#Policing

Let’s have a thread about a behavior I like to call Vulnerability Hoarding. This is when someone emphasizes their own vulnerability, frailty, suffering, etc, in a way that frames the
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(THREAD) In July of 2016, BYP100 released a statement title, "In Defense of Black Rage and Black Resistance." We re-release this statement now, because in 2020, our rage and resistance
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The armchair analysts are out in force today. I feel like Policing is the only job in the world where everyone appears to believe they can do it better! Lots
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THREAD 1) Many attribute #SouthKorea's success in mitigating #coronavirus spread to effective testing. But the truth discussed in this piece reveals how the US & other countries will likely have
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I literally have no words right now. yesterday, the German federal council passed a law calling for "neutrality“ of civil jobs like being a teacher. a lot of people fear
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A few things I want to address here. First, the police are not your friends, and what I mean by that statement. Second, a brief recap of what I think
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Come join us for New Books in South Asian Legal Studies panel F May 29 at 11am-12.45 ET for a convo with 5 authors. Each author will speak on their
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If watching Casey Wasserman fawn over Donald Trump last week made you nauseous/furious, we're here to remind you that this is nothing new for the wallet and brains behind LA's
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The Trump/Bill Barr/GOP response to the black lives matter protests/movement highlights not just the “slouching towards authoritarianism”, but the acceleration of the pace of authoritarianism into a full-blown sprint
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the past 15 years has seen the almost complete landlordization of media and technology--- itunes was an early pioneer, making people think it was a privilege to rent music in
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1. Regis Korchinski-Paquet should be with us today. Her family says the police pushed her off her 24th floor balcony & she fell to her death. Black Ontarians have been
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THREAD ON NOT CALLING THE COPS from a white person who woke up today with smashed car windows It’s one thing to say “don’t call the cops”, it’s another thing
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#BREAKING: Ford apologizes for controversial measures announced last week, re: playground closures, policing powers (which were reversed)"We moved too fast... some of those measures around enforcement went too far. Simply
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Learning from @KimCrayton1 #AntiracistEconomist White folks need to stop causing harm by countering the lived experience of BIPOC with their own experience Use your journal, your therapist, your other white
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Lesson 1. Everything you’ve probably heard is a lie. Specifically, the most discussed “solutions” to police violence have no evidence of effectiveness. For example, Body cams don’t reduce police violence:https://www.pnas.org/content
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THREAD: All this talk about emergency housing for homeless, but we've seen in #yyj how housing can make things worse. Reflecting on the collective demands for housing from SIC tent
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