#Policing

Fair Trials

fairtrials

Fair Trials recently urged the @EU_Commission to take bold action to end structural discrimination throughout Member States' criminal legal systems. A brief thread:https://www.fairtrials.org/news/need-end-structural-racism-criminal-lega

OldRailwayAccidents

RWLDproject

Just getting started at the @CHPPC_IHR seminar - Roland Quinault 'Policing late-Victorian Lambeth: a police constable's notebook'.Looks really interesting - incl that the everyday notebook belonged to Roland's gt grandfather

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

AOC faced no risk on day of the riot as rioters never breached the building she was in, she was protected by armed Capitol Police. It's understandable, however to be

Fabio Rojas

fabiorojas

1/ Earlier this summer, people on Twitter got on my case when I said that #policeabolition/#policedefunding was not likely to happen in the near future, even though I am an

Aaron Chalfin

ajc730

New working paper joint with @benconomics, @emilyweisburst and @MWillJr that considers the race-specific effects of a larger police force in the U.S. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28202/w28202.pdf We find that, in most c

Aᴍɪʀ

AmirIGM

Iran's Artesh: A Karrar UAV intercepted 3 US aircraft - a P-8, RQ-4, and MQ-9. https://dnws.ir/415433 Artesh says that the aircraft had entered Iran's ADIZ while Zolfaqar 99 exercise was

The Ranting Rozzer

RantingRozzer

There are a lot of new police accounts about recently, quite a few of them asking for policing advice from some of us longer in the tooth members of our

Nowhere Girl

Gwynnion

Research on policing says most of what people believe is bullshit, but every conversation to that end gets bogged down in myths and racist fears and personal anecdotes and intuitions

Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri 🦀

bascule

Trying a horrible experiment...Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? "It's the red tie! Clearly the algorithm has a preference for red ties!"Well let's see... Let's

Taryn de Vere

TarynDeVere

So many myths going around about cis women atm, I thought I'd do some #Mythbusting1. Contrary to what you might think, MOST cis women take little interest in who else

micah

micahherskind

loving reminder that there are many resources already out there on abolition, many of which address the common (and less common!) questions you might have when learning about abolition short

Melissa

melissa_schober

The biennial performance audit for 2018-2019 is out for the Baltimore Police Department https://comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/files/bpd-perf-audit06-2020pdf /1 Here's the upshot: auditors looked at three service areas. In 2018, the BPD

Ángel Díaz

AngelSDiaz_

THREAD: I analyzed Citizen's contact tracing app when they were pitching it to NYC. Unsurprisingly, its approach to privacy is terrible, continues to encourage paranoia-as-a-service, and has wide latitude for

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

There's a person with a verified account defending the McMuffin lady on the basis that "her feelings are valid" and "right now she has reason to fear food tampering".Yeah, and

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Yesterday we found out @ginacarano was fired from Star Wars over Social Media postsLots of people talk about cancel culture, but so far no one has given a serious account

Dennis Hogan

dennismhogan

Seems like the grad employee strike at Michigan is going wall-to-wall. I would not want to be admin right now Higher ed is due for a strikewave and the fighting

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