All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
A new report released by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in part questions whether the school could have pursued alternative responses to a heavy police presence during campus protests of the war in Gaza last year.
— Read on www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/17/massachusetts-college-encampment-protest-gaza
Get the report HERE
New Bureau of Justice Statistics data reveal that concerning trends in policing persisted in 2022, even while fewer people interacted with police than in prior …
— Read on www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12/19/policing_survey_2022/
Ten years ago today, two NYPD officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
It was a shocking act of violence that came on the heels of citywide protests over police brutality in the wake of Eric Garner’s death. Garner had been placed in an prohibited chokehold by an NYPD officer who was never charged with a crime.
The 2014 killings of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as they sat in their patrol car marked a turning point in New York City’s relationship with law enforcement. Law enforcement experts said the tragedy caused police to put new safety measures in place for officers, and public sentiment about criminal justice reform has swung back and forth over time. Families of the men killed said there is more work to do to improve police-community relations.
— Read on gothamist.com/news/10-years-after-the-targeted-killing-of-2-nypd-officers-policing-in-ny-has-changed
Check out the video and links to resources on the website from the link below.
In Baltimore, a young mayor fights to enact a bold plan to end chronic violence.
— Read on www.pbs.org/pov/films/bodypolitic/
Why the Roosevelt Avenue surge won’t sustainably fix the Queens corridor’s public-safety problems
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-false-promise-of-police-crackdowns-in-new-york-city-roosevelt-island-queens-corridor
There has been a surge in violence against the police, a BBC investigation has found.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grg0m085po
This “secretive program” is similar to Citizen Police Academies that 1,000’s of police departments across the nation host every year. There is nothing nefarious with this program.
ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.
— Read on documentedny.com/2024/10/01/ice-immigration-train-citizens-academy/
This month marks the tenth anniversary of events that changed the trajectory of this country, and not for the better. On August 9, 2014, Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Riots erupted the next day and continued for months nationwide. Black Lives Matter exploited the mayhem it had helped cause, helping it swell into a malign global force. The activist model pioneered at Ferguson has had a lasting impact on American politics, as this year’s pro-Hamas demonstrations prove.
— Read on www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/decade-ignorance-ferguson-inaugurated-ten-years-lies-about-race-america
“You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”
— Read on www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/a-new-louisiana-law-limits-the-right-of-journalists-and-everyone-else-to-film-police-abuse/
All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice - written by a Secret Contrarian
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