claudia-phantomhive-- “seriously assuming that everyone on here that says they are victims of Child Sex Abuse is faking it”; as told by shironais-- “you not only support pedophilia, but you also feel the need to insult people who want to share their thoughts with yours”; as told by beauty-trainer-molly-- “You refuse to tag your gross sebaciel and when people ask you nicely you become this bellowing ass hat who insults them and refuses”. “No one of value wants to hear your bullshit” (note: cedfiaisabadship has an faq that explains why that’s a bad ship, as well as the role of pro-pedophilic fiction in grooming children for sexual abuse, and if it wasn’t obvious enough, fiction affects reality.) [!!!] ”TRASHIEST BULLSHIT ENTITLEMENT PIECE OF GARBAGE EVER” [!!!] wtf are nasty grams [!!!] ”whore cam”???  [!!!] false accusations against thespellweaver [a0.3] more false accusations, note that this post was made after she mass-deleted her posts on abyssmalsavior to hide evidence of her wrongdoing.  [a1.1] hopping on an alt blog, fallen-nobility, to tell user tayvents that “YOUR AN ASSHOLE GO TO HELL”, and continuing to tell them to go to hell over a ship. [a1.2] "the wikia is fucked up and your an asshole [...] she owned your ass admit it and move the fuck on! [...] GO CHEW ON YOUR FUCKED UP CRAP YOU MORON” [a0.4] admitting that they would set up a new blog [zoomed in version] separate from abyssmalsavior. proceeds to create the azurefiend blog with the same character, same theme, same writing style, and proceeds to send message as azurefiend, quickly outing herself as abyssmal. [a1.3] created neitherdevilnorman, and also outs herself as abyssmal on ‘norman’ by having the same opinion on ‘statcounter is spyware’/ ‘works completely on spyware’ / ’it’s a Trojan’, and claiming to have blocked blogs that have never spoken to that specific person, as well as having ‘knowledge’ (I use this term loosely) of the drama between temen-ni-gru and abyssmalsavior. tayvents counters the ‘statcounter is spyware’ lie [ here ], [ here ], and [ here ]. The last link is in reply to an anon that calls thespellweaver and stylish-alastor ‘full of shit’. sent herself anons on neitherdevilnorman calling thespellweaver a ‘drama ho’. [a1.4] created the loveismysword blog and pretends to be an anti-hate ‘zen’ blog, only to defend her alt accounts and excuse their gross, homophobic behavior. admits their bias in the following post. outs herself as abyssmal and other alts by continuing to insist that statcounter is a spyware program with no proof, and uses “ghetto” as an insult and defends such word usage by claiming “words have more than one meaning”. also creates the ‘loveismyswordblockedthembecause’ blog to spread more misinformation and lies about the blogs she’s been blocking. callout post by thespellweaver concerning that, and another from thespellweaver countering the claim that ‘statcounter is spyware’. additional counters from putesco, ventus-ven-for-short, and roxas-number-thirteen. [a1.5] created kashima-naokishin, and outed herself as abyssmal using common misspellings found in other alt blogs, as well as carrying drama between mvpsatan and thespellweaver, using SJW as a pejorative term, insisting on “settling timeline issues” concerning DMC and SMT: Nocturne in exactly the same way as all other Naoki blogs in recent time, and again throwing a baseless accusation that “[statcounter] asks for information it’s not supposed to have”. committing this grievous crime against language (also, “my IQ is borderline genius”? lmao that’s 2nd grader “Broly’s power is maximum” levels of bullshit) “excuse you and go to hell” (but “I HAVE NEVER disrespected anyone”??? lol) “private conversations need to remain private”, proceeds to slam someone in public for defending Chaos-mun and claiming “I DON’T OWE YOU JACK SHIT” [a1.6] misgenders Chaos-mun yet again, lies about it by making up conversations, and brings up “old dead drama” by reblogging a post made a month ago harassment of minors and other people flipping shit when someone tells her to respect others and show proper etiquette shitting on SoraKairi shippers (or at least people who are sick of shipping-related Kairi hate) "I owe you nothing more or less than an ass kicking right now” [a0.5] “I confessed that I wanted to shoot one really dirty whore bitch back then [...]  when the universe deals with this bitch its gonna be a fate worse than death and something more evil than I could imagine and I want to see that more than i want to shoot her in her fucking face” [a0.6] “Im gonna indulge because you deserve nothing but the worst spite hatred and vile claws ripping down your back you vain little slut”; [!!!] “WHORE BITCH IS LUCKY I DON’T KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES BECAUSE I’M IN A MOOD TO REND THE FLESH FORM HER BODY FOR THIS THAT’S HOW FUCKING PISSED I AM.[...] maybe the universe will appease me more than physically torturing a little cyberbully dike if I choose to ignore my murderous intentions.” [a0.7] “she is a LYING WHORE who I will see banned for harassing me” [a1.7] for irony, these are her anons harassing people to circumvent them blocking her. on stylish-alastor: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and one added instance of her blog-camping. [a0.8] complaining about mutual only role players  co-opting someone else’s roleplay confession post to victimize herself fatshaming. apparently fanart portraying a character as fat is an insult to people who lose weight. it slaughters a character’s development. but then she can’t decide whether to do that or skinny-shame by calling thin women “twigs” and “stick figures” “people need to stop saying I can’t handle rejection” but the rules on her Yuffie blog give the exact impression that can’t handle rejection or being told ‘no’ wanting demonic ciel to be ageless like Sebastian to "fuck[ing] with every ship hater ever by making shota art on one hand and adult porn videos on the other”, which, well, if she didn’t sound like a pedophile before, she does with that one. [a1.8] using ‘loveismysword’ to continue attacking tayvents over tay’s refusal to do a pedophilic ship. their post addresses tay as “upset user” and paints her as abusive, tay’s counterpost here proves no abusive behavior came from her. Also sent a message to tayvents, “We are not sorry we do not see justification for your actions”, and kept insisting that she was hostile. capslock raging at someone calling Grell trans, later tries to defend it on abyssmal by saying “hackers did it” [a0.9] “GREL isn’t CIS HES GAY YOU PRICK”; “I WILL RUIN YOU BITCH! [...] I RUIN YOU with NO MERCY and NO REGRETS!”; “GO TO HELL I am sick and fucking tired of this crap like I'm gonna listen to a loser prick like you”  in general just being a massive (inexcusably so) knob-end and not even in a remotely satisfying way [a1.9] pretends to be sole arbiter of what constitutes having a panic attack. accuses a user of having faked it -- “that user is not showing aftereffects of a panic attack at all”--  just because they might have been on an alternate blog during said attack, when it’s likely used as a coping method. called out courtesy of an anon here. to compare: lord-kuran, a known alt, called said user a “greedy bitch” and also accused them of lying about their attack.

Signal boost, and if there is anything more to add, please do so in the reblogs. Hopefully this post won’t need more amendments, but I won’t hold my breath.