Earlier this week, after an inquest jury essentially vindicated London police officers in the 2011 killing of 29 year old Mark Duggan, authorities announced that, henceforth, some number of London’s 2,300 firearms-carrying officers would begin wearing vest-mounted video cameras. And, as much as I consider myself a privacy advocate, and despise our ever expanding surveillance […]
Tag Archives: police brutality
Every cop with a gun should also be outfitted with a video camera
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernard Hogan-Howe, big brother, California, David Ware, excessive force, Gary Schiff, London, Mark Duggan, Minneapolis, police, Police Foundation, privacy, recording the police, Rialto, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, the militarization of the police, Tony Farrar, video, video surveillance 17 Comments
Housing incentives for municipal employees… is now the right time?
A few days ago, in a post about the recent string of downtown burglaries, I noted that, given that we have fewer police on the streets these days due to budget cuts, it might help if those police officers that we did have working for the City, actually lived here. I don’t know that it […]
Posted in Detroit, Ideas, Ypsilanti Also tagged Eastern Michigan University, Elvis Costello, EMU, getting more local employees to live in Ypsilanti, housing, housing incintives, Lee Azus, Live Downtown, municipal employees, Murph, puppet public service employees, residency, residency rule, Susan Martin, Ypsilanti Fire Department, Ypsilanti police department, Ypsilanti Township 21 Comments
Which of these three videos do you find most upsetting?
First, we have video of a peacefully protesting Iraq war veteran by the name of Kayvan Sabehgi being severely beaten by Oakland riot police. It’s being reported that his spleen was lacerated in the attack. Next, we have Daily Show corespondent Samantha Bee exposing the class divisions taking shape between protesters in Zuccotti Park. The […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann-Marie Murrell, Birthers, Daily Show, George Soros, Jennie Jones, Jennique Stewart, Kayvan Sabehgi, Muslim, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, PolitiChicks, Snopes, The Patriot Update, Victoria Jackson, Zuccotti Park 15 Comments