Yup.
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Now understand that most people in jail in the US are not convicted criminals. Most people in jail in the US, are poor people in jail pre-trial, just like this woman.
They're disproportionately Black. Many are 100% innocent.
Most of what cops do, is fine/arrest poor Black people, for minor charges.
Back to our white lady.
We talked about how CECOT was a torture prison, because they put people in solitary confinement for 23 hrs a day.
And we talk about how slave labor camps are bad.
Prison guards can require this white lady to do free labor, using an exception to US anti-slavery laws.
This white lady could say, "Look, I'm innocent! This is all a big mistake! I just want to sit in my cell and mind my own business until the public defender can get this all sorted out! I don't want to make auto parts, or pick cotton on the prison farm!"
She can be sent to solitary for refusing.
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Back to our white lady.
We talked about how CECOT was a torture prison, because they put people in solitary confinement for 23 hrs a day.
And we talk about how slave labor camps are bad.
Prison guards can require this white lady to do free labor, using an exception to US anti-slavery laws.
This white lady could say, "Look, I'm innocent! This is all a big mistake! I just want to sit in my cell and mind my own business until the public defender can get this all sorted out! I don't want to make auto parts, or pick cotton on the prison farm!"
She can be sent to solitary for refusing.
Every police "use of force" policy is in place for a very good reason. But cop shows present them as obstacles that get in the way of justice being done.
In real life Detective Stabler is Derek Chauvin, and DA Jack McCoy is the DA that let Kalief Browder be abused in jail for 3 years while innocent.
There are so many Law and Order SVU fans. They believe that the police force spends a lot of its time and resources on solving sex crimes or crimes against children.
The reality is that after spending *billions* on policing, cops have the audacity to pretend that "Rape kit backlog" is a real thing.
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Every police "use of force" policy is in place for a very good reason. But cop shows present them as obstacles that get in the way of justice being done.
In real life Detective Stabler is Derek Chauvin, and DA Jack McCoy is the DA that let Kalief Browder be abused in jail for 3 years while innocent.
There are so many Law and Order SVU fans. They believe that the police force spends a lot of its time and resources on solving sex crimes or crimes against children.
The reality is that after spending *billions* on policing, cops have the audacity to pretend that "Rape kit backlog" is a real thing.
When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
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Yup.
The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:
1) Copaganda TV shows
2) Framing by newspapers and TV news
Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.
️@mekkaokereke And like everything I’ve learned about racism as a white person, once you see it, you can’t stop seeing it. I used to enjoy some flavors of Law & Order and the OG NCIS. Can’t anymore. The irony of the title “Law & Order” when the real message is “We could do so much more without all these pesky laws and judges!” Ugh.
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When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
@mekkaokereke My state rep is a blip of red in a mostly blue state. He was bragging about getting a grant for more equipment for our local PD. I told him they don’t need it, and he tried to frame it like I didn’t care about the safety of the officers. Their annual budget is 8 million. Pretty sure they’re doing just fine.
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When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
Copaganda convinces you that most of these people are running around being Detective Stabler, protecting women and children from abusers.
The reality is that most of them are arresting poor Black people for no reason, causing those Black folk to lose their jobs, housing, and custody of their kids.
I'll let you look up the increase in probability of a child being sexually assaulted once they enter the foster care system. Because again, if I told you how much more likely it is, you would not believe me.
Cops are not protecting kids from abuse. They're putting millions more kids in harm's way.
But many people believe that cops are protecting kids rather than causing more kids to be hurt, because they believe the disinformation of copaganda shows on news framing, more than they believe Black people or the police's own data, or their own "lying eyes."
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Yup.
The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:
1) Copaganda TV shows
2) Framing by newspapers and TV news
Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.
️@mekkaokereke I used to like the Rookie, but they got more and more violent, and then they began this season in another country to solve some crime? With all going on, I just can't anymore. American cops are not the good guys, if they ever were. And I am so tired of 'guns and murder are ok if you are fighting the bad guy.'
There was a show with Gary Sinise about FBI that went to other countries. I watched a couple of episodes but the absolute American arrogance was too much.
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When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
@mekkaokereke Is that Andrew Tate hanging out in the crowd of cops in the second image? If not, the dude looks just like him.
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When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
@mekkaokereke the budget for cops for NYC is half of the entire NASA budget ($24B). That's a comment on both how much NYC policing costs, and also how little we spend on science.
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Copaganda convinces you that most of these people are running around being Detective Stabler, protecting women and children from abusers.
The reality is that most of them are arresting poor Black people for no reason, causing those Black folk to lose their jobs, housing, and custody of their kids.
I'll let you look up the increase in probability of a child being sexually assaulted once they enter the foster care system. Because again, if I told you how much more likely it is, you would not believe me.
Cops are not protecting kids from abuse. They're putting millions more kids in harm's way.
But many people believe that cops are protecting kids rather than causing more kids to be hurt, because they believe the disinformation of copaganda shows on news framing, more than they believe Black people or the police's own data, or their own "lying eyes."
️@mekkaokereke Learning about your bail system and plea bargaining, in which even innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty in order to get a sentence less than the maximum if taken to trial, knowing that cops don't care about catching guilty people, are more interested in closing cases and once they focus on someone, they stop looking for more evidence with regards to anyone else, it makes one wonder how many innocent people are in jail.
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Copaganda convinces you that most of these people are running around being Detective Stabler, protecting women and children from abusers.
The reality is that most of them are arresting poor Black people for no reason, causing those Black folk to lose their jobs, housing, and custody of their kids.
I'll let you look up the increase in probability of a child being sexually assaulted once they enter the foster care system. Because again, if I told you how much more likely it is, you would not believe me.
Cops are not protecting kids from abuse. They're putting millions more kids in harm's way.
But many people believe that cops are protecting kids rather than causing more kids to be hurt, because they believe the disinformation of copaganda shows on news framing, more than they believe Black people or the police's own data, or their own "lying eyes."
️@mekkaokereke people consume copaganda like its Disneyland. (I think that makes sense) in reality though its poorly written supercop BS.
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@mekkaokereke Learning about your bail system and plea bargaining, in which even innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty in order to get a sentence less than the maximum if taken to trial, knowing that cops don't care about catching guilty people, are more interested in closing cases and once they focus on someone, they stop looking for more evidence with regards to anyone else, it makes one wonder how many innocent people are in jail.
@mekkaokereke Lately, there have been media reports of people accused of crimes because a traffic camera recorded their license plate while travelling through an area. One woman had to collect evidence that she wasn't who they were looking for because the cops refused to investigate what she had told them.
It's rather scary and getting scarier as this surveillance crap misidentifies people and lazy or overworked police forces don't care.
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When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.
I'm not.
So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.
@mekkaokereke TEN times the size of London’s metropolitan police force. For roughly the same population
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@mekkaokereke people consume copaganda like its Disneyland. (I think that makes sense) in reality though its poorly written supercop BS.
I have to remind myself sometimes how many people think Serpico is the bad guy.
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@mekkaokereke Lately, there have been media reports of people accused of crimes because a traffic camera recorded their license plate while travelling through an area. One woman had to collect evidence that she wasn't who they were looking for because the cops refused to investigate what she had told them.
It's rather scary and getting scarier as this surveillance crap misidentifies people and lazy or overworked police forces don't care.
@mekkaokereke Here are examples of the license plate thing:
"Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car"
Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car - Worldnews.com
CBS News investigates what happened when police thought they'd tracked down a "porch pirate" who'd stolen a package — and accused an innocent woman. "You know why I'm here," the police sergeant tells Chrisanna Elser. "You know we have cameras in that town..." "It went right into, 'we have video of you stealing a package,'" Elser said... "Can I see the video?" Elser asked. "If you go to court, you can," the officer replied. "If you're going to deny it, I'm not going to extend you any
(article.wn.com)
Woman accused of a drive-by shooting. She deserved more, but at least got some restitution.
Accused of car theft.
When license plate readers get it wrong
Automated license plate reader technology is used by law enforcement agencies in communities across the U.S. — but the systems sometimes get things wrong.
(www.cbsnews.com)
And in Ontario:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/automated-license-plate-readers-leads-to-arrest-in-chatham/
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Copaganda convinces you that most of these people are running around being Detective Stabler, protecting women and children from abusers.
The reality is that most of them are arresting poor Black people for no reason, causing those Black folk to lose their jobs, housing, and custody of their kids.
I'll let you look up the increase in probability of a child being sexually assaulted once they enter the foster care system. Because again, if I told you how much more likely it is, you would not believe me.
Cops are not protecting kids from abuse. They're putting millions more kids in harm's way.
But many people believe that cops are protecting kids rather than causing more kids to be hurt, because they believe the disinformation of copaganda shows on news framing, more than they believe Black people or the police's own data, or their own "lying eyes."
️And in case anyone thinks I'm being hyperbolic about the wide gap between how Law and Order: SVU presents the world, and the reality of policing, read thia article.
Gift Link from the writer, Nina Metz of the Chicago Tribune:
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Back to our white lady.
We talked about how CECOT was a torture prison, because they put people in solitary confinement for 23 hrs a day.
And we talk about how slave labor camps are bad.
Prison guards can require this white lady to do free labor, using an exception to US anti-slavery laws.
This white lady could say, "Look, I'm innocent! This is all a big mistake! I just want to sit in my cell and mind my own business until the public defender can get this all sorted out! I don't want to make auto parts, or pick cotton on the prison farm!"
She can be sent to solitary for refusing.
@mekkaokereke Forced labor for folks pending trial is NOT constitutional. The 13th amendment carveout explicitly states this: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". The requirement is having been convicted, not just being held pending trial.
This doesn't mean jailers don't apply it unconstitutionally anyway, but the text is abundantly clear.
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@mekkaokereke Forced labor for folks pending trial is NOT constitutional. The 13th amendment carveout explicitly states this: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". The requirement is having been convicted, not just being held pending trial.
This doesn't mean jailers don't apply it unconstitutionally anyway, but the text is abundantly clear.
@mekkaokereke Likewise, forced labor for folks imprisoned on immigration violations pending deportation proceedings is not constitutional. Because immigration violations are not crimes, even if a court has already found that a violation occurred.
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@mekkaokereke Learning about your bail system and plea bargaining, in which even innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty in order to get a sentence less than the maximum if taken to trial, knowing that cops don't care about catching guilty people, are more interested in closing cases and once they focus on someone, they stop looking for more evidence with regards to anyone else, it makes one wonder how many innocent people are in jail.
@CStamp @mekkaokereke I'm going to guess a lot, and those flock cameras need to go.
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@mekkaokereke Likewise, forced labor for folks imprisoned on immigration violations pending deportation proceedings is not constitutional. Because immigration violations are not crimes, even if a court has already found that a violation occurred.
@mekkaokereke I don't know if there are details I'm missing where authorities fought back against her rights, but the above case feels to me like an incredibly sad situation where neither she nor anyone who might care about her had any knowledge or expectation of having rights to challenge the bullshit arrest, extradition, and continued jailing. And that's way too common in this country, whether it's complete lack of education or well-informed cynicism about the authorities you're dealing with and the institutions that are supposed to protect you.
