We've seen multiple political interventions into the policing of protest in the UK recently.
From the Home Secretary urging the police to consider waving a Palestinian flag to be a criminal offence to the Prime Minister claiming the Cenotaph could be desecrated.
We urge the Met to stand firm against this political pressure and protect our right to protest.
About a month ago on Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, the indigenous individual leading the event said "I don't believe that we can even begin to talk about reconciliation until there is truth."
Earlier this year, a white teen deliberately (allegedly) shot a woman. That teen was charged as a juvenile. Last week, a POC teen accidentally (allegedly) shot his friend. This teen is charged as an adult. Very curious about State's Atty. Vekos's reasoning in this case.
“The Metropolitan police have admitted that a 13-year-old boy playing with a water pistol was rammed off his bike by armed police, knocked to the ground and officers pointed their submachine guns at him.
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“The boy had been playing near his home with a blue plastic water pistol with his sister, who had a pink one.”
The American College of Emergency Physicians has withdrawn its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that describes a “potentially life-threatening” condition that results in unusual strength, pain tolerance and bizarre behavior. Critics say police have used the paper to justify excessive force in cases where a suspect dies in custody, and the American Medical Association has rejected it as a diagnosis.
When an Innu Nation found it was short $1.6 million after paying wages retroactively to police force members after a salary arbitration award, the Nation sued #Quebec and #Canada.
The #Innu argued that renewal of the tripartite agreements for policing over the years was done without needed increased funding and that breached the honour of the #Crown.
A #Court of Appeal agreed. Now the Supreme Court will hear the case.
The Government’s independent advisor to its Rape Review, Emily Hunt, has quit claiming there is a “lack of will” in the police and civil service to change.
She said myths about rape are perpetuated at high levels of the civil service and police. She is returning to the US as she says she does not feel safe in Britain.
The use of spy drones does "little for public safety and may be especially alarming for those from communities which face disproportionate #surveillance already."
Claiming mass surveillance is about safety masks data harvesting for discriminatory predictive #policing.
If it is about student wellbeing, policy-makers "should invest in harm reduction approaches and strong community safety." Anything else is subterfuge.
Predictive policing technologies have received incredibly little scrutiny considering the harms they're causing and inequalities they're exacerbating.
We urge UK local authorities to take a beat and consider the utility, harm and trajectory of using this predictive policing tech and automated policing before procuring it.
At the very least we expect transparent and wide public consultation when the stakes are so high.
My son's Cervelo R5 road bike (Posh in plain in English) was stolen from the guards van of an Avanti West Coast Pendolino on Sunday when the train stopped in Crewe. I found a shitty hybrid in the guard's van in its place when I got to London. But the thief put it on Facebook Marketplace today and I've now passed his details on to Crewe Police. I wonder whether any action will be taken… Will we get it back? My breath is tightly held. #theft
May I tag after this to endorse the UK company https://www.bikeregister.com/ who sell bicycle covert marking kits (to aid recovery of goods found that are thought might have been stolen), and run a free to register "bike register" so anyone can record their frame serial no. and their name, should their bike ever later be found by the police?
This fugitive saga must be so embarrassing for the various law enforcement agencies and police forces involved: Escaped murderer on the run in Pennsylvania has changed appearance and slipped out of search areas - Ten days and the authorities have not caught him. Is the guy that good? Or are the cops that bad? Here in #SouthernOregon the #Ashland police department still has not identified or detained the killer of a young man who was beheaded with a samurai sword in broad daylight in the city limits. That happened about ten years ago. Cops are good a showing up, and sometimes that’s good enough. But in many cases, what happens after they show up is no so good, effective or competent. #policing#Cops#LawEnforcement#Failhttps://apnews.com/article/a729fb5d39251c2c1c336513e9f5a324
Delhi Riots: Court Pulls Up Delhi Police For Filing 'Predetermined' Chargesheets, Suspects Manipulation Of Evidence; Discharges 3
While discharging three men in a case relating to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots, a Delhi Court said it is suspicious that the investigating officer of the Delhi Police “manipulated evidence” and filed chargesheets in a “predetermined and mechanical manner”.
Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice
Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, Article14 analyses five recent court judgements that reveal how the police followed a similar modus operandi of submitting false evidence in court in an atmosphere of impunity.
"The most effective strategies [to reduce crime] involved #police partnering with #communities to address #social problems in a holistic way and with a much wider set of tools than simple arrests. Good #policing should seek the "least intrusive means of solving a problem" and involves police #partnerships with actors across the public and #community sectors."