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@philmandelbaum
Sep 24, 2022 • 18 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
Police abolishing themselves A screenshot of a tweet fro...Brent Cox is seen at age 55...
Across the country, police violence cases are settled USING TAXPAYER MONEY.

A March 22 @washingtonpost investigation confirmed $3.2+ billion spent in just 10 years to ‘resolve’ 40,000 claims at 25 of the US’s largest police and sheriff’s departments

washingtonpost.com/investigations… A screenshot of a Legal Aid...
“It’s an indictment on… police and their priorities that the voice of their insurers spoke louder than human lives”

The @TENDEMANDS require all costs of police-related lawsuits be covered by officer pensions and/or personal liability insurance

tenforjustice.com/demands Image
In Chicago, where a Black woman Democratic mayor is more worried about losing an election to a Black challenger than she is about her cops killing innocent Black community members

Taxpayers will pay $25 million — or 30% of the City’s *entire* budget — to resolve *3* police suits
Coupled with all this, we sure are giving LOTS of money to law enforcement
Now add in the cash bail, ticketing and fines, and fees for your own probation and 24/7 electronic surveillance… and you’ve got quite the racket
But why stop there? Cops also steal more from *us* than all of *our* robberies combined
Police misconduct has cost taxpayers about $3 BILLION since 2010

NYC: where you pay twice for police brutality

LAPD has killed at least 1 person per week for 20+ straight years

LAPD cost taxpayers $250 million to settle legal claims from 2016 through 2021 alone

And yet one officer makes about $300,000 in one year

Prisons and jails collude with phone companies by price gouging phone calls between caged human beings and their families

Doubling down on the economic damage done to criminalized communities
Cages aren’t constructed to rehabilitate, but to disappear — for profit

And the more damaged people are by their caging, the more likely they are to return (churn)

So they only pay incarcerated workers 50 cents an hour on average — shrinking opportunities for outside connection
The War on Drugs?

Well, like police violence payouts, it’s a war on a taxpayers

And like police themselves, it only serves the rich
Militarization?

No, letting your little local PD collect weapons of war for use on you and your neighbors

Will NOT reduce your tax bill, or the millions or billions your town or city gives each year to police to NOT prevent crime

And only solve 2% of crimes that occur
Now ponder how much time police spend harassing, robbing, beating and arresting houseless people:

It’s probably their number-one job (after texting their friends and gambling online)

And it’s a vicious, useless cycle that costs the victims their dignity and taxpayers millions Screenshot of an @AWKWORDra...a white cop earning $100k t...a woman cop earning $100k t...an Asian cop earning $100k ...
That extra money you gave your local police for training?

Welp, they’re using that money to learn how to more instinctually and efficiently dehumanize and murder you

And no, that’s not hyperbole
The death penalty HAS to be a good investment, right!?

I mean, we get to kill them instead of letting them use prison resources for life!

No. No it isn’t.

The #DeathPenalty is just another violation of international law (like solitary) — and perhaps the greatest grift of all A split image, cut by a wav...
How do cops ensure we keep covering their asses?

Unions.
Foundations.
Paid-off politicians.
Uninformed reformers.
The copaganda machine.

And making life nearly impossible for anyone who even once gets caught in their clutches.

@CivRightsCorps’s own @equalityAlec explains: A screenshot of the title o...A screenshot from an articl...
“How much money are we paying right now so you’ll beat us down?”



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Nov 6, 2023
Health insurance companies are using AI to automate rejections.

This is a *not* good application of #ArtificialInteligence “How algorithms are being used to deny health insurance claims in bulk” (PBS, 04/02/23)
An AI bot performed insider trading and then “lied about it”

(This is a *not* good application of #ArtificialIntelligence)

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Politicians swore they’d never let robots decide which of us would die

“But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves are already killing people in combat, and have been for years”

(This is a *not* good application of #ArtificialIntelligence)

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Feb 26, 2023
I spoke with @kamaufranklin, who co-founded @CommunityMvt after years with @MXGMNyc in NYC, about Cop City in Atlanta and what it means for liberation movements in the US and worldwide

“We’ve got to get to a place in our movement where we’re winning some of these struggles, but we can only have that when the lulls happen and we’re not falling apart”

@kamaufranklin on what we can learn from #StopCopCity — even if we *don’t* win

@kamaufranklin “You will catch hell if you continue to work on this project. It will be the hardest work you’ve ever done” - @kamaufranklin to the city, corporations and developers behind Cop City

Want to #StopCopCity? Here’s what *you* can do — wherever you live

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Sep 8, 2022
#AndrewJosephIII was a beloved honor roll student and athlete.

February 7, 2014, the 14-year-old Black child was murdered

And police did nothing; he was already their *target*.

For years, the Joseph family has fought for justice — to no avail.

Today, we share their story

🧵
2/7/14 was Students Day at the Florida State Fair in Tampa.

That’s when county sheriffs targeted, harassed, searched, photographed and kidnapped #AndrewJosephIII and 98 other Black children — as young as 8

And abandoned them on the side of a busy interstate, 2 miles away
After being stranded by cops 2 miles from his ride home on 2/7/14, #AndrewJosephIII was forced to cross a busy highway

And was struck and killed by a white motorist.

The cops did not arrest or even breathalyze the driver

And they didn’t call Andrew’s frantic parents.
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Aug 22, 2022
The person seen on video getting his head smashed in by three cops in Arkansas?

*He* is facing charges of terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, 2nd-degree battery, trespassing, aggravated assault, and possession of an instrument of crime

The perpetrators? Still employed ImageImage
If you’re confused, read this thread on wandering cops
If you’re surprised, read this thread on qualified immunity
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Jun 28, 2022
Ever hear of the School of the Americas (SOA)? It’s at the US military base in Fort Benning, GA.

This American school is where we train South American soldiers to slaughter their own people…

And where we trained Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd

moderaterebels.com/fort-benning-s… ImageImage
Minneapolis cop and convicted killer Derek Chauvin likely being at the School of the Americans while I was there protesting American imperialism is a mere blip in America’s expansive history of inextricably tying the Military and Prison Industrial Complexes 🧵 Image
As the CIA was buying up loads of cocaine and planting crack in Black neighborhoods throughout the US, they — and every other govt institution — were also busy financing coups across Latin America and the world in the name of a War on Drugs
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Jun 1, 2022
There’s a reason the far-right wanted @BetaCuck4Lyfe in a cage.

Now free of the shackles of eMonitoring (‘prison by an another name’), the PDX activist who took on an armed Nazi sent me

A LIST OF EVERY SINGLE CITY OF UVALDE EMPLOYEE — INCLUDING THE COPS

govsalaries.com/salaries/TX/ci… Alexander Dial (aka Beta) p...
The Catch:

The latest info on the City of Uvalde website is 2 years old

When you click on an employee on the list, it doesn’t tell you their position — only their salary

When you click on the ‘full profile’ button, it takes you to a 3rd party data broker

Was this true May 23? the year filter option, dis...The 2020 employee list on t...An example of the employee ...A screenshot of what happen...
The entire Uvalde police department — now refusing to cooperate with state police — must be held accountable (@TENDEMANDS 4)

But even that won’t solve our problems.

Cops are not the answer to mass shootings or hate crimes — in spite of the copaganda
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