Milwaukee Police News

Post by chris_wot » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:26 AM UTC

luke_s wrote: post #42

jpxxx wrote: post #13

It's militaristic, it's alienating, it's fetishistic, it's hostile, it insidiously portrays class and ethnic conflict as an everyday battle worth fighting, and it panders to the worst in Americans who already endorse the myriad excesses and injustices of an ever-growing quasi-private law and order machine that has ruined the lives of millions. But awesome job on the scrollbars, yo.

I live in Melbourne Australia and I have got to say, this is the first reaction I had as well. The imagery used on their website was frankly shocking. My first response was "WTF! Is this really how Americans see their police? Is their job to charge round shooting people?" Compare and contrast the pictures used on the 'about' page of the Victoria police website: http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=3 W…

Post by lmm » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:41 AM UTC

derleth wrote: post #51

> WARNING: We have detected that you currently have Javascript disabled. > This website requires the use of Javascript, for the best possible viewing experience we highly recommend that you enable Javascript via your browser's options. Do I really need to elaborate here? For the record, the site works (to some extent) in Lynx. But in Firefox without Javascript, they actually took the time to make it completely useles…

Post by rrreese » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 10:34 AM UTC

droithomme wrote: post #47

jpxxx wrote: post #13

It's militaristic, it's alienating, it's fetishistic, it's hostile, it insidiously portrays class and ethnic conflict as an everyday battle worth fighting, and it panders to the worst in Americans who already endorse the myriad excesses and injustices of an ever-growing quasi-private law and order machine that has ruined the lives of millions. But awesome job on the scrollbars, yo.

I'm also more comfortable with it as a ARG site for a fictional dystopian movie rather than a site for a real police department, which means it's obviously clearly a propaganda site, which I find disturbing and unsettling.

Post by tayl0r » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 11:18 AM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #19

Not only was this site posted just 16 days ago,[1] but as I commented at the time, scrolling the site causes 100% usage of one of my CPU's cores. This is still the case. The fact that so many people consider sites such as this to be "awesome" is one of the many reasons I'm glad I no longer work for clients. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436366

Post by rafedb » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 11:55 AM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #73

stephenlambe wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly what part of that website "portrays class and ethnic conflict"?

The part where the two actors are heavily armed police and a box of mugshots of minorities stamped MOST WANTED. Edit: Also it's worth noting that as of several weeks ago this was a much more elaborate site. It's been significantly toned down since.