"We are a community group working to build community power toward abolishing police surveillance."
I've just noticed that when police post in their social media, they rarely use the word "allegedly".
There was a post from NSW police the other day about a young guy who was caught speeding (200+ km/hr), the cops literally posted a picture of his car in which his licence plate is visible and detailed information about what (allegedly!) happened, but never once used the term alleged/allegedly.
I find it interesting, because I guarantee anyone who talks about the cops doing anything wrong gets absolutely stomped for not using those terms.
..and it will get worse with the new Bail laws in Victoria.
..and it'll get worse if Dutton gets in as pm.
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Rate of Indigenous people in jail has risen by 20% since 2019,
Closing the Gap data shows
New data reveals child protection, incarceration and suicide rates getting worse
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
@existentialcomics There was a picture of like 9 cops protecting one nazitruck.
Fuck these nazi fucks.
I had a friend who was not interested in hearing about police overeach or abolishing police. He was one of those people who thought we need police. Then he was arrested for something dumb and he had a mental health crisis behind bars and now he's dead. The Redwood City, CA Jail sees a lot of suicides. (or murder?)
Handsome, educated, white, cis male, he grew up in a wealthy area and had an expensive education. I'm here to tell all of you, if it can happen to him, no one is safe. #AbolishPolice
“Progressive” provincial govt fires whole elected Victoria school board because they follow mountains of evidence indicating police should be kept out of schools. “Progressive” Victoria city hall constantly+violently displaces people who are desperate+have nowhere to go; also actively disregard evidence re poison drug supply. Schools+hospitals (esp emerg) are grotesquely underfunded. Cops, whose main job is to brutalize+target the most vulnerable, get more millions. 
In Gedenken an #AlexisGrigoropoulos
Am 06.12.08 von der Polizei in #Athen getötet.
„Der Geist der Freiheit kommt immer mit dem Messer zwischen den Zähnen“
https://enough-is-enough14.org/2020/12/06/athen-dezember-2008-der-geist-der-freiheit-kommt-immer-mit-dem-messer-zwischen-den-zaehnen/ @enough14GNU
More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms
A New South Wales government program that gives police discretion to divert people found with small quantities of illicit drugs away from the courts has only been extended to 6.9% of people caught, including just 2.6% of those who are Indigenous.
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So, nurses and midwives ask for 15% and get told no. Meanwhile cops get offered 40%.
#AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Nurses #nursing #NSWNMA #Union #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace
Watching more people crying about those two police dogs that were killed being left in the back of a locked cop car, than ever said shit about the Ngaanyatjarra Elder and Culture Man who was literally cooked to death in the back of a prison transport van in 2008.
[white men's opinions not wanted]
About 5 years ago one of my lecturers set up a meeting for me with an academic who had just started working at my university.
He was a criminological researcher doing a big project on sex workers, and she (my lecturer) thought we'd get along academically and I might possibly be interested in him as my eventual phd supervisor or something..
We had a chat over the course of about an hour, mostly about his research, but he asked at one point what I was thinking with regards to a phd topic.
At the time I was interested in looking at the incidence of sexual abuse within the police force, so I set out my argument to him:
We know that there is a much higher incidence of domestic violence perpetrated by police against their partners and kids.
We know that people reporting DV aren't taken seriously by the police they're reporting to, often to the extent where they are given misinformation like 'we can't act unless he actually *does* something'.
We know that people reporting sexual assault are often not taken seriously as well,and are often given misinformation like 'rape is actually really hard to prove, are you sure you want to report this?'.
...i wonder if there is a higher incidence of people with a history of perpetuating sexual assault in the police force?
...i wonder if they commit those assaults while in the police force, or if the job attracts people with that history?
Using the questionnaire from the Lisek & Miller study and the McWhorter study, I could survey students in a number of different fields and see if there is a higher number of people doing policing who self-report having used these rape-behaviors.
I could also do a follow up on the same students (although I'm not sure how because having the study not be anonymous would confound results) to see if their responses change after being in the police force for a number of years.
..he just looked at me and said that he doubted there was a higher incidence of DV perpetuated by police, and that he was certain that the reports that happened are angry partners targeting those cops with vexatious reports because they know it'll have big consequences for their careers.. and shut down the entire conversation immediately.
He's a critical criminologist, and wasn't interested in even having the slightest bit of curiosity about police being violent.
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"When she reported to police that he would repeatedly call her and hang up – an action she felt breached the apprehended domestic violence order she had taken out against him – she says an officer told her she was being a “vexatious ex-spouse” who was trying to cause trouble."
#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #NoJusticeNoPeace #DomesticViolence #GenderedViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW #Academia #Uni #university #Criminology #CriminalJustice
Put them in a coffin’: could debate over Queensland’s ‘youth crime crisis’ take a dangerous turn?
While data suggests youth crime rates are at near-record lows, it’s become a totemic issue in the election campaign and that has Indigenous academics worried
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Well, I mean.. if an Australian government denies they're being anti-Indigenous, they must be telling truth 
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NT government denies that planned crime reforms are form of ‘racial control’
Former NT attorney general alleges Country Liberal party is planning law-and-order changes aimed at controlling Indigenous people
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #RegionalAustralia #RuralAustralia #AusPol #Australia #NT #NTPol
“..the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm.
Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path of the hurricane that was roaring towards it across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, will not be evacuating, a representative of the jail told Newsweek on Tuesday.
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During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, hundreds of incarcerated people were left in the Orleans parish prison for four days during the deadly storm. Those incarcerated were left locked in their cells amid rising flood waters and without food or water.
Other Florida jails and prisons have also said they will not evacuate during Milton. Correctional facilities in the counties of Sarasota, Hernando, Pasco, Charlotte and Lee will also remain in place during the storm, according to 10 Tampa Bay, a local outlet.
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“When my son was sentenced, he was not given a death sentence,”
#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #Criminology #CriminalJustice #NoJusticeNoPeace
