UP Police to Use Hindu Lunar Calendar to Track Crime, Says Spurt in Crime on 'Darker Nights'
In a circular to the police force, UP police chief, Vijay Kumar, said that state-wide analysis of crime shows that there is a rise in crime a week before and after the new moon of the Hindu traditional calendar.
Madras HC issues notice on petition challenging use of FRT in Tamil Nadu
Madras High Court has issued notice in a petition challenging the installation and deployment of Facial Recognition Technology (“FRT”) across the State.
"What police shrug off as mistaken identity never takes into account how it feels for someone to be treated as a criminal, to face police guns drawn and pointed, or the vulnerability of having one’s hands cuffed behind their back."
If this happened regularly to middle-class white people, radical police reform would have as much support as tax cuts.
Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP
Despite the Supreme Court calling the detention of children ‘a flagrant violation of the law’, right-to-information data reveals at least 79 such detentions, 61 from Uttar Pradesh alone over five years. Juvenile justice law clearly says that no child in conflict with the law can be placed in a police lock-up or jail.
As UK police forces ramp up use of facial recognition, let's remind ourselves of the harms it can cause because of errors from the technology.
Those errors form racist false arrests, which can be traumatic for those involved. This is illustrated by the case from the US of a pregnant woman arrested following a false positive from facial recognition software.
I can answer that question. Until after the next general election or maybe even at a pinch the next Holyrood elections. Simple really - follow the political pressure - not even the money in this case.
There is a wealth of research that shows police forecasting tools reinforce the structural racism that is embedded in the UK criminal justice system.
Schemes like this make good headlines but we need more transparency about the data and methods the Met will use to 'profile' offenders and how they plan to mitigate the risk of discriminatory outcomes.
@Chron This story is infuriating. Even if the car had been stolen, that is extreme treatment of a scared family. They put handcuffs on the child? Did they think the child stole the car his family was driving? This is just unacceptable policing. #Texas#policing
Legal experts have called for the evidence collected by the special investigative office set up to investigate the Lawyer X scandal to be referred to an interstate prosecutor, saying lack of transparency could give rise to questions about perceived conflict of interest.
Ariana Mendible is sharing a great talk, "Small Town Police Accountability: A Data Science Toolkit" here at #SciPy2023. Her group has created a great package to help researchers parse the output of FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) requests, using #OCR, #NLP, and #Python. The library, called SToPA, is available on GitHub: https://github.com/qsideinstitute/SToPA
More on the talk here: https://cfp.scipy.org/2023/talk/AXPZZG/
How a Boston student’s killing sparked a movement against police shooting among South Asian diaspora
The police killed Bangladeshi-origin Arif Sayed Faisal, who was having a mental health crisis, in January. Six months on, a movement has gathered force.
In Kashmir, Respect for National Symbols Cannot Be Commanded By Fear
The Centre's relationship with J&K is not a humane one. It is a relationship of the strong and the weak. When the weak cannot scream, they register their resistance by remaining silent.
In March we sent an open letter to Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, to end discriminatory police practices following the case of the #Manchester10.
While the reply committed to a review of Joint Enterprise, the application of digital evidence must be considered, as it's misused to created tenuous 'gang narratives'. This racialised construct is weaponised to draw flawed conclusions that entrenches racial injustice.
As part of the review of evidence-gathering and investigation policies that feed into Joint Enterprise and conspiracy cases, Greater Manchester Police must address three areas:
🔴 Current policies over digital evidence.
🔴 Whether it runs programmes similar to Project Alpha and how information mined from social media is used in police investigations.
🔴 Which risk factors feed into risk profiling on the Manchester gangs database.
The #Manchester10 case exposes the unjust nature of 'gang narratives' in policing.
Despite having never been involved in violence, some of the young Black men were convicted under conspiracy.
Our original open letter to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, signed by 15 civil society groups lays out the injustices resulting from racialised surveillance in UK #policing, such as with Project Alpha that trawls social media to criminalise people of colour.
Abolition is about alternatives. It’s about not asking cops with guns to handle situations they’re not trained for. It’s about building a society that helps those who need it instead of sending punishers to them. It’s about foundation building and community.
(Passage from Derecka Purnell’s “Becoming Abolitionists”)
Wow.
French police "at war with vermin" as rioting spreads across country".
French policing unions APN and UNSA also called the rioters "savage hordes".
A reminder that large numbers of the protesters are from ethnic minorities. #Racism#RightToProtest#LanguageMatters#Politics#Policing
The idea that Indigenous, brown, and Black people should carry firearms to protect ourselves under the 2nd Amendment kinda falls apart when cops shoot us multiple times for having cellphones, wallets, or dark-coloured hands.
Legal experts call for Lawyer X evidence to be referred to an interstate prosecutor (www.abc.net.au)
Legal experts have called for the evidence collected by the special investigative office set up to investigate the Lawyer X scandal to be referred to an interstate prosecutor, saying lack of transparency could give rise to questions about perceived conflict of interest.