#Policing

I’ve been looking at officer fatalities data and started noticing some pretty big discrepancies between different sources of data.So I'm making a thread (pt.1):CW for death, mention of specific types
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THREAD: Tomorrow, on Juneteenth, Minnesota Senate Republicans are planning to leave town instead of passing serious policing reform.We'd like to introduce you to some of the Senators who want to
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So @henryjenkins has posted a statement+apology. I appreciate his clarity about the problems of the initial CFP, the validity of the critiques, and the casual racism and sexism in the
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An author once said, "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Writing is pain, joy, depression, self-doubt. These are trials
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This is psychological warfare.It is deliberate. It is organised. It is exhausting. It is designed to exhaust people and keep them anxious.It is torture.https://twitter.com/fromzerotojeo/status/1274963896651198468 First, they tried psycholog
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Ok, here’s the deal w/ @NYCMayor’s proposed HUGE funding cuts to NYC public schools—- they were avoidable and are unnecessary. Here’s why: 1. @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie refused to raise revenue
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Mate on my estate has hit the skids & I can't deal with him.Yeah I could carry on trying to keep him on the straight & narrow but I ain't.
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Misogyny is a supremacist ideology. As with all supremacist ideologies, its foundation is strict division: There are some to whom power inheres, & some who are by nature lesser-than &
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Police kill approximately 1,000 civilians a year and about ~35 of them are killed by suspects every year. That is to say, police are presently 28x more dangerous to the
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Rurouni Kenshin has a definite Hong Kong flavor for a reason. @KenjiTanigaki, a long-time choreographer with Donnie Yen (starting with Shanghai Affairs /IMDB), made his mark with Sha Po Lang.
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Dear fellow white women, It's been a while since I made one of these posts. But because and since we are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the 19th
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1/ Seems to be lots of confusion about what Garda Commissioner said yesterday re the nude/intimate images shared online last week. He said no criminal investigation was underway. That has
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For the Prime Minister of Australia: Dear Scott Morrison, I am writing to you about the growing concern worldwide for the First Nations people of Australia. I was only 17
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I am tired. We all are. This pandemic is a pain. But I am also tired of some of some of the analysis out there (claiming that COVID19 is no
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1) I have seen several people that I have great respect for say that racism underlies a newly circulating poll that shows support for BLM but substantially fewer people supporting
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So let's talk about term-policing, because apparently I haven't been in enough Twitter fights lately. This is going to be An Thread, so buckle up. 1/ It's a perpetual Problem
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