#policing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #policing, aggregated by home.social.
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Commentary on the #SomervilleMA police #bodyCameras situation, and what the Mayor might be trying to do, from Chris Dwan:
https://csindie.com/somervilles-mayor-is-forcing-a-special-council-meeting-to-vote-on-body-worn-cameras/ -
Here is a generic-language version of the email I just sent to #Somerville Council about police #bodycameras for the 12pm deadline.
https://sandstorm.appux.com/shared/lGlNKXBAaxeBW0-1FUCMihCp9r-K3h6HryHO2vNa4oaIf you are delivering public comment tonight, feel free to adapt ideas in there. It's a complicated issue, and I know that concerns differ.
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Here is a generic-language version of the email I just sent to #Somerville Council about police #bodycameras for the 12pm deadline.
https://sandstorm.appux.com/shared/lGlNKXBAaxeBW0-1FUCMihCp9r-K3h6HryHO2vNa4oaIf you are delivering public comment tonight, feel free to adapt ideas in there. It's a complicated issue, and I know that concerns differ.
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Some folks from the #Somerville DSA group put together these slides with tips on how to prepare public comment for the Special Meeting on #bodycameras tomorrow.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xmdAuHLzOOFhmdxZE3nWoZ7SveOiNW2mstvn7xPvr6Q/edit?usp=sharing -
Some folks from the #Somerville DSA group put together these slides with tips on how to prepare public comment for the Special Meeting on #bodycameras tomorrow.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xmdAuHLzOOFhmdxZE3nWoZ7SveOiNW2mstvn7xPvr6Q/edit?usp=sharing -
On Friday, the Mayor also released this self-congratulatory video about the body camera policy that he's hoping will be passed on Monday: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbJLZDzRjl3/
(apologies for the Instagram link)It's important to note that despite the fact that Mayor Wilson mentions #oversight in the same breath as body cameras, no civilian oversight body exists in #Somerville at this time, and creating one will likely take years.
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On Friday, the Mayor also released this self-congratulatory video about the body camera policy that he's hoping will be passed on Monday: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbJLZDzRjl3/
(apologies for the Instagram link)It's important to note that despite the fact that Mayor Wilson mentions #oversight in the same breath as body cameras, no civilian oversight body exists in #Somerville at this time, and creating one will likely take years.
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From the perspective of those of us trying to provide current information on this issue to the public, it's incredibly frustrating that *after* the Mayor scheduled this Special Meeting (on very short notice), he then proceeded to update the policy that is being discussed at the special meeting, just two business days before the public is supposed to provide comment (and the Council is supposed to vote).
#surveillance #policing #MAPol #SomervilleMA #privacy #Somerville
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From the perspective of those of us trying to provide current information on this issue to the public, it's incredibly frustrating that *after* the Mayor scheduled this Special Meeting (on very short notice), he then proceeded to update the policy that is being discussed at the special meeting, just two business days before the public is supposed to provide comment (and the Council is supposed to vote).
#surveillance #policing #MAPol #SomervilleMA #privacy #Somerville
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Update: On July 23rd, the Mayor introduced a new version of the STIR and TSSUP for police #bodycameras in #Somerville. The new documents clarify a number of policy points, but don't substantively address the concerns we've highlighted in our toolkit above.
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Update: On July 23rd, the Mayor introduced a new version of the STIR and TSSUP for police #bodycameras in #Somerville. The new documents clarify a number of policy points, but don't substantively address the concerns we've highlighted in our toolkit above.
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«Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant sex workers fighting for justice»
👤 Chanelle Gallant 👤 Elene Lam
🗓 2024-11-12
📔 Haymarket Books 🛒 https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project
🌐 Website: https://www.notyourrescueprojectbook.com> A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves.
> In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-trafficking” and lift up migrant sex workers’ organizing in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. In doing so, they make the compelling case that the only effective response to the needs of migrant sex workers must be led by migrants in the sex trade, as they fight for rights, safety, and autonomy.
> Gallant and Lam illustrate how this movement is taking aim at the root causes of violence and abuse: the white supremacist securitization of borders, the criminalization of both migration and sex work, the patriarchial devaluation of women’s labor, and forced displacement due to climate disaster, war, and poverty—all fueled by racial capitalism.
> An indispensable exploration of the relationship between migration and sex work—and the underlying societal conditions they reflect—Not Your Rescue Project is a thorough indictment of the anti-trafficking industry as an engine of criminalization and state violence, and an instructive account of the emancipatory politics already being practiced by migrant sex workers in their organizing. Throughout, Gallant and Lam place migrant sex workers at the center of struggles against border imperialism, carceral states, and capitalism—dispelling a range of poisonous myths and paving the way for deeper alliances across movements with the shared goal of dismantling and abolishing carceralism in all its forms.
#SWBooks #SexWork #Migration #Policing #RescueIndustry #Abolition #AntiTrafficking #Colonialism #Intersectionality #NotYourRescueProject #Book #Books #Bookstodon #November2024
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«Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant sex workers fighting for justice»
👤 Chanelle Gallant 👤 Elene Lam
🗓 2024-11-12
📔 Haymarket Books 🛒 https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project
🌐 Website: https://www.notyourrescueprojectbook.com> A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves.
> In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-trafficking” and lift up migrant sex workers’ organizing in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. In doing so, they make the compelling case that the only effective response to the needs of migrant sex workers must be led by migrants in the sex trade, as they fight for rights, safety, and autonomy.
> Gallant and Lam illustrate how this movement is taking aim at the root causes of violence and abuse: the white supremacist securitization of borders, the criminalization of both migration and sex work, the patriarchial devaluation of women’s labor, and forced displacement due to climate disaster, war, and poverty—all fueled by racial capitalism.
> An indispensable exploration of the relationship between migration and sex work—and the underlying societal conditions they reflect—Not Your Rescue Project is a thorough indictment of the anti-trafficking industry as an engine of criminalization and state violence, and an instructive account of the emancipatory politics already being practiced by migrant sex workers in their organizing. Throughout, Gallant and Lam place migrant sex workers at the center of struggles against border imperialism, carceral states, and capitalism—dispelling a range of poisonous myths and paving the way for deeper alliances across movements with the shared goal of dismantling and abolishing carceralism in all its forms.
#SWBooks #SexWork #Migration #Policing #RescueIndustry #Abolition #AntiTrafficking #Colonialism #Intersectionality #NotYourRescueProject #Book #Books #Bookstodon #November2024
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Where do north Tulsa council candidates stand on public safety, streets and sidewalks? We break it down.
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Where do north Tulsa council candidates stand on public safety, streets and sidewalks? We break it down.
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We're asking #Somerville residents concerned about the rushed process on body camera policy to attend the special meeting on July 27th to insist on proper deliberation.
We have an action toolkit here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ8FOlm5fCo7-s3jubaDq79i0hHhamUw-o7DTxcLpo4GaBwuGvBNPiZy-d_RB6gvKmh6fSivtO42CZ7/pub#bodycameras #policing #surveillance #privacy #MAPol #Somerville MA
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We're asking #Somerville residents concerned about the rushed process on body camera policy to attend the special meeting on July 27th to insist on proper deliberation.
We have an action toolkit here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ8FOlm5fCo7-s3jubaDq79i0hHhamUw-o7DTxcLpo4GaBwuGvBNPiZy-d_RB6gvKmh6fSivtO42CZ7/pub#bodycameras #policing #surveillance #privacy #MAPol #Somerville MA
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Here is the latest update from the Somerville ad hoc group working on the body cameras issue: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRiU1P7QeQoR9Tbx-xr1wzevoa7D5UnRo8kRdEws6CFHLEgDCU7EzDkR60PAv4Rk0FByuZemkjya95c/pub
The very short version is that the Mayor is still trying to rush this specific body cameras policy through without proper deliberation and that #Somerville is holding a special meeting on July 27th for public comment *and* a vote.
This is *not* the public comment session that was requested by petition.
#bodycameras #SomervilleMA #policing #surveillance #privacy #MAPol
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Here is the latest update from the Somerville ad hoc group working on the body cameras issue: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRiU1P7QeQoR9Tbx-xr1wzevoa7D5UnRo8kRdEws6CFHLEgDCU7EzDkR60PAv4Rk0FByuZemkjya95c/pub
The very short version is that the Mayor is still trying to rush this specific body cameras policy through without proper deliberation and that #Somerville is holding a special meeting on July 27th for public comment *and* a vote.
This is *not* the public comment session that was requested by petition.
#bodycameras #SomervilleMA #policing #surveillance #privacy #MAPol
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CW: Police Surveillance
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/ @404mediaco
The searches sometimes stretch across dozens or even nearly a hundred networks of Flock cameras at once. Sometimes the searches are so vague that they can pull up images of innocent or unrelated people.
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CW: Police Surveillance
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/ @404mediaco
The searches sometimes stretch across dozens or even nearly a hundred networks of Flock cameras at once. Sometimes the searches are so vague that they can pull up images of innocent or unrelated people.
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Police acknowledge flawed speed testing in legal e-bike crush case
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/flawed-e-bike-speed-testing
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Police acknowledge flawed speed testing in legal e-bike crush case
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/flawed-e-bike-speed-testing
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"Modern life puts most of us in the middle of a strange contradiction. Americans recognize that they are being tracked constantly—by corporations, advertisers, platforms, apps, smart devices, cameras, vehicles, and often one another—yet most people still do not fully understand how that data ecosystem functions, who can access it, or how easily it can be weaponized."
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"Modern life puts most of us in the middle of a strange contradiction. Americans recognize that they are being tracked constantly—by corporations, advertisers, platforms, apps, smart devices, cameras, vehicles, and often one another—yet most people still do not fully understand how that data ecosystem functions, who can access it, or how easily it can be weaponized."
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And maybe stop destroying things you dont understand; ebikes, political protest, trans people
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And maybe stop destroying things you dont understand; ebikes, political protest, trans people
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How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments
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How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments
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Bringing the Polis into disrepute
A Scottish pro-Palestine activist is facing charges for “threatening and abusive behaviour” after reading a poem about children killed by Israel. Ironically one written by Michael Rosen. I wonder whether they will be a seeking a warrant for his arrest as well.
I really thought we were being a little more sensible in Scotland.
#Policing #Scotland #FreeSpeech #TrumpedUpCharges #Palestine
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Bringing the Polis into disrepute
A Scottish pro-Palestine activist is facing charges for “threatening and abusive behaviour” after reading a poem about children killed by Israel. Ironically one written by Michael Rosen. I wonder whether they will be a seeking a warrant for his arrest as well.
I really thought we were being a little more sensible in Scotland.
#Policing #Scotland #FreeSpeech #TrumpedUpCharges #Palestine
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Lecturer:
Why are people doing this course?Me:
I'm a police and prison abolitionist, I believe that the system we have now not only doesn't work, but it creates immense amounts of harm.Next person:
I'm very similar to Aby. I worked in Corrective Services and am now working in disability services. I want to meld these two types of work and work with disabled prisoners.umm.. THESE THINGS ARE NOT SIMILAR
jesus fucking christ#policing #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #AbolishPolice #CommunityNotCops #Criminology
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Lecturer:
Why are people doing this course?Me:
I'm a police and prison abolitionist, I believe that the system we have now not only doesn't work, but it creates immense amounts of harm.Next person:
I'm very similar to Aby. I worked in Corrective Services and am now working in disability services. I want to meld these two types of work and work with disabled prisoners.umm.. THESE THINGS ARE NOT SIMILAR
jesus fucking christ#policing #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #AbolishPolice #CommunityNotCops #Criminology
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CW: Policing, Stalking
Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader/ @404mediaco
Roman told investigators that he saw the woman as a “shiny thing” and knew that using surveillance tools to track her was illegal, according to police records.
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CW: Policing, Stalking
Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader/ @404mediaco
Roman told investigators that he saw the woman as a “shiny thing” and knew that using surveillance tools to track her was illegal, according to police records.
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"Entrenching a climate of surveillance across public life."
"People’s faces being scanned without consent and being added to lists is worrying enough, but the speed which Facewatch technology now makes it possible for someone to encounter the police force in the middle of their daily shop is a really dangerous escalation."
🗣️ Sarah Lasoye for ORG.
#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
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"Entrenching a climate of surveillance across public life."
"People’s faces being scanned without consent and being added to lists is worrying enough, but the speed which Facewatch technology now makes it possible for someone to encounter the police force in the middle of their daily shop is a really dangerous escalation."
🗣️ Sarah Lasoye for ORG.
#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
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The existence of flock inc presents a material aid to those who would try to disable flock inc.
I think they ought to go sue themselves.
#lawfare #law #intimidation #lawyers #policing #whatwouldSirRobertPeelDo
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The existence of flock inc presents a material aid to those who would try to disable flock inc.
I think they ought to go sue themselves.
#lawfare #law #intimidation #lawyers #policing #whatwouldSirRobertPeelDo
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Outrageous from West Midlands police. A road-legal, council-funded @ternbicycles HSD allegedly crushed, wrongly identified as a motorcycle. A local bike business out of pocket as a result; a rider without transport.
Can this become a catalyst for police education, who routinely mislabel e-motorbikes & electric bikes?
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/police-crush-road-legal-e-bike
#ebikes #electricbikes #cycling #policing #crime #motorbikes #transport #policy
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Outrageous from West Midlands police. A road-legal, council-funded @ternbicycles HSD allegedly crushed, wrongly identified as a motorcycle. A local bike business out of pocket as a result; a rider without transport.
Can this become a catalyst for police education, who routinely mislabel e-motorbikes & electric bikes?
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/police-crush-road-legal-e-bike
#ebikes #electricbikes #cycling #policing #crime #motorbikes #transport #policy
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Here is an official statement from #TheBlackResponse (TBR) about the vote to remove #ShotSpotter microphones from Cambridge, MA. In addition to reviewing the reasons for their long advocacy to #StopShotSpotter, they also highlight the ways in which TBR's leadership role in the effort has been erased, sidelining the central black and brown voices in the effort.
https://binj.news/2026/07/02/opinion-the-black-response-on-the-matter-of-shotspotter-in-cambridge/
