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Minneapolis police officers pen open letter condemning former officer Derek Chauvin
(CNN)Members of the Minneapolis Police Department spoke out on Friday out against former police officer Derek Chauvin in an open letter addressed to "everyone -- but especially Minneapolis citizens."
"Derek Chauvin failed as a human and stripped George Floyd of his dignity and life. This is not who we are," said the letter, signed by fourteen MPD officers. "We're not the union or the administration," the letter says.
"We stand ready to listen and embrace the calls for change, reform and rebuilding," says the letter, which comes as powerful police unions across the country are digging in, preparing for a once-in-a-generation showdown over policing and new polls that indicate that most Americans now acknowledge that African Americans are more likely to be mistreated or even killed by police.
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/12/us/minneapolis-police-letter-chauvin-trnd/index.html
Minneapolis police officers pen open letter condemning former officer Derek Chauvin
(CNN)Members of the Minneapolis Police Department spoke out on Friday out against former police officer Derek Chauvin in an open letter addressed to "everyone -- but especially Minneapolis citizens."
"Derek Chauvin failed as a human and stripped George Floyd of his dignity and life. This is not who we are," said the letter, signed by fourteen MPD officers. "We're not the union or the administration," the letter says.
"We stand ready to listen and embrace the calls for change, reform and rebuilding," says the letter, which comes as powerful police unions across the country are digging in, preparing for a once-in-a-generation showdown over policing and new polls that indicate that most Americans now acknowledge that African Americans are more likely to be mistreated or even killed by police.
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/12/us/minneapolis-police-letter-chauvin-trnd/index.html
Minneapolis defunds police in favor of "citizen patrol". New York set to cut a billion dollars from NYPD... Problems solved. Racism eliminated. Liberal fantasy bubble land erected to stroke democrat egos and virtue signal sky high. Pop corn purchased as I now watch leftist idiots eat themselves and bring down two major urban centers until nothing is left... to then inturn blame Republicans for their insanity. Mob rule always works..... That is always works to fuck minorities over while white liberal elites sit in their gated communities and wax wokeness for the camera. Remember you ain't black if you don't vote Biden. And you ain't white if you vote Trump
Rage and Promises Followed Ferguson, but Little Changed
America has been here before: a black man on the asphalt dying at the hands of the police. Convulsive protests across the country. A national reckoning. Vows to change.
The last time was August 2014. Michael Brown was the victim. Darren Wilson was the officer. Ferguson, Mo., was the place.
After the unrest that followed that fatal shooting, police departments spent tens of millions of dollars on body cameras, revised use-of-force policies and held training sessions in implicit bias and de-escalation. A presidential task force issued 153 recommendations and action items. The Justice Department forced seven troubled police departments into consent decrees with mandatory benchmarks aimed at reducing racial disparities and police brutality.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rage-and-promises-followed-ferguson-but-little-changed/ar-BB15qY5z?li=BBnb7Kz
America has been here before: a black man on the asphalt dying at the hands of the police. Convulsive protests across the country. A national reckoning. Vows to change.
The last time was August 2014. Michael Brown was the victim. Darren Wilson was the officer. Ferguson, Mo., was the place.
After the unrest that followed that fatal shooting, police departments spent tens of millions of dollars on body cameras, revised use-of-force policies and held training sessions in implicit bias and de-escalation. A presidential task force issued 153 recommendations and action items. The Justice Department forced seven troubled police departments into consent decrees with mandatory benchmarks aimed at reducing racial disparities and police brutality.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rage-and-promises-followed-ferguson-but-little-changed/ar-BB15qY5z?li=BBnb7Kz
After extensive study and research on this issue, the three main arteries of contention are as follows:
1. Police Unions wielding power over change regarding policies and procedures.
2. Adherence to the Brady List by prosecutors and law enforcement agencies across the country regarding disclosure in court cases, and the re-hire of police officers terminated for misconduct.
3. Open loopholes which takes advantage of those in police custody and prevents prosecution of police officers for crimes such as rape.
And let's not forget ratification of the 13th Amendment.
The above is a good start.
1. Police Unions wielding power over change regarding policies and procedures.
2. Adherence to the Brady List by prosecutors and law enforcement agencies across the country regarding disclosure in court cases, and the re-hire of police officers terminated for misconduct.
3. Open loopholes which takes advantage of those in police custody and prevents prosecution of police officers for crimes such as rape.
And let's not forget ratification of the 13th Amendment.
The above is a good start.
Anonymous
Ahavati said:Rage and Promises Followed Ferguson, but Little Changed
America has been here before: a black man on the asphalt dying at the hands of the police. Convulsive protests across the country. A national reckoning. Vows to change.
The last time was August 2014. Michael Brown was the victim. Darren Wilson was the officer. Ferguson, Mo., was the place.
After the unrest that followed that fatal shooting, police departments spent tens of millions of dollars on body cameras, revised use-of-force policies and held training sessions in implicit bias and de-escalation. A presidential task force issued 153 recommendations and action items. The Justice Department forced seven troubled police departments into consent decrees with mandatory benchmarks aimed at reducing racial disparities and police brutality.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rage-and-promises-followed-ferguson-but-little-changed/ar-BB15qY5z?li=BBnb7Kz
I think it is different now largely due to outrage at Trump being such a divisive force - whereas before in retaliation to a black man being president, heels were dug in to maintain the status quo.
America has been here before: a black man on the asphalt dying at the hands of the police. Convulsive protests across the country. A national reckoning. Vows to change.
The last time was August 2014. Michael Brown was the victim. Darren Wilson was the officer. Ferguson, Mo., was the place.
After the unrest that followed that fatal shooting, police departments spent tens of millions of dollars on body cameras, revised use-of-force policies and held training sessions in implicit bias and de-escalation. A presidential task force issued 153 recommendations and action items. The Justice Department forced seven troubled police departments into consent decrees with mandatory benchmarks aimed at reducing racial disparities and police brutality.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rage-and-promises-followed-ferguson-but-little-changed/ar-BB15qY5z?li=BBnb7Kz
I think it is different now largely due to outrage at Trump being such a divisive force - whereas before in retaliation to a black man being president, heels were dug in to maintain the status quo.
Anonymous
SatInUGal said:It scares me that if we mostly survive Trump’s presidency, it may one day be looked upon positively as a turning point- something we somehow needed- medicine.
I would consider it the festering wound that became infected and finally burst open, to which the real medicine could be applied in the appropriate places.
I would consider it the festering wound that became infected and finally burst open, to which the real medicine could be applied in the appropriate places.
In 2018
153 officers killed in the line of duty
Cops injured 18,005 in the line of duty
Cop Suicides comitted 172
In 2019:
unarmed black killed by cops 9
unarmed whites killed by cops 19
Does and news agency report on that? Free speech is not given to cops, it is down to others to report these figures
(Figures source at FBI site)
https://www.policemag.com/503583/the-wounded-officers-injured-on-duty
153 officers killed in the line of duty
Cops injured 18,005 in the line of duty
Cop Suicides comitted 172
In 2019:
unarmed black killed by cops 9
unarmed whites killed by cops 19
Does and news agency report on that? Free speech is not given to cops, it is down to others to report these figures
(Figures source at FBI site)
https://www.policemag.com/503583/the-wounded-officers-injured-on-duty
Mass criminalization is a root cause of racial inequality within the U.S.
Stanford sociologist discusses how race and class inequalities are embedded in the American criminal legal system.
For Matthew Clair, the protests following the death of George Floyd are a stark reminder of the U.S.’s turbulent racial history. “In 2012 when I was in graduate school, I attended several protests in Boston following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager,” said Clair, who is an assistant professor of sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences. “Trayvon’s death and the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives in 2014 in the wake of Ferguson profoundly affected me.”
Clair became interested in criminal justice issues after seeing how the legal system plays a central role in the lives of Black people in the United States. “As I conducted interviews and ethnographic observations among police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges and defendants in courthouses in the Northeast, I began to understand just how massive the legal system’s imprint is in U.S. society, and how it intersects with racial and economic injustice.”
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What are some of the daily life interactions between communities of color and police that have ramifications in the court system?
Communities of color – especially poor Black, Latino and Native American communities – are routinely surveilled by police. Numerous studies in sociology and criminology have documented police surveillance, the way it manufactures crime rates, and the way it fosters cynicism among people of color. It has become the norm in many Black communities to be stopped, questioned, abused and arrested by police. White people living in privileged communities likely could not imagine such routine, negative interactions with police occurring in their own lives.
In my work, I draw a link between the injustices of policing and the injustices of court processing. For working-class and poor people of color, negative encounters with police produce feelings of cynicism and distrust that bleed into their mistrust of court officials, prosecutors and even their own defense attorneys. One common frustration among the disadvantaged criminal defendants I interviewed and observed in Boston was that their defense attorneys rarely attempted to use procedural tools – such as motions to dismiss charges or suppress evidence – to hold police accountable for unjust practices. In effect, court officials, on the whole, legitimate racist and class-biased policing. Thus, we have a situation where the “crime” or alleged violence of defendants is ripe for punishment but the violence perpetrated by the police is routinely ignored and even validated.
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https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/06/08/race-mass-criminalization-u-s/
Stanford sociologist discusses how race and class inequalities are embedded in the American criminal legal system.
For Matthew Clair, the protests following the death of George Floyd are a stark reminder of the U.S.’s turbulent racial history. “In 2012 when I was in graduate school, I attended several protests in Boston following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager,” said Clair, who is an assistant professor of sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences. “Trayvon’s death and the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives in 2014 in the wake of Ferguson profoundly affected me.”
Clair became interested in criminal justice issues after seeing how the legal system plays a central role in the lives of Black people in the United States. “As I conducted interviews and ethnographic observations among police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges and defendants in courthouses in the Northeast, I began to understand just how massive the legal system’s imprint is in U.S. society, and how it intersects with racial and economic injustice.”
[ . . . ]
What are some of the daily life interactions between communities of color and police that have ramifications in the court system?
Communities of color – especially poor Black, Latino and Native American communities – are routinely surveilled by police. Numerous studies in sociology and criminology have documented police surveillance, the way it manufactures crime rates, and the way it fosters cynicism among people of color. It has become the norm in many Black communities to be stopped, questioned, abused and arrested by police. White people living in privileged communities likely could not imagine such routine, negative interactions with police occurring in their own lives.
In my work, I draw a link between the injustices of policing and the injustices of court processing. For working-class and poor people of color, negative encounters with police produce feelings of cynicism and distrust that bleed into their mistrust of court officials, prosecutors and even their own defense attorneys. One common frustration among the disadvantaged criminal defendants I interviewed and observed in Boston was that their defense attorneys rarely attempted to use procedural tools – such as motions to dismiss charges or suppress evidence – to hold police accountable for unjust practices. In effect, court officials, on the whole, legitimate racist and class-biased policing. Thus, we have a situation where the “crime” or alleged violence of defendants is ripe for punishment but the violence perpetrated by the police is routinely ignored and even validated.
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https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/06/08/race-mass-criminalization-u-s/
US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts
The nationwide protests following the death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police officers has once again shone a spotlight on the long-standing racial divide in the US.
This, along with the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately killed black Americans, has drawn renewed attention to the persistent inequities in wealth, health and opportunity between blacks and whites despite economic prosperity of recent years.
Those disparities exist because of a long history of policies that excluded and exploited black Americans, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning group.
"Racial inequality has become so normalized in this society," she said. "It's what we expect to see. That's the way it's been for so long."
The numbers are staggering:
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/black-white-us-financial-inequality/index.html
The nationwide protests following the death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police officers has once again shone a spotlight on the long-standing racial divide in the US.
This, along with the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately killed black Americans, has drawn renewed attention to the persistent inequities in wealth, health and opportunity between blacks and whites despite economic prosperity of recent years.
Those disparities exist because of a long history of policies that excluded and exploited black Americans, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning group.
"Racial inequality has become so normalized in this society," she said. "It's what we expect to see. That's the way it's been for so long."
The numbers are staggering:
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/black-white-us-financial-inequality/index.html
Great, in-depth article that covers the Big Picture.
There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist.
Here’s the proof.
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Finally, none of this is to say that race is the only thing we need to worry about in the criminal justice system. Certainly, lots of white people are wrongly accused, arrested and convicted. Lots of white people are treated unfairly, beaten and unjustifiably shot and killed by police officers. White people too are harmed by policies such as mandatory minimums, asset forfeiture, and abuse of police, prosecutorial and judicial power.
There are problems here that are inextricable from race. And there are problems that aren’t directly related to race. But even the latter set of problems tend to be exacerbated when you factor race into the equation.
On to the evidence.
[ The sections you can skip to if you have a specific interest - but I strongly suggest that you read them all. ]
Policing and profiling
Misdemeanors, petty crimes and driver’s license suspensions
The drug war
Juries and jury selection
The death penalty
Prosecutors, discretion and plea bargaining
Judges and sentencing
School suspensions and the school-to-prison pipeline
Prison, incarceration and solitary confinement
Bail, pretrial detention, commutations and pardons, gangs and other issues
The dissent — contrarian studies on race and the criminal-justice system
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system/
There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist.
Here’s the proof.
[ . . . ]
Finally, none of this is to say that race is the only thing we need to worry about in the criminal justice system. Certainly, lots of white people are wrongly accused, arrested and convicted. Lots of white people are treated unfairly, beaten and unjustifiably shot and killed by police officers. White people too are harmed by policies such as mandatory minimums, asset forfeiture, and abuse of police, prosecutorial and judicial power.
There are problems here that are inextricable from race. And there are problems that aren’t directly related to race. But even the latter set of problems tend to be exacerbated when you factor race into the equation.
On to the evidence.
[ The sections you can skip to if you have a specific interest - but I strongly suggest that you read them all. ]
Policing and profiling
Misdemeanors, petty crimes and driver’s license suspensions
The drug war
Juries and jury selection
The death penalty
Prosecutors, discretion and plea bargaining
Judges and sentencing
School suspensions and the school-to-prison pipeline
Prison, incarceration and solitary confinement
Bail, pretrial detention, commutations and pardons, gangs and other issues
The dissent — contrarian studies on race and the criminal-justice system
[ . . . ]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system/
