That must have been posted somewhere on copmonkey (or parler) or whatever the hell cops look at when they're not watching MMA or spartan movies.
Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed?
Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters.www.vice.com
arstechnica.com
More important: why did they fucking get them to begin with?New York lawmaker wants to ban police use of armed robots
Use of Boston Robotics’ Digidog intensifies concerns about police militarization.
jalopnik.com
Border Patrol agents allegedly use “complexion codes” to describe people they’re apprehending, according to the report. More than 96% of those arrested are described as “Black, Dark Brown, Dark, Light Brown, Medium Brown, Medium or Yellow.”Over Two Thirds Of Drivers Arrested By U.S. Border Patrol In Michigan Were Stopped For Looking At Squad Cars Funny
Detroit is home to the busiest land border crossing in North America, responsible for roughly 27 percent of all merchandise trade between Canada and the U.S. Naturally it has a robust U.S. Border Patrol presence, but the lengths that this federal law enforcement agency will take to stop anyone...
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newyork.cbslocal.com
innocenceproject.org
www.bostonglobe.com
m.startribune.com
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The problem is, this is totally plausible...but someone pays with their life when it happens. It's how screwed up the system is.Just shout tazer when you murder someone
CNN : A Minnesota police chief says the officer who fatally shot Wright shouted "Taser!" but fired a gun instead.
Police fire tear gas at protesters in a second night of demonstrations after Minnesota officer fatally shoots Black man
A suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter grabbed her gun instead of her Taser during an arrest and fired a shot that killed a 20-year-old unarmed Black man Sunday in what authorities said was an "accidental" shooting.
A novel adaptation of the "I thought he had a gun" argument with "I didn't know I had a gun".
that is NOT totally plausible. Guns and tasers are carried on opposite hips, have a 1-2 pound weight difference, look NOTHING alike and nobody is going to convince me she made an honest mistake. It's just not believable. THAT SAID, even if we accept she made a mistake she needs to be charged with manslaughter, like immediately.
I have a MS in Human Factors/Ergonomics and errors like this are discussed and the science behind them. It's basically that a few times out of say, 10,000, the cop would pull the taser out when they meant to pull the gun out. A few other times they would pull the gun out when they meant to pull the taser out. The brain goes into an "automatic" process in these cases and they *think* they are doing it the right way. Hit Rate, Correct Rejection, False Positive, etc. Signal detection theory. This is why we automate tasks, because machines do not do this. The consequences of this type of error can be dire, death in this case. One of the problems is that our whole system of "non-lethal" is pretty screwed up and the system is set up for the officer to "engage". Like why engage when you can just follow them until you have adequate support to not have to place in a life-and-death situation, etc. No matter how "good" the human is, this will always make up a small % of situations, unless you somehow design the hazard out of the system, like only give them tazers. That may not be a realistic solution, but it's just used to illustrate what would have to change to make it not happen. Then people would still get tazered where the human did honestly/knowingly not intend to use it, but then we go around the circle again. Training can help to mitigate, but it's a poor control, because it does not remove the hazard and the error will still happen.
Didn't manimal move to NM?
New Mexico Just Banned Qualified Immunity
Lawmakers passed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, banning qualified immunity, on Wednesday. The measures is a major step toward greater police accountability and justice.
AZ I believe.
Well, that's the "punish the individual" idea rather than "fix the system", just waiting until the swiss cheese holes line up perfectly again for the next person that gets killed due to something similar.
Her job by the sounds of it.
But of course that gets more coverage than what the cops did last night. Not talking about the shooting, I mean what they did AFTER the shooting.
www.startribune.com
minnesotareformer.com
Honest mistake. Being so new to the job, handling completely foreign objects like "gun," "taser," "black kid"........I mean what even are these things anyway? Could have happened to anybody.
