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Hearing a lot of commentators bemoan the ‘problem of police brutality.’ Let’s be clear: we have a problem of *white supremacy* in police departments all over the country. We have a problem of police departments only nominally under civilian control.
We don’t have a National Police Academy, as other countries do. We do have the FBI National Academy, which takes in LEOs from around the country. Here’s what it’s like:
policeone.com/police-jobs-an… +
We need a much stronger mechanism for training police officers to national standards, and it needs to train officers to tackle white supremacy in their ranks. We need an institution that will gradually feed enlightened, tough fighters against white supremacy into the field.
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@VillageIdiot136 @Marty_Parrish @nowhitechalk @NotonW @YourAnonCentral Need to break down the "three months between election and inauguration" into (i) the period between Election Day and the formal, legal declaration of a winner, and (ii) the period from declaration of a winner until inauguration.+
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THREAD. For those interested in behind the scenes, organizing nuts and bolts of how the '60s voter registration drives in Mississippi and the anti-war and ‘Dump Johnson’ movements came together, this is essential viewing. +

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@chantler_jaki The Internet makes all this much easier. In my day, my parents and I were mailing reels of tape back and forth, with at least 10 days on the way each way. I have some of those tapes, fortunately, and they're a great record of a certain period of our lives.+
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