#policing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #policing, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/87841/ ‘Kids can’t go to school because of expected DISORDER’ | Middlesbrough schools FORCED to close early #Analysis #BreakingNews #ChildrenSafety #ConservativeParty #conservatives #CrimeInMiddlesbrough #ExpectedDisorder #GBNews #GBNewsLive #GBN #KidsGoingToSchool #MattVickers #Middlesbrough #MiddlesbroughCrime #MiddlesbroughDisorder #news #NewsUpdate #policing #politics #PublicSafety #Reports #SchoolSafety #ShadowPolicingMinister #StreetDisorder #uk #WorldNews
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If you are unable to comment on body cameras over Zoom, it is still valuable to send your thoughts to City Council via email.
You can email the City Clerk at
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Somerville residents concerned about deployment of police body cameras without civilian oversight, please consider giving public comment at Legislative Matters meeting at 6pm on September 8th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WRdRHrGRTFC7GZuN1__1VATo provide comment, register for the Zoom meeting, join the call at 6pm, and when the body cameras hearing begins, raises your hand to request to speak.
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The critical importance of good policy on police body cameras is made extremely clear following recent events in #CambridgeMA. On August 21, the Cambridge Police Department, who already have body cameras, fatally shot 64-year-old William Woodworth near Central Square.
Woodworth's family are fighting hard to get access to the body camera footage, but the District Attorney is insisting that the footage not be released yet.
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Mayor Wilson would like to believe that Somerville residents are enthusiastically supportive of putting body cameras on police regardless of the policy surrounding use of the cameras.
This is why it is important not to let the September 8th hearing pass without significant public turnout, emphasizing that policy matters and that we insist on a civilian oversight body with real authority over the police department.
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It's very frustrating that Somerville is moving forward with an expensive (estimaed $400,000 per year) body cameras program without waiting for the hearing that residents have requested and have a right to.
As a reminder, Mayor Wilson's justification for urgency was that he didn't want to miss out on a quarter million dollar grant to cover the initial purchase, a sum that will be quickly outpaced by the ongoing costs of the program.
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It should be noted that the comments at the July 27th meeting against deployment of police body cameras included several activists who have been advocating for police oversight since 2020. Meanwhile, a large fraction of the comments in favor of cameras were members of the city's own past task forces on policing.
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At the Special Meeting on body cameras that Mayor Wilson called on July 27th, about two thirds of the public comments were in opposition to approval of the policy documents and/or in opposition to initiating an expensive body cameras program at this time.
Nevertheless, the Council voted to approve the policy and to accept the small federal grant for purchase of the cameras (which required that the cameras be purchased by the end of August).
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To give comments on police body cameras in Somerville, please use this link to sign up for the Zoom meeting, and raise your hand to request a chance to speak:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WRdRHrGRTFC7GZuN1__1VAIn particular, it's important to emphasize that a civilian oversight body should exist *before* police body cameras are deployed.
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There are some important updates on the #SomervilleMA police body cameras situation.
On Tuesday September 8th, the Legislative Matters Committee will be holding the public hearing on body-worn cameras that 89 residents requested by petition. If you're concerned about the issue, it'd be great if you can sign up to give comment.
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CW: CW: police violence, state violence
The astounding naïveté with which so many people, especially in Western countries, regard the police as the good guys is honestly quite something.
There seems to be this deeply ingrained fairy tale that the police are fundamentally benevolent people in nice uniforms who exist to protect us, and that whenever they hurt, intimidate, detain, or even kill someone, there must automatically have been a Very Good Reason™.
No. They are an institution with a monopoly on legitimate state violence.
Sometimes they abuse that power. Sometimes they enforce profoundly unjust laws. Sometimes they protect the existing order rather than the people who are suffering under it (because that is what the police is actually for!)
And the uniform does not magically turn coercive power into moral virtue.
If your understanding of police begins and ends with “they're the good guys,” perhaps you should read a little history.#Police #Policing #StateViolence #Power #HumanRights #CivilRights #SocialJustice #Antifascism #ACAB
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/eventually-everyone-will-be-called-a-terrorist
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And maybe stop destroying things you dont understand; ebikes, political protest, trans people
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I was typing, and my editor flagged it as a ‘Strong resemblance to AI text’. Kinda bollox. And, so I rant on my blog – 1984, Minority Report. Even Handmaid's Tale. Handmade, a tale.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/19/i-am-a-language-model/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #psychology #writing #ai #policing #ethicalAI #intrusion #culture #blog #podcast #language #critique #languagedetection #bollocks #culture #conformity #obey
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Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
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#PalestineAction #protesters may have been wrongly arrested
7 page guidance document from Counter #Terrorism #Policing outlines advice to #police offers around showing support for the group
The guidance specifically states acts such as holding #placards stating “Genocide in #Palestine, Time to Take Action” are not be grounds for arrest
#KierStalin #PoliceState #genocide #WarCrimes #DemocracyNOW #justice #freedom #FreeSpeech #UK #authoritarian #Orwellian #ThoughtPolice
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Indigenous-Led Movement Against Austerity Is Gaining Momentum in Ecuador
The video is shocking. The footage is low quality, shot from above and behind the scene: A group of people run from state security forces up an empty highway at full speed. Four people are carrying a limp body. But under the fire of gunshots, tear gas and police sirens, three of the people drop the body and flee. The other man, in a blue jacket, kneels beside the body, and holds onto him.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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Hello Fediverse! 👋 / Hallo Fediverse!
I’m Christian Wickert, Professor of Sociology & Criminology and editor of SozTheo.com (EN) & SozTheo.de (DE).On SozTheo I publish resources on crime, deviance, policing, punishment & social control – for students, researchers & anyone curious about society.
Here I’ll share updates & key concepts from #Criminology / #Sociology.
#Criminology #Sociology #Deviance #Policing #Punishment #SocialControl #SocialScience #AcademicMastodon #Introduction
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Just because uninvolved drivers and bystanders who become victims in high-speed police chases are often innocent doesn't mean they can easily pursue legal action for injuries or deaths.
#CityOfHouston #CriminalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Police #Texas #CarChases #HoustonPoliceDepartment #PoliceChases #PoliceReform #Policing
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"[M]ost people don’t know what Pride is about. The anguish, and the hurt, and the reason why Pride started in the first place—it was an anti-cop event. Look, yes—I know there are trans police officers. You have Black people who are police officers, and women police officers. All that’s cute, but guess what: It’s blue first, your other allegiances second. Once you get on that blue, child, it goes straight through to your brain, dyes your brain blue, and you’re no longer whoever the fuck you were before. So no, they don’t need to be there. That’s where their loyalty lies. So stay the fuck away from me."
—Miss Major
["Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary" by Toshio Meronek]
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
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"I paint my face and put on a show, but my true art is opening hearts and minds. I'm a walking revolution, honey!" —Marsha P. Johnson
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
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Why this Canadian mayor resigned from her city’s police board
#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #Ontario #OntarioPolitics #onpoli #Toronto #TorontoPolitics #topoli #Mississauga #PeelRegion #policing #PoliceReform
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Like other surveillance tools before them, quadrupedal robots are being pushed by Los Angeles’ well-funded police lobbyists.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjky5m/the-lapd-wants-robot-dogs-how-did-we-get-here
#Policing #robotdogs #BostonDynamics #killerrobots #LAPD #LosAngeles #losangelespolice #losangelespolicedepartment #stoplapdspyingcoalition -
#Policing the #PoliceState:
- Do #prisoners really make #ToiletWine?
- 10 of the 🌎's worst #prisons
- The #DeathRow #inmate #Oprah thinks is #innocent
- #Trenton #NewJersey #police hung a toy #monkey on #Black #detective's desk
- Driver #asleep at the wheel, runs over 25 #LA #sheriff & #police #recruits
- #LAPD commander tipped off #CBS about #SexualAssault #investigation
- #Restraints increase risk of sudden #death by #asphyxiation
