#Policing

This sounds appalling. And we (are supposed to) assume it proves institutional racism, right? But what if the stats actually suggest the *opposite*? Sounds crazy but stick with me for
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I received more #FOIA documents on policing of the @payusmoreucsc wildcat strike, these from the Calif Office of Emergency Services (OES). Let's start with the unsurprising fact that the cops
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Tens of thousands of NYers are homeless or live in shelters. Abusive street sweeps and policing won't keep them safe from COVID-19, but NYC's many empty hotel rooms could. @NYCMayor:
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I always think about how queer people aren’t generally born into queer families so learning about ourselves is largely self-directed, and it’s easy to galvanize young queer people into policing
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This week, our nation is mourning another instance of a deadly encounter between police and an unarmed person of color. George Floyd’s unnecessary death at the hands of Minneapolis police
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If you carry a badge and gun in the name of law enforcement, I want you to look at both items and ask yourselves the following questions :Why do I
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A white teenager with a long gun shot and killed two people and wounded another last night in Kenosha. A crowd of everyday, unarmed citizens chased him down trying to
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25 years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that cops could use any pretext (read: lie) to stop a car to search it & courts would not secondguess their motivations—race
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tone policing sucks, but it’s especially frustrating in the work place. i’m already keeping it cute bc i need to keep a roof over my head & yet my nice
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This person screws this up by misgendering me despite the fact my pronouns are literally right there in my display namehttps://twitter.com/master_deli/status/1286768774755090435 They then continue to mess it up by assuming
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people do or do not put pronouns in the bio for all sorts of reasons, some more sympathetic than others sure, and i don't think policing that practice is anything
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1) The @CovidCoalition continues to maintain and update daily essential legal resources on Lockdown in SA: https://c19peoplescoalition.org.za/legal/ I will highlight some resources on a thread here but there are MANY more.
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Caution: This thread strictly contains NSFW memes. Moral policing here is strictly restricted. Ignore the thread if you find it vulgar & obscene. *when a girl asks you about your
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The murder of George Floyd was unconscionable and the inaction by the bystanding three police officers was equally reprehensible. Instead of just decrying this senseless loss of life, leaders in
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Oh Dean, Dean. Really? "The stuff the MSM won't tell you"? What are you running there, a political party or a WhatsApp group? You're being 'attacked' because you're feeding us
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I think part of the reason this slogan gets used is a) a general fetishization of radical framing & b) the phrase pulls together at least 3 fundamentally quite different
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