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A collection of videos of police brutality

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Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#111

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

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Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#112
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Tangentially related: anybody have links for good op-sec guides for creating a site that might make dangerous people pissed off?

How about [This Page Is Anonymous](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220048)?

Anonymous-site-as-a-service must be a thing.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#113

Is the issue with police brutality a lack of evidence? Not trolling, legitimately asking this. It feels like every year some viral video comes out where police do something horrible, it feels like little progress has been made on the issue. Is it simply a visibility problem?

Is it simply a visibility problem?

Several generations of recorded American history tell us: no.

Decent ethical sense tells us: absolutely, emphatically no.

Nothing about this is simple.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#114

Can you also add all the times cops are abused and murdered on the job, trying to protect innocent people? Thanks.

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...

Yep and how many people did the murderers kill each year? https://www.statista.com/statistics/195331/number-of-murders...

16,000+ in 2018. Now run the numbers on how many murders there would be with no police.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#115
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Can you also add all the times cops are abused and murdered on the job, trying to protect innocent people? Thanks.

I'd be happy to send you the code for the site if that's something you want to setup?

Impressed with the civility of replies to the many people ITT being ‘status quo warriors’. Good work on the website.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#116
post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know, I'm trying to be careful/selective about what I put on the site. Only clear oversteps should be shown in my opinion

Would you be willing to also add an explanation of why you put each video up? This could quite easily be abused with selective editing.

Yes I'd be happy to. I will work on that as soon as I get a chance but might not have the time tonight.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#117
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Tangentially related: anybody have links for good op-sec guides for creating a site that might make dangerous people pissed off?

If you can rely on audience being quite technical, IPFS is a pretty good, very censorship-resistant approach. There are some IPFS bridges that make viewing content easier.

If IPFS is out of the question, I'd look for hosting services that talk openly about being censorship-resistant. Won't give any links, but there are a couple, even if slightly shady looking.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#118

not saying there is no value in this initiative, just a reminder, that a camera always hides more than it shows - unknown unnowns etc...

I dont know why this gets downvoted so much. Let me elaborate:

i have witnessed Police brutality first hand. Even here where we dont go through much of the authoritarian training americans are used to, i.e christian churches with heavy influence - here religion is merely a nostalgic thing.

I know also that even here victims of Police brutality basically have No Chance of retaliation.

That beeing said, a video that looks ugly does not necessarily mean the Police acted wrong.

Ok i bite, Link a Video and i will come up with a story that atleast explains the police behaviour, If not justifies it.

Re: A collection of videos of police brutality

#120

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…

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 doubt this is a very long list, limited only by human rhetorical ingenuity.
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