Obama recommends on police reform

By artappraiser on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 10:22pm |

As communities around the country try to reimagine how law enforcement can operate in a just, effective and non-discriminatory way, these articles provide some useful background and differing viewpoints on the issue. https://t.co/tm08fXSkRF
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2020

the other three after the jump

Here’s a piece that outlines the need for a more aggressive overhaul of policing.https://t.co/yJlSb0MmyK
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2020

I posted the next one as the starter of a long News thread so you may have read it

And here’s a counterbalance that argues for substantial reforms to policing and oversight but not fewer police.https://t.co/DwQoyobGRX
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2020

Finally, here’s a look at how Germany reshaped police training after the horrors of World War II and how this approach might be useful to other countries today.https://t.co/C9oFaqTxo8
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2020

It’s clear our communities are crying out for change—and what that change looks like is up to us. That’s why it’s important to take a hard look at all the perspectives and proposals out there, even the ones we disagree with. It’s how we’ll come up with solutions that last.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2020

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Really interesting info! How many police per capita in 293 cities in America. The very top: DC. The very bottom: Irvine, CA. https://t.co/KkHyCwMIbc
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 12:49am

That's interesting, the so called freedom loving libertarian leaning west tends to have more cops

by ocean-kat on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 2:08am

https://t.co/zqu5L2G3Bp
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:22pm

“In Milwaukee, homicides are up 37% so far this year, on pace to break the record of 167 in 1991, which included 16 murders by convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.”https://t.co/KPCgN1P9Ev
— Jason Willick (@jawillick) July 13, 2020

And social workers can't really help with this kind of thing, guess one has to depend on Twitter:

milwaukee womxn be safe! pic.twitter.com/Rn6rZMA6tB
— samantha (@sambrrgn) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 11:52pm

"Quotas", always a problem:

24 dirty LAPD cops are under investigation for lying about people they stopped, saying the people were gang members, possibly to falsely boost the officers' daily productivity statistics. https://t.co/yl6swOo30S
— Matt Ferner (@matthewferner) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 12:01am

Interesting that the NYPost is headlining this story of a black cop beating up a white guy on the subway:

NYPD body-cam footage shows officer punching, dragging man off train https://t.co/wizp1R8h0L pic.twitter.com/p6oNKPoGtN
— New York Post (@nypost) July 16, 2020

Note that it was a pretty outrageous situation as the DA believed the cop totally and charged the victim with assault! Didn't bother to ask to see the body cam footage?

There's lots of lefty anti-police posting of it on Twitter, and calls from NYC for the cops to be fired.

But that NYPost has decided to highlight a "cops are thugs" story is something new!

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 9:32pm

The Manhattan DA is dropping the assault charge against the guy who was punched by a cop.

This only comes after @THECITYNY published bodycam footage and there was public outcry. Until then, the DA's office was happy to charge someone with assault for *being punched by a cop* https://t.co/ZIxQ1fV81B
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) July 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:32am

Things aren't looking good for the NYPD becoming open to acting more humanely towards strangers::

You don't see this every day. "Highest-ranking officer" means just that. (The commissioner is a civilian appointment.) "Terence A. Monahan, New York’s highest-ranking uniformed chief, was one of several officers who were attacked on the Brooklyn Bridge." https://t.co/pGg4JMFyeq
— Bad Hombre "remains silent" Moskos (@PeterMoskos) July 16, 2020

I don't see no de-escalation or non-violent theory here. I see tribal hatreds.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 1:29am

Black officer in Portland describes street confrontations between violent crowds of protesters far more white than the heavily minority police forces trying to maintain order https://t.co/5kaD8vmiUd
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 2:59pm

^A "must watch". Intelligent cop with history degree with his own earnest grievances about adolescent "BLM" protesters.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 3:05pm

I question this story. He says blacks and Latinos wanted to talk to him, but the conversation was stopped by white people, repeatedly. No black or Latino person told the white person to STFU?

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 10:39pm

Doleac is Economics professor @TAMU, Director @JusticeTechLab, Host of the @ProbCausation podcast. I study crime & discrimination.

I talked with @mattyglesias about policing and recidivism and the role of research in improving criminal justice policy. Check out the latest episode of The Weeds:https://t.co/sPDAOgW39m
— Jennifer Doleac (@jenniferdoleac) July 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 11:13pm

Portland had the highest number of homicides of any single month in three decades. The police are tied up defending a courthouse that rioters are trying to burn down for...reasonshttps://t.co/7XfBJ6Lhjn
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 2, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 9:05pm

Ah now here we have the hard complicated truth as I see it after reading a gazillion things on topic. And I suspect Obama might agree-so I am plopping it here- he's a smart and reasonable cookie who has talked to a lot of folks about things like this and policy and realities, and thought long and hard about it since his community organizing days, not to mention seen how policing works out around the world. He's just not ready and able to admit this reality for political reasons, maybe never will be able to:

"The protests were whiter than the police department’

Peter Moskos – sociologist and former Baltimore cop – talks to spiked about race, policing and mass incarceration.

By Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spiked-online.com, July 27

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 7:26pm

81% of Black Americans Don't Want Less Police Presence Despite Protests—Some Want More Cops: Poll

By Jocelyn Grzeszczak @ Newsweek.com, Aug. 5

A majority of Black Americans have said they want police presence in their area to either remain the same or increase, despite recent protests over police brutality, according to new polls.

A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area.

Black Americans' responses to the question were nearly on par with the national average, in which 67 percent of all U.S. adults said they wanted police presence to remain the same and 19 percent said they wanted it to increase.

The poll's results come amid continuing nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which activists founded in 2013, has led the U.S. to its largest collective push for civil rights since the 1960s.

Calls to defund and even abolish entire police departments are popular talking points among BLM activists. Miski Noor, an organizer and activist with Black Visions Collective in Minnesota, recently told WBUR that abolitionists "100 percent" mean they want no more police officers.

On May 30, five days after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, BLM called for the of defunding police in a statement on its website [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/22/2020 - 12:00am

1. The #BLM approach to analyzing police shootings assumes that things like this don't happen: https://t.co/Th2BkosGbO

Every cop must have this in their head as a non-zero possibility when they make a routine traffic stop.
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) August 27, 2020

2. A cop gets shot almost every day in America: https://t.co/vDrzjBrKcm

This makes policing in America fundamentally different from policing in Europe, where cops have (almost) no reason to fear being shot.
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) August 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 2:21pm

Obviously this means they get a free shot at everybody.

Edit to add:

Stop and Frisk made some people feel safe

It made 90% of people stopped feel like targets.

Police community relations were not improved.

I refuse to give up my right to be treated with dignity to soothe a police officer's fears.

That is a police state.

In a recent incident a woman and her young relatives were forced onto hot asphalt for a bogus police stop

Coleman is free to sacrifice his relatives to that treatment, my relatives expect better.

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:22pm

Obama recommends on police reform

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