“When a #police department upgrades its #guns, what happens to the old ones? A CBS #News investigation found #law enforcement agencies routinely resold or traded in their used duty #weapons, a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
In a 16-year period ending in 2022, the ATF identified more than 52,000 guns recovered from #crime scenes that were once used by police agencies. It took a federal court order for the ATF to release that data”
"Police were pushing into the camp after an hours-long standoff. Chan, 31, a medical tent volunteer, said protesters limped in with severe puncture wounds, but there was little hope of getting them to a hospital through the chaos outside. Chan suspects the injuries were caused by rubber bullets or other 'less lethal' projectiles, which police have confirmed were fired at protesters."
#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy
The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.
The National’s content editor was standing roughly 100m from the demonstration when he was confronted by an officer who claimed he was being “obstructive to the police”.
The encounter was recorded. The officer claimed he didn’t have “free roam to go about protest sites” and suggested he could be arrested under Section 20 of the #Police and Fire Reform Act.
An arrested University of #California#Irvine professor makes the connection between paying for #police repression of #protest and starving public #education with austerity:
“These police officers out here today: that’s thousands of student scholarships. Thousands of students could’ve been able to go to school and have books and have housing”
Macron sort l’artillerie lourde administrative en demandant l'instauration de l'état d'urgence en Nouvelle-Calédonie: "Le Président de la République a demandé que le décret soit inscrit à l’ordre du jour du Conseil des ministres qui se réunira à 16h30", annonce l'Élysée. La suspension des libertés publiques, couvre-feu etc.
En Nouvelle-Calédonie, le gendarme grièvement blessé est mort, a appris BFM. 500 policiers et gendarmes supplémentaires vont être mobilisés dans les prochaines heures sur le caillou, en plus des 1800 déjà déployés. La politique coloniale répressive est en marche...
Étrange sentiment en visitant l'Allemagne : où se cachent les agents de la Polizei ? Où sont les militaires qui patrouillent avec des armes de guerre ? Où sont les vigiles de sécurité privée devant toutes les entrées ?
La France serait donc bien un État Policier anxiogène ?
J'ai arpenté des heures durant la gare centrale de #Berlin, une des plus grosses d'Europe, pas un uniforme en vue.
I knew my hometown, a fairly liberal place in a relatively liberal state of California and the state capital, had a #sheriff sharing out-of-state license plate data.
It's almost impossible to control sheriffs in most states because they are elected and answer to no one.