Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by anigbrowl on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:02PM
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Indeed, but they've had many years in which to deliver and have manifestly failed to do so. Reform should of course be the first recourse when you discover a problem, I don't bulldoze my house if if I discover a leaky pipe or a crack in the wall. If you know there are massive persistent problems and you keep saying 'now's not the time, let's reform this slowly and carefully' then at a certain point you're just procrastinating in hope that the problem goes away.
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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by usaar333 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:14PM
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> Indeed, but they've had many years in which to deliver and have manifestly failed to do so
This is highly dependent on locality. I don't claim to follow broader national trends, but certainly things in the Bay Area have improved significantly in the last 2 decades.
e.g. SJPD has seen encouraging reductions in use of force over the last five years (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/29/as-police-decry-georg...)
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by anigbrowl on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:25PM
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That's nice, but then why did San Jose police mount such a violent response at the demonstration last week, with one officers running around yelling things like 'let's get this motherfucker' and 'shut up bitch'? When called on to respond as a department they defaulted to gassing protesters and then citing the violent response as a post-facto justification for doing so.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/31/lets-get-this-motherf...