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NYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway with less policing
AI Surveillance, The Next Step In Excessive Policing?
The use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement presents growing concerns with the expansion of mass surveillance. DON VIA JR. APR 26, 2024 (The Rundown Live) It’s no secret that in 2024 the American police state already acts with wanton disregard for most civil liberties. From the county level all the way up to the […]
Groups of AGs got thousands from companies their members were policing in 2023
Key players in emerging industries like cryptocurrency and sports betting flooded state attorneys general with cash in the second half of 2023, as the top law enforcement officers have moved to regulate them. The beleaguered cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, gig-economy companies and sports betting groups gave thousands or tens of thousands each to the Democratic Attorneys […]
Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?
Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively? By Robert J. Burrowes Global Research, April 15, 2023 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article to […]
Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids
Unfortunately, while much has been said about the dangers of police militarization, a warrior mindset that has police viewing the rest of the citizenry as enemy combatants, and law enforcement training that teaches cops to shoot first and ask questions later, little attention has been paid to the role that “roid rage,” triggered by anabolic […]
House Passes Package of Policing Bills After Democrat Infighting
The House of Representatives on Sept. 22 passed a Democrat-sponsored package of policing bills amid intraparty divisions on the issue due to some progressives’ objections. The bills—which observers have pegged as a last-minute attempt by Democrats to beef up their public safety credentials amid GOP accusations of being “soft-on-crime”—faced drawn out negotiations between moderates and […]
Abolishing The Family Policing System
My passion for the fight to abolish oppressive policing systems – especially the family policing system (also known as the “child welfare system”) – is fueled by my personal experience of having my two children ripped from me in 1999. The two and a half year fight to regain custody, the many additional investigations after […]
Zionism, Policing and Empire: A dispatch from the Mapping Project
The Mapping Project shows connections between oppressive institutions where we live – including NGOs, weapons companies, computer/logistics companies, universities, biomedical research institutions, and others. The intersections between agents of oppression offer possibilities for connecting our struggles. They study us and are networked; we need to study them and form our own networks of resistance. Views: […]
BLM Rails Against Biden Executive Order: ‘Policing’ Is a ‘White Supremacist Institution’ Rooted in ‘Slave Patrolling’
The radical activist group Black Lives Matter railed against the “white supremacist” institution of “policing,” decrying its roots in “racism” and “slave patrolling,” while attacking politicians who support “our killers,” in a series of tweets Thursday following President Joe Biden’s signing of an executive order on policing reforms. Views: 0
McMichaels, Bryan Get Life Sentences For Policing Their Community At Cop’s Request, Shooting Suspect Who Tried to Take Their Gun
By Chris Menahan Former Glynn County police officer Gregory McMichael along with his son Travis and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, were all given life sentences on Friday for policing their community at the request of local law enforcement and shooting a suspect with a long criminal history who tried to take their gun. Superior […]
UK Policing Bill: “Disease” Is Added as A “Public Nuisance Offence”
The Government’s Policing Bill creates a new “public nuisance offence”. The offence includes where individual risks causing another person to suffer “disease”. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has been sponsored by Baroness Williams of Trafford and Dominic Raab MP. It has been passed by the House of Commons and read twice in the House of […]
‘Business Improvement Districts’ Privatize Policing Of Public Space
Above Photo: A “Safety Ambassador” with the Downtown Ventura Partners Improvement District hands out a free face mask on August 11, 2020, in Los Angeles, CA. Al Seib / Los Angeles Times Via Getty Images. Woven into the municipal fabric of the U.S. is a little-known mechanism of privatization and corporate control: the Business Improvement […]
New Report On Predictive Policing Shows How New Tech Is Giving Us Little More Than The Same Old Racism
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has just released an in-depth examination of predictive policing. Titled “Garbage In, Gospel Out,” it details the many ways bad data based on biased policing has been allowed to generate even more bad data, allowing officers to engage in more biased policing but with the blessing of algorithms. […]
Anti-Policing Bills
“Beware Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing Hunting Our Sheepdogs” [by Christopher C. Hull, published in the June 9–15 edition] was an interesting, informative, and alarming reflection on the plight of most police departments that are losing officers every day in the current attacks by the various “wolves.” I say “most” since the article, unfortunately, in my […]
States passed 243 policing bills — and left activists wanting
Police unions from state to state flexed their political influence to stamp out or weaken legislation, like in California where moderate Democrats nearly blocked an officer decertification bill in a committee hearing last month over language that would have altered California’s civil rights law to make it easier for people to sue cops. Last week, […]
More DHS “pre-crime” policing, but still no real “precogs”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced the formation and rebranding of new and existing DHS components into what it is now calling the DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (“C3P” in milspeak). C3P is explicitly intended to be a “precrime” crime prevention agency, and to teach and promote “precrime” techniques for predicting future crimes and identifying […]
Democrat Rep Rashida Tlaib Calls for ‘No More Policing, Incarceration’
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) reacted to the police-involved shooting death of Daunte Wright, calling for an end to “policing, incarceration, and militarization.’ “It wasn’t an accident,” Tlaib wrote in a tweet regarding the death of Wright that ignited the destruction and looting of several businesses in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, late Sunday night. “Policing in our […]