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👺 with @stoplapdspying and @LACANetwork
Feb 23, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
It looks like @deray was meeting with Eric Garcetti as early as June 10 last year to peddle police reforms no one wanted. @lapdcommission was so excited about it they emailed him for details. This was nearly a week after local organizers led by @LACANetwork @BLMLA and @stoplapdspying had publicly condemned the #8cantwait proposals that @deray was trying to sell to LAPD
Nov 21, 2020 7 tweets 5 min read
Check out how police reformers are working to increase LAPD's bureaucracy, training budgets, and data collection: Background: starting this July, LAPD convened several reform professionals, Obama administration officials, and nonprofit executives as an "Advisory Committee on Building Trust and Equity." LAPD announced this as "groundbreaking reforms." ImageImage ImageImage
Jan 23, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Chicago just shut down a “predictive" policing experiment that started in 2012. This report about has a bunch of alarming details about it, including info other cities have kept secret about their similar programs: igchicago.org/wp-content/upl… Chicago used algorithmic risk scores to run a program literally called “TRAP,” which targetted people for “enhanced prosecution" if police thought they had “propensity” for future crime