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29 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"An [NYPD] sergeant dismissed a sexl assault claim bc she was sleeping, explaining 'he has sex w/ his wife while she’s asleep & she’s not reporting him for rape.'" On what police really think of survivors of crime & why they still get even higher budgets:
thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
"Policing has an amazing ability to fail up. One woman said that despite providing investigators with a “comprehensive 13-page document detailing the incident,” the detective didn’t interview witnesses and her case was closed twice without her knowledge." thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
"Murder rates go down; people exalt policing. Murder rates go up; people exalt policing. The defund movement advocates reducing and reallocating police funds; police budgets remain high. The backlash comes; police budgets get higher."thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…
The public becomes aware that policing is violent, racially biased, and counterproductive in marginalized neighborhoods; police get more resources to “improve.”thegarrisonproject.org/purpose-of-pol…

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30 Oct
READ THIS: “I didn’t want this man to die because I called the police. I also didn’t want him to die if I didn’t call the police. I just thought he needed medical attention.” On two 911 calls. 6 years apart. The perils of policing & promise of alternatives.motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
The profound reporting by @msjpauly is the story of two encounters between Oakland police & unconscious Black men. In one, the cops shoot & kill the man. In the other, they don’t. The difference is at least partly due to a new grassroots initiative, called Mental Health First. Image
Mental Health First fashions itself as an alternative to 911. After they heard about the incident this year (6 years after the killing of a 30 y/o father of three, volunteers sped to the scene & intervened, helping deescalate police & making sure the man came out alive. Image
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30 Oct
THREAD: In San Francisco now. Family here asking me about recall of Chesa Boudin. Point to a recent sensational article centered on a homicide prosecutor who quit. They've been skeptical. But to them, this article was a gamechanger. Problem: The article was based on lies. More: Image
The central story in the article about prosecutor Brooke Jenkins' exit from the office & now role in recalling Chesa Boudin is the Daniel Gudino case. Tragically killed his mother. Every expert-court appointed & otherwise-agreed he was legally insane. Jenkins wouldn't accept it.
Despite the insanity finding from all experts, prosecutor Brooke Jenkins' "spent $40,000 of taxpayer money to hire an expert never approved for court & whose report was at best laughable, just to find someone who would disagree w/ the weight of evidence.”davisvanguard.org/2021/10/guest-…
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25 Oct
THREAD: “Even as state/local reformers post major victories, national Democrats have almost entirely abandoned discussing criminal justice reform in public.”

Some thoughts on the irrational political cowardice of Dem leaders on justice & what you can do:thedailybeast.com/why-democrats-…
Criminal justice policy is largely a state & local issue. That's how our constitution works. A fancy legal term called "federalism." States are considered "laboratories of experiment.” Allows state & local progress to occur even with a President like Trump.
In an ideal world, local advocacy for criminal justice would & could proceed unhindered by either a national party/politicians being absent from the conversation or worst case, actively working against it.
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23 Oct
THREAD: "Vegan ex-cop who meditates." This is how NYT normalizes--even before becoming Mayor--a cop who ran a campaign based on fear. Wants to arrest & cage even more people, increase the sky-high $11 billion NYPD budget, & police as solution to all. More on the campaign he ran:
June 2021. Eric Adams fearmongered over “black & brown babies” being “shot,” & weaponized tragedies while NYC invests a historic $11 billion/yr on policing that clearly is failing to prevent anything. This statement might as well be from Donald Trump.
July 2021. Eric Adams peddled such brazen lies & fear about judges not caging even more than the 1000s of Black & Brown people they already do, *that the racist, Trump-supporting NYPD union* started retweeting his quotes. "We have surrendered our city."
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22 Oct
THREAD: I do not think that 20,000 NYPD will actually quit over vaccine mandates. I'd be surprised if any actually do. I hope they do, however. For a lot of reasons. This new article lays out several of them. I'll lead you through my thinking here. More:
qz.com/2076827/unvacc…
The fact that cops at NYPD, an agency tasked with "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way is not just telling, it's also *entirely consistent* with an agency that exacts state violence on a mass scale every day against mostly Black and Brown people.
The fact that an agency tasked w/ "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way, is *entirely consistent* w/ an agency Human Rights Watch found *planned* a mass assault on hundreds of protestors in the Bronx then praised their restraint.
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21 Oct
THREAD: Important reporting on the state of crime reporting. Here, Mother Jones carefully assesses FBI Data weaponized by police & amplified by media to scare & misinform public. Speaks w/ non-police experts, & debunks the myths. "Don't believe them." motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
A carefully worded first paragraph in this reporting. "Homicides across the United States rose by an estimated 30 percent in 2020, the largest one-year increase on record, according to recently released data from the FBI. But don’t jump to conclusions about what that means."
"As soon as the FBI shared this statistic, a flood of fear-inducing headlines made it seem like Americans are now living through a massive wave of violence. Police & journalists quickly speculated about causes blaming (w/o evidence) protests to stop police brutality."
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