#Policing

I try not to talk about this stuff on main v much anymore besides occasional clowning on weirdos but like. people who spend all their time crying about evil "fandom
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a lot of these replies concieve of past queer communities as overly sexual, bad at consent, and unsafe for children + others and... i’m tired.https://twitter.com/razorfemme/status/1252608235263209482 multiple things can be true,
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The Jacob Blake shooting is one of those rare circumstances where the "We need better police training!" people may be right...in a way.There is a video used in some police
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Today's modern policing comes from Slave Patrols, Night Watches, Indian Constables...these MFs later became modern police departments, were both designed to control us. St. Louis police were founded to protect
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police or some form of policing to uphold a presence of order is a necessity in every society regardless of its economic organization. when cops overpolice or brutalize black communities
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In London over the last yr, for all #stopsearch powers, black people have been stopped at c. 4x the rate of white each month. For s60 it's 2-5x (except 8x
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A Black girl is dead because the cops brought a gun to a damn knife fight. If you don’t know how to de-escalate teen girls who are fighting, you should
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Yea 4chan got people fucked up because anonymous people were calling each other f*ggot unlike the wholesome parts of the internet where everyone is constantly policing themselves and others and
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This is a useful thread that does a good job of explicating the big picture conceptual stakes in some of these policing debates.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1293538832638529536 And it is definitely true that when
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FACT CHECK: Republicans spent today’s entire @HouseJudiciary hearing trying to distract and change the topic from the Justice in Policing Act because they don't want to admit their version COMPLETELY
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I'm enjoying the hundreds of replies claiming I don't know anything about what voters on social housing estates think. I grew up on one. That's why I'm Labour - because
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when we try to imagine a world free from harm, this example of one woman being killed every three days by a man in the uk should make us think
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We can't legally violate the speed limit. The police can. We can't legally use deadly force in our daily jobs. The police can. Our system work only if the police
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I understand the dangers of a pandemic well enough to see why avoiding public places and crowds is important right now, but I don’t see how policing anyone is of
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The Durham Police statement pretty much exactly as I predicted in @thetimes https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/durham-police-investigate-dominic-cummings-case-at-highest-levels-xsqltgtfh https://twitter.com/jonwalker121/status/1265979637210
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It’s reasonable to have questions about abolition. It’s silly to demand answers in people’s mentions. It’s better to read & seek out conversation. People have compiled LOTS of resources to
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