#Policing

So hey, I’m American. As you can see from the news, that’s getting weird. Eduction & discussion are important. Let’s try and do a big thread on Irish American mythos,
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This has more to do with power structures than race, right? No one is going to look at this erasure of one of the most scrutinized sentencings in memory and
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For everyone who is appalled and outraged that a sitting President would show open support for white supremacists, your outrage is justified.But please try to wrap your head around the
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Why does a person play live poker for the first time?For most, it’s not for social reasons or fun. You really believe someone wakes up and wants to go get
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ICYMI: our thread last night about the many waays Republicans are wrong about #Section230, the First Amendment, and basically everything about free speech online The hearing is live now, so
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ugh okay, my mail-in ballot just arrived and it's time for a thread on CA's prop 25: the Replace Cash Bail with Risk Assessments Referendum. 1/x a "yes" vote
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@syptweet @Alex_Stafford @UBJennings @rotherhamtiser Can we have some clarification on being allowed on your own Garden during the Governments lockdown and Social distancing.One of your officers was recorded in Rotherham
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1/ OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I have left academia. Many of you know that I have been pursuing a faculty job in academia for the last couple of years. Those efforts have
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On @BBCr4today @pritipatel was asked if a family of 4 stoping and chatting with another family of 4 on the way to the park was "mingling" which was banned. She
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More front bench announcements, there's a few, so here's a thread!Think we knew this one already, but Starmer's PPS is Carolyn Harris.Shadow Treasury ministers:Dan Carden (Financial Secretary)Pat McFadden (Economic Secretary)Wes
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Lord Neuberger, a former President of the Supreme Court, said something we should listen toGovt’s Internal Markets Bill, which allows UK to breach international law and in vital respects removes
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It's that time of year again when students are starting to work on NEA language investigations. We've covered some areas on @LexisPodcast that I think would be good for investigations,
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After organizing a protest, she got racist threats. When the town's police chief called her a liar, things only got worse. Ppl in the town rallied behind the chief, yelling
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Chinese sounds incredibly blunt and rude to Western and Japanese ears.If you work with Chinese people or are learning Chinese, it is really important to understand this:In Chinese, formality is
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Here are some charts showing various relationships between police killings, all and unarmed victims, race and gender.All analysis is original and the raw data was obtained from http://mappingpoliceviolence.org , the most
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Context on state police and inter-agency compacts is key as extra forces are now tapped to pacify #GeorgeFloyd uprising.In 2018 we proved cops from across MN were training at a
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