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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.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/metro/cambridge-body-cam-footage/ -
North-South divide in #policing resources (or maybe just sheer weight of #traffic ? )
Maybe easier for #Hantspol as the #ladette appears to have surrendered without incident when she was baulked by a traffic jam (didn't even ram civillians vehicles out of spite like I've seen in other pursuits), but NPAS (helicopter) was on standby, TVP ( #ThamesValleyPolice ) units were ahead and ready to deploy HOSTYDS ( Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System / #stinger )
I was able to find at least one possible social media entry for her where she's pictured with a child, so maybe an incentive to realise its best to stay alive and accept the Courts penalties (although the way she was driving suggests she's used to going a bit fast, and simply hadn't been nicked before)
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North-South divide in #policing resources (or maybe just sheer weight of #traffic ? )
Maybe easier for #Hantspol as the #ladette appears to have surrendered without incident when she was baulked by a traffic jam (didn't even ram civillians vehicles out of spite like I've seen in other pursuits), but NPAS (helicopter) was on standby, TVP ( #ThamesValleyPolice ) units were ahead and ready to deploy HOSTYDS ( Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System / #stinger )
I was able to find at least one possible social media entry for her where she's pictured with a child, so maybe an incentive to realise its best to stay alive and accept the Courts penalties (although the way she was driving suggests she's used to going a bit fast, and simply hadn't been nicked before)
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North-South divide in #policing resources (or maybe just sheer weight of #traffic ? )
Maybe easier for #Hantspol as the #ladette appears to have surrendered without incident when she was baulked by a traffic jam (didn't even ram civillians vehicles out of spite like I've seen in other pursuits), but NPAS (helicopter) was on standby, TVP ( #ThamesValleyPolice ) units were ahead and ready to deploy HOSTYDS ( Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System / #stinger )
I was able to find at least one possible social media entry for her where she's pictured with a child, so maybe an incentive to realise its best to stay alive and accept the Courts penalties (although the way she was driving suggests she's used to going a bit fast, and simply hadn't been nicked before)
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North-South divide in #policing resources (or maybe just sheer weight of #traffic ? )
Maybe easier for #Hantspol as the #ladette appears to have surrendered without incident when she was baulked by a traffic jam (didn't even ram civillians vehicles out of spite like I've seen in other pursuits), but NPAS (helicopter) was on standby, TVP ( #ThamesValleyPolice ) units were ahead and ready to deploy HOSTYDS ( Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System / #stinger )
I was able to find at least one possible social media entry for her where she's pictured with a child, so maybe an incentive to realise its best to stay alive and accept the Courts penalties (although the way she was driving suggests she's used to going a bit fast, and simply hadn't been nicked before)
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North-South divide in #policing resources (or maybe just sheer weight of #traffic ? )
Maybe easier for #Hantspol as the #ladette appears to have surrendered without incident when she was baulked by a traffic jam (didn't even ram civillians vehicles out of spite like I've seen in other pursuits), but NPAS (helicopter) was on standby, TVP ( #ThamesValleyPolice ) units were ahead and ready to deploy HOSTYDS ( Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System / #stinger )
I was able to find at least one possible social media entry for her where she's pictured with a child, so maybe an incentive to realise its best to stay alive and accept the Courts penalties (although the way she was driving suggests she's used to going a bit fast, and simply hadn't been nicked before)
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And maybe stop destroying things you dont understand; ebikes, political protest, trans people
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#IndigenousPeople harassed and detained by #police. Sound familiar? This time it is on #Mikmaw territory. https://micmacrights.com/2025/09/16/mikmaq-media-team-detained-by-rcmp/
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From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!
#AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements
“#CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.
Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021
"In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.
"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.
"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'
"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.
"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.
"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.
"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.
"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.
"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.
"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.
"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.
"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.
"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."
#BrennanCenter #Authoritarianism #Fascism #NoDAPL #NoKXL #PipelineProtests #WaterIsLife #ACAB #ErikPrince #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ExxonLied #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux
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There's a huge problem to my mind; the author of the page to which you link highlights it, and it is that passing this sort of stuff as terrorism means we need a new name for actual paramilitary groups like ISIS or (at a push) the Provisional IRA.
I write this as someone who is against protest that blocks other people's free movement or damages property. I will do my protesting in my purchasing choices, with my vote, holding a placard, and if I can think of it, chanting (or otherwise publishing) something witty. And in spite of this I am aghast to have read about that royal marine who petitioned parliament being detained using terror laws, and of Palestine Action being declared a terrorist group. I think we have come to measure the quality of policing by how severe the Crown has been, and I think those who run the police would do well to consider Goodhart's Law.
I have no objection to Palestine Action being called ideologically driven criminal actors, but to call them terrorists, on the basis of their actions to date, seems beyond the pale.
Despite disapproving of their methods, I am somewhat tempted to donate to their legal fees!
#Palestine #UK #policing #law #lawfare #antiTerrorism #Israel #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo
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@glyph
I hear you.My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".
I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.
I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.
#cybernetics #actuarial #odds #maths #math #statistics #science #scientificInquiry #systemsArchitecture #justice #law #policing #cargoCult
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In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
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In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
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In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
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In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
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In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
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New article with Lander Govaerts on rhizomatic harms has now been published online and open access in Theoretical Criminology 😊 #surveillance #AI #socialjustice #policing #rhizomes
Read it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13624806241246267
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#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