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Paingod wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:07 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:43 pm Do I need to read to find out what this means

restorative justice resolution

I hate to say it, as I strongly dislike Doxxing, but it least she lost her job. She did not get off scott free in that respect. Otherwise I'd be looking for my pitchfork rather than simply strongly disapproving.

In a slightly darker timeline, the man she reported would have at least been arrested and potentially even killed by the cops and she'd have been responsible. I'm very okay with her having learned a lasting lesson and not just getting a finger waggle.

Minneapolis authorities are investing in six social media influencers, with a large local following, to help push their message and prevent riots during the murder trial of a fired police officer. On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council approved $1,181,500 for communication with the community during the trial.

The City says the six influencers will be intentionally targeting Black, Native American, Somali, Hmong and Latinx communities with their messaging during the trial. Each influencer will be paid a flat fee of $2,000.

In a full statement from the Minneapolis City Council, they said:

The City is collaborating with social media partners to share public information with cultural communities and to help dispel potential misinformation during the upcoming trials of the former officers involved in the killing of George Floyd. The goal is to “increase access to information to communities that do not typically follow mainstream news sources or City communications channels and/or who do not consume information in English. It’s also an opportunity to create more two-way communication between the City and communities.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:42 pm the Minneapolis City Council approved $1,181,500 for communication with the community during the trial.

six influencers ... Each influencer will be paid a flat fee of $2,000.

Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.

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The study, posted in February as an online preprint item on the Social Science Research Network, is the first of its kind to measure a possible correlation between BLM and police homicide numbers. It found that municipalities where BLM protests have been held experienced as much as a 20 percent decrease in killings by police, resulting in an estimated 300 fewer deaths nationwide in 2014–2019. The occurrence of local protests increased the likelihood of police departments adopting body-worn cameras and community-policing initiatives, the study also found. Many cities with larger and more frequent BLM protests experienced greater declines in police homicides.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:59 pm Some interesting data:

Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.

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The study, posted in February as an online preprint item on the Social Science Research Network, is the first of its kind to measure a possible correlation between BLM and police homicide numbers. It found that municipalities where BLM protests have been held experienced as much as a 20 percent decrease in killings by police, resulting in an estimated 300 fewer deaths nationwide in 2014–2019. The occurrence of local protests increased the likelihood of police departments adopting body-worn cameras and community-policing initiatives, the study also found. Many cities with larger and more frequent BLM protests experienced greater declines in police homicides.

Last year, an alarming increase in homicides left communities — often in lockdown — reeling as officials searched for answers. That was evident at lots of news conferences as police officials and mayors in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City rolled out dire news.

At the end of 2020, Chicago police reported more than 750 murders, a jump of more than 50% compared with 2019. By mid-December, Los Angeles saw a 30% increase over the previous year with 322 homicides. There were 437 homicides in New York City by Dec. 20, nearly 40% more than the previous year.

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:43 pm I'm not sure of your point - are you trying to draw a conclusion? It would seem the study covering 2014-2019 has nothing to do with the data you presented given the wildly different world we were living in in 2020.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:11 pm I wonder how much of that increase in murders is due to an increase in domestic violence. I seem to remember reading that domestic violence in general went way up last year after the lockdowns went into effect.

Researchers noted the smallest year-to-year rise in homicides in March through May — indicating stay-at-home orders likely suppressed homicide rates to a certain extent — and saw a large, "statistically significant" spike in June, coinciding with the easing of lockdown restrictions.

At the same time, the pandemic was exacerbating societal drivers of gun violence that have for years disproportionately impacted communities of color such as income, housing and health care inequalities and food insecurity. Many police departments struggled as COVID-19 spread through their ranks, possibly affecting efforts to focus on crime "hot spots," Rosenfeld said. And efforts to engage with people most at risk — whether through community policing efforts by law enforcement or civilian outreach workers — were also severely restrained by the pandemic.

Jaymon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:20 pm Very little about 2020 matched any of our known statistical norms.

I could say, murder was up because there was so little traffic due to pandemic, murderers were never getting stuck at red lights on the way to their potential victims houses, which in previous times caused them to have time to reflect on their choices and decide NOT to murder anybody. And my theory is just as likely to be accurate any anybody else.

Kentucky’s Republican-majority Senate on Thursday moved forward a bill that would make it easier to arrest protesters for insulting a police officer, a measure that critics say would stifle free speech.

The bill, passed two days before the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, would make it a misdemeanor to taunt or challenge an officer with words or gestures “that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.” Conviction would be punishable by up to 90 days in jail and fines of up to $250.

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In addition to criminalizing taunting police, the bill would expand the category of protest behavior considered illegal, heighten sentences for offenses related to “riots” and prevent early release for those violations. It comes as Louisville, Kentucky’s largest city, prepares for hundreds of people to gather downtown Saturday to recognize the first anniversary of Taylor being fatally shot during an early-morning raid.

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Other language in the bill seeks to counter the movement to “defund the police” by requiring that local governments “maintain and improve” funding to their law-enforcement agencies. The bill also protects people who use “defensive force” during a riot and criminalizes bringing items that could be used as weapons.

misdemeanor to taunt or challenge an officer with words or gestures “that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.”

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

It would check most of my boxes if it weren't for red/blue polarization. That was barely even a consideration when I wanted to live there. I'd still be enamored of KY if it were even a purple state. Wife even has a couple of relatives in Lexington, which is at least a purple oasis. But I could never never be OK with a state that thinks Moscow Mitch is a fine senator.

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

It would check most of my boxes if it weren't for red/blue polarization. That was barely even a consideration when I wanted to live there. I'd still be enamored of KY if it were even a purple state. Wife even has a couple of relatives in Lexington, which is at least a purple oasis. But I could never never be OK with a state that thinks Moscow Mitch is a fine senator.

Lorini wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:49 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

It would check most of my boxes if it weren't for red/blue polarization. That was barely even a consideration when I wanted to live there. I'd still be enamored of KY if it were even a purple state. Wife even has a couple of relatives in Lexington, which is at least a purple oasis. But I could never never be OK with a state that thinks Moscow Mitch is a fine senator.

The only KY senator worse than Mitch is Rand Paul. What an asshole.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:08 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

It would check most of my boxes if it weren't for red/blue polarization. That was barely even a consideration when I wanted to live there. I'd still be enamored of KY if it were even a purple state. Wife even has a couple of relatives in Lexington, which is at least a purple oasis. But I could never never be OK with a state that thinks Moscow Mitch is a fine senator.

I once had a wonderful time at a wedding in Lexington. I met plenty of friendly locals (friends and family of the bride), but I still felt like I was in a more conservative zone than even the Atlanta suburbs I had come from.

An annual list that is regularly dominated by titles covering LGBTQ+ issues, the ALA’s Top 10 most challenged books contains a number of anti-racism titles for the first time in 2020. Although the list was topped for the third year running by Alex Gino’s George, the story of a fourth-grade transgender girl, Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds’ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, a history of racism for children and teens, was the year’s second most challenged title. In their complaints, parents claimed that Stamped contained “selective storytelling incidents” and “does not encompass racism against all people”, said the ALA.
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Another book by Reynolds, the current ambassador for young people’s literature in the US, came in third on the ALA’s list. All American Boys, written with Brendan Kiely and following an act of police brutality towards a young Black teenager, and the white teenager who witnesses it, was challenged because it was “thought to promote anti-police views”, contain divisive topics, and be “too much of a sensitive matter right now”, said the ALA.

Picture book Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice, which follows one Black and one white family after the police shooting of a Black man, made the ALA’s list for the first time for “promot[ing] anti-police views”. In October, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association wrote to Minnesota’s governor to ask that the state stop recommending it for primary schools, saying it “encourages children to fear police officers as unfair, violent, and racist”.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:42 am it sounds like the "most challenged books" list is a good place to start.

The list: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/freq ... ooks/top10

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:04 am It just blows me away the way racism has been defined in the last ten years.
I grew up with Negro being an acceptable term. And Indians instead of Indigenous People. Just for a couple of examples. In my head I still think like this but I know better than to say these things out loud. Altho I have no dislike or hatred of any minorities I guess I could still be considered a racist. After thinking a certain way for seventy years it's hard to change. My wife is still confused about the proper etiquette too.
I can see how the festering of a lot of white people is boiling over now.

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:43 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:08 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Madmarcus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:28 am Once upon a time, when I was deciding where to live after college, KY was high on my list. I'd had a couple of fun vacations there in my teens, and it's a beautiful state with a perfect climate (or at least, it was in the '70s).

I still sometimes think that parts of KY look great for climate, cost of living, and so forth. But I don't think I could stand it.

It would check most of my boxes if it weren't for red/blue polarization. That was barely even a consideration when I wanted to live there. I'd still be enamored of KY if it were even a purple state. Wife even has a couple of relatives in Lexington, which is at least a purple oasis. But I could never never be OK with a state that thinks Moscow Mitch is a fine senator.

I once had a wonderful time at a wedding in Lexington. I met plenty of friendly locals (friends and family of the bride), but I still felt like I was in a more conservative zone than even the Atlanta suburbs I had come from.

I made three trips to KY with friends when I was in my teens and early 20s. Each trip -- one to Lexington, one to Louisville, and one into the Cumberlands -- was quite different, and all were magical fun. I'd tell those stories if it weren't such a huge derail. Maybe in another thread on another night. On topic (sort of): before America became so politically and culturally polarized, I really loved KY. It's a shame that it's another country now.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:04 am It just blows me away the way racism has been defined in the last ten years.
I grew up with Negro being an acceptable term. And Indians instead of Indigenous People. Just for a couple of examples. In my head I still think like this but I know better than to say these things out loud. Altho I have no dislike or hatred of any minorities I guess I could still be considered a racist. After thinking a certain way for seventy years it's hard to change. My wife is still confused about the proper etiquette too.
I can see how the festering of a lot of white people is boiling over now.

noxiousdog wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:26 pm

Indian is also very problematic. There is a wide range of indigenous people spanning two continents and there is no consensus. Many to most are find with "Indian." The best option is to use the name of the tribe to which they identify whenever possible.