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criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

taking a forensics class and watching the professor explain one by one how criminal profiling, hair microscopy, and bite mark analysis are all pseudoscience responsible for ruining innocent lives, and how on top of that, fingerprint analysis, despite being significantly more reliable, is subjective and prone to contextual bias. and also bullet striation analysis has the same issues. and also bullet lead analysis doesn’t work. and also handwriting analysis has an error rate high enough to render it useless

damn i'm almost starting to think the entire criminal justice system only exists to provide the illusion of protection while justifying state violence idk

this is it, the "criminal profiling is bollocks" post which if we could find the damn link we'd add "and so is body language reading" to

Context: This is a grocery store in the town of Black Mountain, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene. The police will not let anyone in to get food or clean water or even baby formula and diapers, not even if they have cash to pay. This is being framed as "stopping looters". This is apparently the best thing the cops have to do with their time, during a widespread emergency.

The store has no power - the food will rot anyway.

The Police inspectorate published their report of the Metropolitan Police in London.

THAT’S LIKE YOUR WHOLE THING!!!

Please keep this circulating. Cops are getting more and more brazen, know your rights!

good to know

Reblogging every time this goes past

I had to learn my rights the hard way…read this, study it, memorize it, this is insanely valuable information.

This is actually very helpful, thanks!

As a criminal justice student, I will say this is pretty accurate and extremely valuable info that everyone should know. Learn it.

Quick warning that the post doesn’t really go into: DO NOT OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR UNTIL YOU HAVE A VALID WARRANT. Sometimes, I do not have personal experience as to the frequency, a cop (see: bastard) will stick their foot in the door when you open it so you cannot close it again, and if you try to force it shut you will be “assaulting” an officer.

I think that people who balk at the phrase "all cops are bastards" might be helped out with "good cops don't last."

Sooner or later, every cop will encounter a situation where they can be complicit or try to do something about it. A good cop will try to do something about it. They will encounter immediate resistance, and will be pressured to shut up and be complicit (whereupon they cease to be a good cop). If they persist, they can expect to be fired, harassed, thrown in a mental hospital, or even directly physically attacked and murdered.

Hell, if they're in the NYPD, after they're done with you they'll probably make a commemorative challenge coin about it.

All cops are bastards because good cops don't last. You are absolutely not allowed to be a good cop.

So that it’s easier to digest:

Proposals to defund the police

Police Household: 49.2% Support

Non-Police Household: 30% Support

Proposals to dismantle the police

Police Household: 52.2% Support

Non-Police Household: 30.1% Support

Proposals to redirect money from LAPD budget

Police Household: 63.7% Support

Non-Police Household: 50.6% Support

TL;DR: Cop Households are more anti-cop than non-cop households, and they’re the ones who have to live with cops and deal with cops daily.

"Don't forget that cops are real people with families and lives. Do you really want to take their livelihoods away?"

Ma'am THEIR OWN FAMILY WANTS TO TAKE THEIR LIVELIHOOD AWAY. We're not saying anything special or new here.

Just maybe "person with gun" isn't the one who should show up when someone is in the middle of a crisis

"y’all think this is a joke because it happens to black people until it happens to you and ur kin too."

People joke, call Black women that tell the truth and uncover white supremacy's long game (Sydette Harry, I will cite you, RIP Shafiqa Hudson) all types of monstrous and ignorant, decide that Black people are Russian bots, which interestingly enough, would be completely in the interest of Russia, insult, threaten. And then one day it's the hangover and everybody asks "how the fuck did it happen ?" And I'm not theorizing here. I'm talking about what I've witnessed since around 2014.

they could never make me trust cops

Reblogged this before reading the notes, so now I'm editing my reblog to note that this story is 7 years old, the nurse sued and won, the cop got fired, laws and policies got changed to further protect patients and healthcare workers

Source on the settlement from BBC. Source on the ensuing bill that clarified laws around police obtaining blood tests. This case is notable enough that it has a Wikipedia page

feels like bashing my head against a brick wall trying to talk to the like... carceral feminist but trans ally kinda people who get shocked ur not super on board with harsh prison sentences for hate crimes and don't think "better diversity policies for prisons" any "have the cops magically stop being transmisogynistic" is a good solution.

like sorry but I'm a million times more likely to end up in prison than anyone who attacks or abuses me. and I'm probably a million times more likely to end up in a mens prison than a man is too.

"more minority cops and more cops who are niceys to minorities" is not the revolutionary idea some ppl seem to think it is. u gotta think about the contradictions under capital!

local transgender woman with complicated gender marking in area with history of transmisogynistic violence in prison "not too enthusiastic" about prisons or empowering the violent enforcers of the bourgeoise state. witnesses baffled

sorry that reminds me of the actually fucking vile "you're stupid for hating cop city because at least the cops will be more competent even if they're not less racist" shit as if "incompetence " is why they keep murdering people of colour and abusing sex workers.

it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops

I mean, it has been noted before, but my understanding is that the NYPD are functionally just a rival crime syndicate

extremely weird for white communists to act like abolition and communism are incompatible when the people who basically founded the movement against police and prisons in the us were all communists. we can talk about the need for communist states to protect themselves from counterrevolution all day but for people who are so found of citing material reality, material conditions etc etc to ignore the historical basis of policing and prisons in the us and how they function as part of the white supremacist capitalist system is just??? ofc this shit needs to be abolished? maybe log off and read actual books about abolition before dismissing it as an unrealistic, idealistic or radlib idea.