#Policing

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/7Some Atlanta police have called out sick in solidarity with a fmr. officer charged with murdering 27-yr old #RayshardBrooks. Those officers—plus the 57 members of the Buffalo Emergency Response Team

John Ng

JohnNg50019199

It’s not @CAN_SEBP’s Analyst Series Day (sorry for the delay, have been trying to catch up on a few things) but I have some reflections on a missing person work

Divest SPD 🇳🇬

DivestSPD

Why is Seattle spending so much on patrol? (THREAD)(1/16) The Defund SPD movement aims to cut the police budget by at least 50%.A good place to start: PatrolThis division accounts

Emily Galvin-Almanza

GalvinAlmanza

So...I'm reflecting today on when defunding police results in reduced budgets and reallocation. And I'm thinking abotu what I learned about minimizing policing as a public defender. A short thread.

Police Accountability Project

Police_Acc_Proj

"The Victoria Police employ a risk-based system that classifies young people who have been in conflict with the law as ‘youth network offenders (YNOs)’ or ‘core youth network offenders" @DrLWeber1

Cameron Rasmussen

CamRasNYC

Unsurprisingly, @nasw has been particularly terrible during this period of rebellion. I don't expect much from them or big social work institutions. Still, their participation in this moment clarifies a

Gavin Hales

gmhales

Extremely interesting conversation this morning with a front line Met officer that centred on public confidence in policing. A few things stand out - THREAD below.1/ First, the value of

Vanesa Castán Broto 🌈

VaneBailo

In this world there are many kinds of people and not everyone is good at everything. I am not good at twitter. Mostly I do not like to spend a

Khadijah *a centered voice*

UpFromTheCracks

To the degree I’ve distilled any of this stream of consciousness it’s only due to how much I’ve learned from and been in dialogue w/ incredible scholars/activists/babymommas/artists etc so am

Thomas Michael Shelby OBE DCM MM MP

marlonmusique

This recent hair debacle made me recall something I had read about the Tignon Laws so I went looking again... The Tignon Laws of 1786 were laws that banned black

Randi White

RandiWhite

The biggest need is to filter out racists in the police departments. Not defund or abolishThis should be a short thread, but every time I say something like that, it’s

Katrina for #PoliceFreeSchools

katrinafeldkamp

Many know about policing’s origins in slave-catching. But did you know that the 911 number was launched as a tool to suppress civil rights protests? My colleague and I wrote

Sir Samuel Vimes

RealSamVimes

I can't get over this stat on the difference between confidence in African and Carribean communties in Police. I can't believe people aren't seizing on this. It is clearly important

Ángel Díaz

AngelSDiaz_

Really recommend reading Chief Judge Gregory's powerful dissent in the recent 4th Circuit opinion upholding Baltimore's aerial surveillance program. I'm going to share a few highlights.https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/20149

Chenjerai Kumanyika

catchatweetdown

There are important lessons to be learned from the policing that did & didn’t happen yesterday. So the hypocrisy being discussed is important. But don’t let anyone reduce this to:“those

Trans Lesbian Planet Eater

Ren_Chandler4

I'm sympathetic to the idea that original, adult queer works need more attention, but yelling at "the kids" for liking more mainstream work doesn't solve anything. Both sides feel like

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