Excellent new video essay from #FDSignifier on #policing, #prisons, and #abolition

https://youtu.be/SyEwOxp_Iyw?si=aRKC68w6MCc-0Z4M

This fugitive saga must be so embarrassing for the various law enforcement agencies and police forces involved: Escaped murderer on the run in Pennsylvania has changed appearance and slipped out of search areas - Ten days and the authorities have not caught him. Is the guy that good? Or are the cops that bad? Here in #SouthernOregon the #Ashland police department still has not identified or detained the killer of a young man who was beheaded with a samurai sword in broad daylight in the city limits. That happened about ten years ago. Cops are good a showing up, and sometimes that’s good enough. But in many cases, what happens after they show up is no so good, effective or competent. #policing #Cops #LawEnforcement #Fail https://apnews.com/article/a729fb5d39251c2c1c336513e9f5a324

This AP article is astoundingly bad. You'd think they were mainstream Canadian press by the way they parrot the claims of police, politicians, and judges!

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-protests-rico-charges-3177a63ac1bd31a1594bed6584e9f330

#StopCopCity #Policing #CopCityATL #Journalism #AP #AntiRacism #AntiFa #fascism #USPoli

What should happen:

The top officials responsible who were knowingly involved should be charged with crimes.

The lower level people involved should be fired for cause and blacklisted from law enforcement forever.

What will happen:

Slap on the wrist here.

Police unions preventing accountability there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/nyregion/connecticut-false-tickets.html

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #police #policing #union

The latest hit to the Supreme Court’s credibility shows it won’t police itself

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4182046-the-latest-hit-to-the-supreme-courts-credibility-shows-it-wont-police-itself/

#SupremeCourt #Credibility #Policing #SelfRegulation #Judiciary #CourtReform #Politics #News

Not the only on needs to go after what I have just seen 🙄 #phoenix #maricopa #policing the public safety threat is coming from with the halls of justice “Maricopa County Attorney's Office fires prosecutor involved in charging protesters” ,non protestors anybody TBH - https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/07/07/maricopa-county-attorneys-office-fires-april-sponsel/10007385002/

'Revealed: #HomeOffice secretly lobbied for #FacialRecognition ‘spy’ company

Officials reflected #policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/02/home-office-accused-of-secret-lobbying-for-facial-recognition-spy-company

Top cop outlines approach to unauthorised encampments
https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12698:top-cop-outlines-approach-to-unauthorised-encampments&catid=166&Itemid=92
#Southampton #bitternepark #localnews #police #policing

Hello! We are humans, not computers; text strings trigger recognition, cognition triggers meaning. Hello?

There's a gap in the middle (hello) where you can decide accept the interpretation or interrogate it.

See a person expressing, using technology (language and hardware) to convey something, it behoves the attempt to comprehend not intent, but the meaning, which once understood makes the words irrelevant.

#linguistics #wittgenstein #antisemitism #tropes #hatespeech #policing #moderation

New in the SIPR 'Future of Policing' Series, an analysis of Influence Policing in Scotland and the UK.

https://www.sipr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ben-Collier-Influence-Policing-Full-Report.pdf

From
@susansegfault
@Jkjacobus
@hackademic
@lsmwilson , and
@DanielRThomas

#Police #Policing #Communications #Digital

[Edited to add Lydia Wilson's profile link]

New #OpenAccess paper on using the idea of digital ritual to interrogate police use of social media (including those aspects problematic in terms of democratic policing):

Alistair Henry

Digital Ritual: Police-Public Social Media Encounters and 'Authentic' Interaction

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azad036/7249112

British Journal of #Criminology

#Research #SocialMedia #Police #Policing #Sociology #Democracy

New #Ohio #Black #Student #Equity report #campus sheds lights on #discrimination, campus #policing
https://flip.it/37E3yc

Delhi Riots: Court Pulls Up Delhi Police For Filing 'Predetermined' Chargesheets, Suspects Manipulation Of Evidence; Discharges 3

While discharging three men in a case relating to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots, a Delhi Court said it is suspicious that the investigating officer of the Delhi Police “manipulated evidence” and filed chargesheets in a “predetermined and mechanical manner”.

https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/delhi-court-delhi-riots-delhi-police-manipulating-evidence-chargesheets-predetermined-manner-discharges-235493

#DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #DelhiPolice #muslims #law #policing #hindutva #HumanRights #india

Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, Article14 analyses five recent court judgements that reveal how the police followed a similar modus operandi of submitting false evidence in court in an atmosphere of impunity.

https://article-14.com/post/fabricated-evidence-tutored-witnesses-malicious-prosecution-how-police-lied-subverted-path-to-justice-64e580b7a0b1c

#perjury #justice #law #policing #courts #DelhiPolice #DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #UttarPradesh #maharashtra #MadhyaPradesh #assam #delhi #UAPA #india

It's very telling that RTÉ News platforms a Garda representative group's spokesperson and a business lobby org, rather than - say - local stakeholders and community groups, anti-poverty orgs, healthcare workers, etc.

"There's nothing that makes people feel more comfortable thank seeing a Guard [patrolling] on the street."

- Richard Guiney, CEO of Dublin Town, 23 August 2023.

Speak for yourself, Richard.

#Garda #policing #AnGardaSíochána #crime
#Dublin #MastoDaoine

"History teaches us that a Garda 'crackdown' would not create a sustainable reduction in crime."

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0821/1400741-dublin-ireland-crime-violence-gardai-policing-politics/

#Garda #policing #AnGardaSíochána #crime
#Dublin #MastoDaoine

UP Police to Use Hindu Lunar Calendar to Track Crime, Says Spurt in Crime on 'Darker Nights'

In a circular to the police force, UP police chief, Vijay Kumar, said that state-wide analysis of crime shows that there is a rise in crime a week before and after the new moon of the Hindu traditional calendar.

#UttarPradesh #UPPolice #superstitions #crime #policing #hindutva #BJP #india

https://thewire.in/government/up-police-to-use-hindu-lunar-calendar-to-track-crime-claims-spurt-in-crime-on-darker-nights

Madras HC issues notice on petition challenging use of FRT in Tamil Nadu

Madras High Court has issued notice in a petition challenging the installation and deployment of Facial Recognition Technology (“FRT”) across the State.

#TamilNadu #chennai #MadrasHC #FacialRecognition #FRT #privacy #PersonalData #TNGovt #ChennaiPolice #TNPolice #CCTNS #StateSurveillance #HumanRights #policing #IFF #ProjectPanoptic #india

https://internetfreedom.in/tamil-nadu-frt-challenge/

Why am I seeing pickup trucks as police vehicles? Are they hauling around suspects in the truck bed? Is picking up a load of dirt a new critical part of the police job?

Or are these guys insecure because they aren't driving around an F350?

#police #policing #toxicmasculinity

Good article on how the #StopCopCity referendum movement is getting across the finished line: https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/08/20/not-just-cop-city-referendum-team-threatens-the-atlanta-way/ #USPol #GaPol #Atlanta #policing #peoplePower