#Policing

On darkfic & discourse:Steps to make a bully shut up, a thread. 1. Do not fall into the trap of bullying back. If they are calling names or kink-shaming, simply
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Reading "I've got a Monster" really dragged up a lot of bad memories for me. Things I did. Things I saw. Cops I investigated. But what really bothers me still
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@chicagosmayor:1/As a southsider who has come to respect your decisions on many difficult things, I am increasingly concerned by the zero-sum game that you have forced many of your Black
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THIS is part of what's behind "Defund the Police." Believe it or not, it--and by extension what some have started invoking as "Defund the MILITARY" has a certain RESONANCE with
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Articles that sparked arguments with my parents, natch.I'm 29. I don't see myself ever owning a house, let alone a second one. I'll acknowledge my relative privilege- I grew up
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This month is #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth. The ostensible goal of this initiative is to “deconstruct and challenge stereotypes about Islam and Muslims”. A noble aim you might think, as apparently do the
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when we are told to simply trust SCIENCE---"LET THE SCIENCE SPEAK"--are we supposed to ignore that science has been built on the bodies of the marginalized with little regard for
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Expect those who make a living in the oppression* industry to crawl out waving their credentials in the wake of #GeorgeNkencho shooting.They need dead black men to justify their existence.Will
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A thread on @mmoralmo's amazing job market paper, one of the best crime/social policy papers I've seen.Suppose you're mayor. You learn that a program--maybe it's drug treatment, lighting, social services,
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/1 Rhet-compromised - I'll be talking about this project (/w @billhd) tomorrow at a fac meeting, so here's a geocoded map of 100+ college/universities with websites compromised by digital agents
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Important thread incoming. 1/_. “Joe Biden has shown this week that some of his ambitions are more radical. On immigration, he is way to Obama’s left, proposing a mass amnesty of millions
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In 2012, Windsor police released a 'Project Accountability' report under then acting chief Al Frederick after Gary Smith's sudden retirement as chief in Dec 2011.This OCPC investigation started after Frederick,
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It's said that #Portland was a place of calm prior to the Fed's arrival. I saw the peaceful protests, tear gas, the police in force. But I also saw the
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1/ Trump's deployment of Border Patrol storm troopers to repress protests on the streets of US cities isn't happening in a vacuum. Here are several instances where the Border Patrol
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Like many of you, I have watched with dismay as the SPD has failed to demonstrate restraint or exercise the de-escalation principles that should be the hallmark of a truly
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THREAD: I am going to speak honestly here. Some people will agree, some people won’t, some people will be incapable of hearing a different view and unfollowing me.. but that’s
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