#Policing

Race & Class

Race_Class

THREADEssential reading on policing and deaths in custody in the UK- free to access‘The silence of the custodial system is compounded by the silences of racism. We have chosen to

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the wisest things anyone's ever said to me about predictive policing tools - algorithms that purport predict where crime will occur - is that they don't predict crime,

Jobs to Move America

JobsMoveAmerica

THREAD: The #BlackLivesMatter movement is spurring us to reimagine a racially just society. Here's how #DefundThePolice could fund the public goods that build healthy communities -- and create thousands

Black Public Health Collective

blkpublichealth

.@UofT_dlsph has created a course for public health graduate students to learn about policing, data, and public health. This article has raised some serious concerns about the potential harms of

ExPcTallbird

expctallbird

Somehow 2 & a half years have passed since I left policing & I thought maybe time for a little thread about my journey & a bit of advice for

Take The “Chris” Out of Christmas

brujacontumbao

I feel deep sorrow for the people who died in the twin towers. And I absolutely hate how it’s been politicized and weaponized to justify so much more violence, imperialisn,

Alex Petrovnia, bane of TERFs and anti of fa

AlexPetrovnia

TERF stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” and they are a group that basically believe trans people existing threatens feminism and women in general. #TERFs They have an obsession with

kavita poduri

yrgirlkv

man it's stumbling across stuff like this that convinces me we need to work way harder at getting trans theory across to the next generation. these slurs are first and

DARCATL

darcatl

Good morning, comrades! So, you agree we should defund the police. But what do alternatives to policing look like? We’ve compiled a list of existing alternatives to policing across

Jude Oudshoorn

judahoudshoorn

Our infatuation with policing has lead to using police to do things they shouldn’t be doing. Data from stats Canada shows that in the busiest month of 2020, 2/3rds of

The Ranting Rozzer

RantingRozzer

I probably ought not to but here are my thoughts on the JRFT debate currently raging.Firstly, I’d agree with those saying that the bleep test isn’t a good test of

Aaron Chalfin

ajc730

1/ Those of us who have studied the relationship between the size of a city's police force and crime including @emilyweisburst, @mellosteve2 and @ProfEmilyOwens among others are finding our work

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

There is something in particular that I appreciate about this (overall pretty good) Episcopalian Bishops’ statement about protest and policing: 1/x threadhttps://episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/episcopal-church-house-bishops-july-

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ Republicans across the nation are increasingly turning the "defund the police" line into a political argument, pitting a fear of rising crime in major cities against calls for racial

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/12Portland still bears the scars of a summer of protest—initially kicked off by police brutality & racial injustice, then fueled by federal agents operating violently & without accountability. A movement

abolition.university

abolitionu

Interested in the principles behind the #CopsOffCampus database? Check out this thread...And sign up here: https://airtable.com/shreERH3ZtNEVGT5s #ScholarStrike #AbolishPolice #AbolishThePolice #Abolition #AbolishPolicing 1. Abolitionists s

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