Tangentially related: anybody have links for good op-sec guides for creating a site that might make dangerous people pissed off?
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A collection of videos of police brutality
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Re: A collection of videos of police brutality
#132Tangentially related: anybody have links for good op-sec guides for creating a site that might make dangerous people pissed off?
Retroshare!
Re: A collection of videos of police brutality
#133Can you also add all the times cops are abused and murdered on the job, trying to protect innocent people? Thanks.
Actually, I would LOVE to see this information. My understanding is cops kill way more often than they are killed. But I'd love to stand corrected. My understanding is the thin blue line is a myth. The real terrors are the cops. But again I'd love to be wrong.
> My understanding is cops kill way more often than they are killed.
Well, of course. That's expected isn't it? In an imaginary scenario where police act legitimately 100% of the time there are going to be situations where they have to use lethal force. In the same imagined scenario, there would be 0 legitimate police deaths.
If you're just going for some morbid score keeping, you would need to know illegitimate civilian deaths at the hands of the police vs illegitimate police deaths, as there are certainly scenarios where it could be justified to kill either. Directly comparing raw numbers doesn't say much.
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#134We 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.
"rag on" is a misogynist term (you were downvoted before i wrote that. i did not downvote)
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#135The 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…
It would be useful to put together a taxonomy of error modes that a social issue can have when it becomes famous. For example, accusing the victim of faking it ("crisis actors"), accusing protestors of overreacting ("thugs"), claiming that protestors have foreign elements making things worse ("auslander thugs"), and of course claiming that nothing happened to begin with, or the evidence for the claim was faked. No do…
Some claims are fake, though. Your strategy for distinguishing between true and false claims can't just be "oh I've identified that as an error mode".
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#136Police 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…
Otherwise known as the "but kids are starving in Africa" rhetorical fallacy.
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#137I have found an excellent resource [1] for data-driven policy that has been shown to reduce racism and abuse in police departments. I have written all of my local leaders who are up for election where they stand on each one of their ten points.
All of the requests on their website seem reasonable and it was really illuminating doing research on my local police force and seeing how few of them they've enacted.
Re: A collection of videos of police brutality
#138The 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…
This is similar to when a large company has lots of divisios,where in one only nice people work,while in other they are all assholes. But the problem is that despite these differences, they all sit under the same hat.In this case, it's the police and one bad action resonates and makes it even more difficult for the good people to do the job.In recent events,it should have been other policemen going out and screaming…
In many areas the policemen have been participating in the protests.
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#139Remember 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
Imagine being asked by your boss to implement such a thing and actually doing it. How spineless and unethical would you have to be to even consider following such an order.
You're assuming the speculation is the actual intent. What if it was something more benign, like allowing it to turn off cameras in a nuclear power plant or secure facilities or something like that.
Re: A collection of videos of police brutality
#140Remember 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
Imagine being asked by your boss to implement such a thing and actually doing it. How spineless and unethical would you have to be to even consider following such an order.
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