Cops Are The Worst

[B]

[B]

It's not whiskey, but I'm not changing it.

[wease]

Nor should you. It's right on the money.

[verb_to_trust]

Is that teacher part of the meme from a porn video?

[Higgs]

That's shit for sure, but genuinely here - how actually do you #SayHerName? "Tay-Tay"? "Teat"? "Tetty"?

I think it's "That case is over a year old even though the tweet implies it just happened"

Oh. Still shit of course. We do need some tighter quality control here though. We don't need fake news.

[verb_to_trust]

No charges in Taylor case. Supposedly they've been quietly emptying out the precinct knowing it's going to get trashed by the agents of change.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Mickey]

So black people are now randomly hanging themselves From trees across the country?

Yeah so it should be popular with white kids in about another year

This is an insanely fucked up post that made me shout-laugh.

[BurtReynolds]

So black people are now randomly hanging themselves From trees across the country?

Yeah so it should be popular with white kids in about another year

I think for once we started this fad.

[96583UP]

Instead of debating liberal fantasies like “racism,” we should instead be concerned by the strange surge in black men hanging themselves from trees.

Ongoing.

Houston Police said a black teenage boy was found hanged outside an elementary school, reported the Houston Chronicle.

The boy was found in a remote corner on Ehrhardt Elementary School property in Spring, and Harris County sheriff’s deputies are investigating as a suicide.

what the fuck

[96583UP]

So black people are now randomly hanging themselves From trees across the country? Five in one week?

https://thegrio.com/2020/06/17/black-teen-hanged-texas/

what the fuck

[Bi_3]

No shit Matt, no shit.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21293784/ ... ing-review

[elliseamos]

One brother found dead in a tree, another shot dead by cops.

Pretty rough for this family:
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ?_amp=true

[Bi_3]

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/15/10981274/ ... icies-guns

(links to backing data are in the URL above)

2) Hot-spot policing

Yes, police practices have run into increasing criticism over the past couple years — with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement and its protests against racial disparities in the criminal justice system and police use of force.

But police can, obviously, play a huge role in reducing crime, especially by adopting evidence-based tactics like hot-spot policing.

The idea, explained to me by famed criminologist David Kennedy: In many cities, a very small subset of places, down to the street and block level, drive most of the crime. So deploying police, intelligently, in these specific areas can have a big impact on fighting crime and violence.

"In many cities, a very small subset of places, down to the street and block level, drive most of the crime"

"It can be as simple as making sure your police presence is increased there, or it can be much more complicated," Kennedy said. "You can get partnerships of police, residents, families, parents, shop owners, building managers, and school officials." He added, "The more those interventions involve partnerships, the more effective those interventions can be."

The research strongly backs up the practice: Not only does it reduce crime, but it does so without displacing it to other areas and generally to positive reactions from locals. And as Kennedy said, the research suggests that bringing in community partners and focusing on the community's needs can boost the crime-fighting effects further.

The disparate impact goes unmentioned here and tactics like this would obvious tilt the numbers to appear even more systemic (systematic?), but this makes sense.

[Peeps]

2) Hot-spot policing

Yes, police practices have run into increasing criticism over the past couple years — with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement and its protests against racial disparities in the criminal justice system andbeing able to video extreme police use of force.

[tree_]

If videos went viral of every time somebody was struck by lightning in the United States, I wonder if there would be a movement for that too

[Strat]

If videos went viral of every time somebody was struck by lightning in the United States, I wonder if there would be a movement for that too

Oh yea total bro

[Peeps]

If videos went viral of every time somebody was struck by lightning in the United States, I wonder if there would be a movement for that too

Oh yea total bro

JFC, he really is a simpleton isnt he?

[tree_]

I like my grits and watchin' cops shows while fiddlin' with my ding dong so shoot me

[tree_]

Do any of you know who Tony Timpa is? He died in a nearly identical way to George Floyd. But he was white. There is a video for a white person being murdered by a cop for every black person. Cops need improvement, but not because they're racist.