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A collection of videos of police brutality

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Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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There are people I would much rather that money go to than me. I will upgrade the server now though

If you need devs please let the community know. There are probably a fair number of people here that would like to help.

I've created a discord: https://discord.gg/5w2nz8. Right now it's making sure the server doesn't keep dropping off!

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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I did some digging around for this info, and I think this is important. In 2018, 55 police officers were murdered in the line of duty [1]. In the same year, police officers shot 995 people to death [2]. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/08/the-nu... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

Here's another one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

That's actually a far better source! You should probably post it as a direct reply. Also love that you can break down the data by several dimensions

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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The sad thing is, there are good jurisdictions (they may have their issues, but generally fair) around, yet local activists will use issue X in city Y as an excuse to blame their own local PD for some unrelated issue.

This is happening in Santa Cruz right now where local homeless “advocates” (more about themselves) are attempting to co-opt a protest to blaming SCPD on perceived slights regarding homeless issues. This is a normal tactic for this group.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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Remember a few years ago it came out that Apple filed a patent to disable cameras in a localised area. Speculation was so that law enforcement could disable cameras during protests and riots. In the next few days/weeks, watch if people start saying that they're in these hot zones and their camera phones stop working

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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post #56

Police brutality is a Bad Thing. There is also much lower hanging fruit in terms of saving lives and improving the world. About 1,000 people die in the US each year through encounters with the police. Over 400,000 people die in Africa each year from Malaria and we have very effective tools for combating it[1]. Police brutality is a big issue but the current media attention doesn't make "boring" causes less important…

Why stop there? Millions of people die of heart disease every year, so we’d better stop treating malaria until that’s sorted.

Society doesn’t actually have to solve one problem at a time. And that would lead to some pretty bizarre outcomes.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

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We can all rest easy, someone made a website.

Websites are literally the most efficient way to spread information. I know it's fun to rag on web-based Uber for X startups here, but this is actually useful. A deeper criticism would be warranted though, because this looks something that could also ripe for abuse.
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