"Federal authorities have subpoenaed records and ordered the head of #Connecticut State #Police to meet with them this week amid controversy over claims widespread ticket falsification by troopers skewed #racialProfiling data."
Communities that want to reduce racism in policing have been trying to force cops to report basic information on their interactions with the public by race...
Today in Labor History July 26, 1894: President Grover Cleveland created a Strike Committee to investigate the causes of the Pullman strike and the subsequent walkout by the American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs. After four months, the commission absolved the strikers and placed the blame entirely on Pullman and the railroads for the conflict. Roughly 250,000 workers participated in the strike. And an estimated 70 workers died, mostly at the hands of cops and soldiers. To appease workers, the government came up with a new holiday, Labor Day, to commemorate the end of the Pullman Strike. However, President Cleveland had other interests in creating the new holiday. Rather than rewarding workers, his goal was to bury the history of the Haymarket Affair and the radical anarchist and socialist history of the labor movement by choosing any day other than May 1 as the new national labor holiday.
I think we may all agree the #police spend too much time responding to #mentalhealth calls.... but, this is because the #Tories have continually defunded & neutered other services to help these vulnerable people.
So Ministers telling the police to respond to fewer of these calls, while possibly refocusing them onto #crime, & whatever the pious words about 'right care, right person' (like the move to 'community care') is essentially a callous abandonment of the troubled!
Une question, teintée de culpabilité, me met mal a l'aise...
Est-ce qu'a force d'accuser la police de tous les méfaits, vérifiés ou non, avec ou sans contexte, sans aucune nuance, nous n'avons pas participé à en faire une institution dangereuse pour notre démocratie?
Vu l'attitude du gouvernement et son incapacité à faire montre de la moindre #autorité à l'égard de la #police, j'ai un peu de mal à comprendre comment les choses peuvent s'améliorer :( Manifestement, ils sont nombreux à être en roue libre (parlons en de la perte de repères...) et la défiance des citoyens vis a vis d'elle risque de se creuser plus encore.
Macron me donne l'impression d'être un président très démuni. Un homme de blabla et de posture .
D'après le Parisien, le ministre de l'intérieur néofasciste, Darmanin, a validé la sédition factieuse des composantes d'extrême droite de la police sans mettre Borne et Foutriquet dans la boucle.
The #BBC has apologised to the batrachian #Farage, but the sum total of it is: "We reported you lost your #Coutts account because you don't have the money. This was not entirely accurate. You also lost your account because you're a bigoted shit."
Farage and his fanbois are gloating. But he's still gunning after someone senior in the bank, because it was never about money or 'spree feach'. This is about revenge and intimidation, and always has been.
It does, of course, say a lot when people who are vulnerable to corruption and bribery are complaining that there are too many safeguards protecting them from being corrupted, or, indeed, blackmailed.
Including the, err, MINISTER IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING #POLICE.
This is, of course, all happening in broad daylight.
"Many MPs falling foul of bank rules on ‘politically exposed persons’, says [#ChrisPhilp]...
Le Parti de Gauche appelle à un sursaut républicain face à la mise en cause de l'état de droit, de la justice, la séparation des pouvoirs et l'expression séditieuse d'une partie de l'institution policière et de ses responsables avec l'aval du ministère de l'intérieur. #Macron13h#IlleetVilaine#police
« La leçon que j’en tire, c’est un : l’ordre, l’ordre, l’ordre. La deuxième, c’est que notre pays a besoin d’un retour de l’autorité à chaque niveau et d’abord dans la famille »
Darmanin soutient le directeur de la police: Frédéric Veaux fait scandale en réclamant la libération du policier placé en détention à Marseille, soupçonné d'avoir tabassé un jeune: "Le directeur a toute la confiance du ministre de l'Intérieur", m'indique Place Beauvau. #Off#Politique#violencespolicieres#Police#Justice#Darmanin#Macron
#NYC settles historic class action suit over racial injustice protests
#NewYorkCity will pay more than $13 million to more than 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten during #protests against #RacialInjustice in the summer of 2020.
The agreement comes after a civil rights lawsuit accused leaders of the city's #police department of violating protesters' #FirstAmendment rights with "coordinated" brutality and unlawful arrests.