After questions from ProPublica, the #NYPD has agreed to end its practice of withholding body-cam footage of #police shootings from civilian investigators. Under the deal, police will hand over requested footage within 90 days.
It's essentially a good faith agreement that does not have the force of law or lay out penalties.
In 2018, We Reported on an Abusive #Cop. He Was Just Sentenced to a Year in #Prison.
Five years after ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune partnered to investigate #police misconduct in Elkhart, #Indiana, reporter Ken Armstrong reflects on the incremental but powerful impact #journalism can have on communities.
Today in Labor History November 5, 1916: The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington. 300 IWW members arrived by boat in Everett to help support the shingle workers’ strike that had been going on for the past 5 months. Prior attempts to support the strikers were met with vigilante beatings with axe handles. As the boat pulled in, Sheriff McRae called out, “Who’s your leader?” The Wobblies answered, “We’re all leaders!” The sheriff pulled his gun and said, “You can’t land.” A Wobbly yelled back, “Like hell we can’t.” Gunfire erupted, most of it from the 200 vigilantes on the dock. When the smoke cleared, two of the sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot in the back by their own men, along with 5-12 Wobblies on the boat. Dozens more were wounded. The authorities arrested 74 Wobblies. After a trial, all charges were dropped against the IWW members. The event was mentioned in John Dos Passos’s “USA Trilogy.”
“Not only does it criminalize people for being #undocumented in #Texas it also encourages mass profiling of people, potentially across the entire state.”
“Suffolk Police clarified that the raw data was contained in an Excel spreadsheet which was "hidden" within the files.
The force said it could not be seen by simply opening the files and that anyone accessing it would require "technical knowledge" and would need to know what they were looking for.”
LOL. So, hidden files now count as 'security' for the police?! 🤦♂️
CT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.
This week: When #Brownsville ISD had an 11-year-old boy arrested and placed in #solitary confinement, we dug deeper. What we found was horrifying: Over 75 fifth-grade students have been arrested there this year.
“I'm doing this because I believe that newspapers still have a place in the world and that the worst thing that a newspaper could do was shrink its reporting staff, stop reporting, fill itself with non-news when there's still #news out there.”
A small #newspaper was investigating the chief of #police. They it was raided by the police.
Today in Labor History August 25, 1819: Allan Pinkerton was born. He founded the Pinkerton private police force, whose strike breaking detectives (Pinkertons, or 'Pinks') slaughtered dozens of workers in various labor struggles. Ironically, Pinkerton was a violent, radical leftist as a youth. He fought cops in the streets as a member of the Chartist Movement. He had to flee the UK in order to not be imprisoned and executed. Yet in America, he became the nation’s first super cop. He created the secret service. He foiled an assassination attempt against Lincoln. He fine-tuned the art of spying on activists and planting agents provocateur in their ranks. His agents played a major role in destroying the miners’ union in the 1870s, as portrayed in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.” Later, they assassinated numerous organizers with the IWW and came within inches of successfully getting Big Bill Hayward convicted on trumped up murder charges.
“We are up against a bunch of rich people who don’t want to see #homeless people anywhere near their stuff.”
Volunteers with #Houston Food Not Bombs are going to court to fight an anti-food sharing ordinance which they say violates their First Amendment rights, reports Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher in our latest article: https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-food-not-bombs-trial/
Zollbeamter gibt Adresse von Journalisten an Neonazi weiter
"Ein Neonazi fragt einen Zollbeamten in einer Chatgruppe nach der Adresse eines Journalisten, der zu rechtsradikalen Strukturen recherchiert. Der Beamte gibt die Adresse weiter – gerät aber später selbst ins Visier von Ermittlungen.
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Rechtswidrige Zugriffe auf Datenbanken bei Sicherheitsbehörden sind ein bekanntes Problem. Auch die Weitergabe von Informationen aus dem Polizei- und Sicherheitsapparat an Rechtsradikale sind kein Einzelfall, wie alleine die Vorkommnisse aus Zwickau, Greifswald, Berlin, Leipzig und Frankfurt zeigen." https://netzpolitik.org/2023/rechtsradikalismus-zollbeamter-gibt-adresse-von-journalisten-an-neonazi-weiter/
Sheriff Greg Capers' turn in the national spotlight after an April mass shooting belied years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction that were previously unknown outside of the piney woods of San Jacinto County.
The unnamed informant, described in the Aug. 28 lawsuit as the "designated person," (DP) accuses police officers of acting in #BadFaith by reneging on the co-operation deal and then allegedly #blackmailing him or her
Deputies accused a Texas sheriff of corruption and dysfunction. Then came the mass shooting (apnews.com)
Sheriff Greg Capers' turn in the national spotlight after an April mass shooting belied years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction that were previously unknown outside of the piney woods of San Jacinto County.