#policing

[lilithism1848]

#fuck cops #all cops are bastards #police violence #fuck the police #abolish the police #cops #anti capitalism #leftism #communism #socialism #twitter post #anarchy #defund the cops #police #law enforcement #arrest #police brutality #killed #policing

[somethoughtseeds]

#defund the police #cops #the police #policing #usa #america

[reasonsforhope]

"Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, K–12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that began in 2017. These referrals and the 54,321 reported school-based arrests that same year were mostly for minor misbehavior like marijuana possession, as opposed to more serious offenses like bringing a gun to school.

School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students—especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities—are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system.

Getting caught up in the legal system has been linked to negative health, social, and academic outcomes, as well as increased risk for future arrest.

Given these negative consequences, public agencies in states like Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania have looked for ways to arrest fewer young people in schools. Philadelphia, in particular, has pioneered a successful effort to divert youth from the legal system.

Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program

In Philadelphia, police department leaders recognized that the city’s school district was its largest source of referrals for youth arrests. To address this issue, then–Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel developed and implemented a school-based, pre-arrest diversion initiative in partnership with the school district and the city’s department of human services. The program is called the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, and it officially launched in May 2014.

Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker named Bethel as her new police commissioner on Nov. 22, 2023.

Since the diversion program began, when police are called to schools in the city for offenses like marijuana possession or disorderly conduct, they cannot arrest the student involved if that student has no pending court case or history of adjudication. In juvenile court, an adjudication is similar to a conviction in criminal court.

Instead of being arrested, the diverted student remains in school, and school personnel decide how to respond to their behavior. For example, they might speak with the student, schedule a meeting with a parent, or suspend the student.

A social worker from the city also contacts the student’s family to arrange a home visit, where they assess youth and family needs. Then, the social worker makes referrals to no-cost community-based services. The student and their family choose whether to attend.

Our team—the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University—evaluated the effectiveness of the diversion program as independent researchers not affiliated with the police department or school district. We published four research articles describing various ways the diversion program affected students, schools, and costs to the city.

Arrests Dropped

In our evaluation of the diversion program’s first five years, we reported that the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia decreased by 84%: from nearly 1,600 in the school year beginning in 2013 to just 251 arrests in the school year beginning in 2018.

Since then, school district data indicates the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia has continued to decline—dropping to just 147 arrests in the school year that began in 2022. That’s a 91% reduction from the year before the program started.

We also investigated the number of serious behavioral incidents recorded in the school district in the program’s first five years. Those fell as well, suggesting that the diversion program effectively reduced school-based arrests without compromising school safety.

Additionally, data showed that city social workers successfully contacted the families of 74% of students diverted through the program during its first five years. Nearly 90% of these families accepted at least one referral to community-based programming, which includes services like academic support, job skill development, and behavioral health counseling...

Long-Term Outcomes

To evaluate a longer follow-up period, we compared the 427 students diverted in the program’s first year to the group of 531 students arrested before the program began. Results showed arrested students were significantly more likely to be arrested again in the following five years...

Finally, a cost-benefit analysis revealed that the program saves taxpayers millions of dollars.

Based on its success in Philadelphia, several other cities and counties across Pennsylvania have begun replicating the Police School Diversion Program. These efforts could further contribute to a nationwide movement to safely keep kids in their communities and out of the legal system."

-via Yes! Magazine, December 5, 2023

#philedelphia #pennsylvania #united states #us politics #school #high school #school to prison pipeline #prison system #arrests #education #students #schools #good news #hope #rare case of police not completely sucking #police #policing #law enforcement

[elierlick]

Same applies to every public transit system.

#trains #politics #police #policing

[charliejaneanders]

It is not a normal practice of the Owasso Police to release "piecemeal" information regarding the cause of death before the medical examiner issues a report.

Nex Benedict's mom raises doubts about police statements: It's a "big cover"

#politics #transphobia #police #policing #violence #hate crime #nex benedict #trans #nonbinary #non binary

[progressivemillennial]

#politics #us politics #progressive #capitalism #imperialism #war #poverty #mass incarceration #universal healthcare #healthcare #racism #acab #colonialism #policing #injustice #environmentalism #green #activism #political violence #forever war #inequality #oppression

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The City of Edmonton spent nearly $1.7 million to clean up homeless encampments last year — nearly 65-per cent more than in 2022, according to data provided by the city. City crews and the Edmonton Police Service also removed hundreds of more encampments in 2023 than the previous year, data shows. "It's outrageous that we spend that much money attacking poor people," said Jim Gurnett, a spokesperson with the Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness.  Cleaning up encampments involves parks and roads services staff and equipment such as waste services vehicles. Staffing and equipment vary based on size and location of the encampment, a city spokesperson told CBC News in an email.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #houselessness #homelessness #police #policing #acab #poverty #alberta

[isaacsapphire]

Saw a post about the sex offender list that kept repeating, "police love to get minorities for X crime" and I realized, both people who supposedly oppose the system and the system itself very intentionally frame police and police discretion as a more powerful and unilateral part of the system that it actually is, while ignoring or obscuring the rest of the system.

The DA's office decides what cases to drop and what to move forward with, and what punishments to request. The judges decide to throw out cases or let them continue, and then use judicial discretion in handing down sentences. And so on, I am not a legal expert yet, but there's a whole chain of people more powerful than some beat cop who chose to pursue or drop cases.

This all seems very convenient for the DA, as nobody is rioting to abolish or defund their office.

#criminal justice system #criminal justice #American legal system #original post #judicial system #policing

[queerism1969]

#killed #his #killing #police #arrested #police state #protests #policing #prison #reform #suspect #abolish the police #fuck cops #police brutality #fuck the police #abolish police

[defleftist]

I could be normal or I could go on long rants about why the police and the entire police system are evil and corrupt in a manner that scares normies. Guess which one I am?

#oops #leftist on main #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights #anti police #fuck the police #policing #law enforcement #police brutality #police state #police violence #anarchy #anarchist

[lilithism1848]

#police violence #xitter #all cops are bastards #socialism #anti capitalism #anarchy #communism #leftism #twitter x #rip twitter #twitter post #tweet #policing #fuck the police #defund the police #global politics #politics #fact checking #society #misinformation #sociology #usamerica

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Link: How Informed are Americans about Race and Policing? (skeptic.com)

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FYI, 2019 survey.

Difference between 2019 and 2021:

Note: "unarmed" does not mean "not dangerous."

https://boghossian.substack.com/p/wokeness-public-safety-blm-and-antifa

According to the Washington Post’s comprehensive database of police killings, police shot and killed 54 unarmed people in 2019, 26 were listed as white, 12 black, 11 Hispanic, and 5 “other.”

It’s also important to note that the majority of the twelve shot were actively trying to hurt or kill the officer. For example, in at least two of the twelve cases involving black men, the perpetrators were killed while trying to run over an officer with a car. In another, an individual took and used the officer’s taser on him. In another, a female officer was being physically beaten by a suspect when she fired. All those cases were classified as “unarmed.”

“Unarmed” never means “not deadly.” There is always a gun involved—the officer’s. In many encounters, the suspect is fighting to get ahold of it. In the Ferguson case, it was claimed that Michael Brown had his hands up when Officer Darren Wilson shot him, in cold blood, in the middle of the street. Upon investigation, the forensic evidence as well as a half-dozen black witnesses confirmed Officer Wilson’s account. Michael Brown tried to take Officer Wilson’s gun and was charging at him when shot. The “Hands up, don’t shoot!’ slogan was a lie.

Actual unarmed, unjustified killings are extremely rare; in the low single digits.

https://boghossian.substack.com/p/race-homicide-and-data

In reality, when you remove those cases from the data, you're left with one or two. One or two cases every year, out of a country of 350 million some odd people. One or two cases. That's what Black Lives Matter is focusing on. They have things to say about just about everything except the 7000 to 8000 homicides per year of young black Americans.

#Wilfred Reilly #Steve Stewart Williams #policing #police killing #police shooting #BLM #BLM riots #Black Lives Matter #2020 riots

[punkoftherealm]

Footage of arrests at the coronation

#not mine #uk politics #policing #police crime sentancing and courts act #the coronation #not my king

[triviallytrue]

There's a certain amount of violence and repression inherent to any system of policing, but it seems pretty clear that US police are significantly worse than police in other comparable countries in a lot of important ways. You read about the amount we spend on police and how much of that goes into overtime pay instead of hiring more people, the toothless nature of civilian oversight, the constant offhand racism and the body count that comes with it, the ganglike organizations that emerge within certain units, the lack of training, the abysmal clearance rates...

If you're a hardcore abolitionist, you don't really care about any of this beyond pointing out how much it sucks. But if you think that your ideal society involves some form of policing, understanding the difference between comparatively good and comparatively bad police departments is pretty important.

There's no single cause of all of these issues, but if I had to name a big one, the police unions seem like a focal point for siphoning money out of city budgets into the hands of career cops, inhibiting civilian oversight and control, making police forces more insular and ganglike, and preventing the firing of the most violent cops.

#policing #not saying anything especially novel here #just trying to lay some thoughts out

[racefortheironthrone]

What is, historically, the most effective anti-police corruption policy?

This is going to sound somewhat counter-intuitive, but historically the most effective anti-police corruption policy has been to simultaneously raise police salaries (thereby reducing the disincentive to take bribes etc.) and credential requirements (to limit the application pool to more qualified candidates), which goes double for supervisors and upper management.

#policing #criminal justice policy #historical analysis #history

[tygerbug]

https://gothamist.com/news/nassaus-gang-database-includes-names-with-no-explanation-or-vague-accusations-advocates-say

#itysl #i think you should leave #tim robinson #racist policing #police #policing #bart harley jarvis