Also... fuck the police!

No words needed!

„In der neuen Folge „Off/On“ geht es um Rassismus, Daten und Polizeigewalt. Interviewgast Mohamed Amjahid ist Journalist und Autor. In seinem neuen Buch zeigt er, warum die Rede von rechtsextremen Einzelfällen bei der #Polizei irreführend ist, sondern ein systemisches Problem vorliegt….“

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/288-on-the-record-was-ist-das-system-hinter-der-polizeigewalt-mohamed-amjahid/

Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere
Why Police Body Cameras Won’t Make Us Safer

"We know that police violence is a real problem in the #US, and it makes sense that people are strategizing ways to protect themselves and their loved ones from being assaulted or murdered by the police. Many who are concerned about this issue have begun advocating for police to wear video cameras on their uniforms.

The idea is that cameras will prevent police violence, or at least hold officers accountable after the fact. Groups like Campaign Zero (a reformist Black Lives Matter offshoot) and the American Civil Liberties Union are advocating this measure, and even police departments themselves, after initial resistance, have signed on. But the idea that more cameras translates to better accountability (however we define this) relies on a faulty premise.

Police get away with murder not because we don’t see it, but because they’re part of a larger system that tells them it’s reasonable to kill people. From lawmakers, judges, and prosecutors to juries, citizens, and the media, every level of society uncritically supports and transmits the police point of view. In this atmosphere, police can murder with no fear of repercussions."

https://de.crimethinc.com/2017/03/16/cameras-everywhere-safety-nowhere-why-police-body-cameras-wont-make-us-safer

Happy 1312!

In Anbetracht der Übergriffe, Willkür, Militarisierung und Gewaltexzesse der deutschen Polizei, gibt es eigentlich nix zu feiern. Dafür aber ein paar Links zur Selbsthilfe:

https://copwatchleipzig.home.blog/material/

https://t.me/copwatch_dresden

https://t.me/CopwatchBerlin_reports

Green Scared #Zine

"At the end of 2005, the #FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements—known as the Green Scare—with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This offensive, which they dubbed Operation Backfire, was intended to obtain convictions for many of the unsolved #Earth Liberation Front arsons of the preceding ten years—but more so, to have a chilling effect on all ecological direct action.

In this analysis, originally published in Rolling Thunder in 2008, we review everything we can learn from the Operation Backfire cases, with the intention of passing on the lessons for the next generation of #environmental activists."

https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared

The "copaganda" epidemic: How #media glorifies police and vilifies protesters
"How the pro-police focus of #mainstream crime reporting misdirects policy discussions and blocks real solutions.
(...)
Last year, Project Censored identified news coverage of protests by #BlackLivesMatter as an egregious example of "News Abuse," the Project's term for distorted, misleading coverage of genuinely important news topics. Legacy and corporate media portrayed #BLM demonstrators across the United States as violent and chaotic, despite subsequent evidence that, in 97 percent of cases, protests were peaceful and nonviolent. At the time, alternative and independent media carried very different stories, some with headlines accurately describing "police riots."
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/08/the-copaganda-epidemic-how-media-glorifies-police-and-vilifies/?s=35

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
"More notably, researchers analyzed the data to show how officers spend their time, and the patterns that emerge tell a striking story about how policing actually works. Those results, too, comport with existing research showing that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/