Notes on laws & law enforcement
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland
Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/24/police-huntsville-alabama-mental-health-call/
In a letter released Thursday, Wolf, the acting DHS secretary, said, “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.”
“A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice,” Wolf wrote, denigrating protests against racism in the U.S. criminal justice system as an angry mob. “To attack it is to attack America.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
Karen Bass, an African American Democrat now in her fifth term.
crack provoked benighted policies that “criminalized a public health problem.” Leaving her position as a clinical instructor at the University of Southern California’s Department of Family Medicine, she founded in 1990 the nonprofit Community Coalition (CoCo) to devise nonpolice measures for addressing crime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-karen-bass-is-the-right-pick-for-joe-bidens-vp/2020/07/07/66e9910e-c086-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story
Those who want to remake a police model that has set off unrest and despair would do well to look at the experiences of Asia, Africa and Europe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/world/police-brutality-protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/seattle-autonomous-zone-chop-shootings
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism
https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/how-americas-wars-in-asia-militarized-the-police-at-home/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/seattles-chaotic-autonomous-zone-11592435610
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/police-chiefs-fatal-shooting-atlanta
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/movies/oj-made-in-america-review
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zone
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn