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Let's add (former) Sergeant Javier Esqueda to my previous list of good cops who lost their jobs for doing the right thing. (There are some upsetting details of how someone died in police custody at the link.)
Article from The Baffler: Brutal Force. "There is no “war on cops.” Instead, the levels of violence police deploy against civilians seems grossly disproportionate to the level of danger they actually face from the public." (And again, plenty of disturbing police brutality listed in detail here.)
Netflix's Warrior Nun. So. Completely unnecessary voice-over that makes the story worse? Check. "Continental Europe" setting where people speak English with a random variety of accents? Uh-huh. A tragic lesbian dying in the pilot episode? Yup. Catholic priests in charge of secret demon-fighting forces that have to save the world from those demons? Yeah.
I was going to say more, but what else is there to say? It's bad, and it's entertaining. I'm planning to watch the rest. Thankfully the terrible voice-over falls into "so bad it's good" territory for the moment. I don't know if I'll finish watching season one if that changes for me.
Article from The Baffler: Brutal Force. "There is no “war on cops.” Instead, the levels of violence police deploy against civilians seems grossly disproportionate to the level of danger they actually face from the public." (And again, plenty of disturbing police brutality listed in detail here.)
Netflix's Warrior Nun. So. Completely unnecessary voice-over that makes the story worse? Check. "Continental Europe" setting where people speak English with a random variety of accents? Uh-huh. A tragic lesbian dying in the pilot episode? Yup. Catholic priests in charge of secret demon-fighting forces that have to save the world from those demons? Yeah.
I was going to say more, but what else is there to say? It's bad, and it's entertaining. I'm planning to watch the rest. Thankfully the terrible voice-over falls into "so bad it's good" territory for the moment. I don't know if I'll finish watching season one if that changes for me.
I've already vented a bit in a locked entry but: whooboy, do I have concerns about school starting up again. ( 'concerns' is too mild a word )
Two fandom-related links:
Pearwaldorf's tumblr post about AO3, its history, racism, and Franzeska.
Saathi1013's post "On White Fear & Creating Diverse Transformative Works"
More links related to police violence:
Two fandom-related links:
Pearwaldorf's tumblr post about AO3, its history, racism, and Franzeska.
Saathi1013's post "On White Fear & Creating Diverse Transformative Works"
More links related to police violence:
- Here’s How Many People Police Killed in 2019…We Think
- a Facebook post (I know) by a white woman married to a cop (I KNOW!)
- Google spreadsheet of police abuse incidents caught on photo or video since the protests began (current count close to 700)
- How (Not) to Cross the Street in Jacksonville
- Resisting Arrests stats in NYC (”resisting arrest” is a common way for police to disguise their violence)
- Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
- former FBI agent speaking about local policing and money
- Michael Harriot (journalist for The Root, all-around amazing writer) on policing and the media
- Ambulance services in the USA (and how this connects to defunding the police)
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More recent links related to police violence: this website is one of several efforts to document police brutality since George Floyd's killing prompted another round of protests. There's also a twitter thread currently with more than 500 separate incidents documented on video or photo (or both) from the last two weeks.
Two more links: first, The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them. Second, another twitter thread--a few of the blatant lies and other misleading or false statements made by the police about the protests.
My own suggestion if you want to do something by donating money: look for fundraising efforts related to people who have been injured in protests near you. Apparently a lot of the money-raising efforts for bail funds (for arrested protesters) are doing well enough at the moment.
Other links, entirely unrelated to the previous.
I'll have a post with some book commentary soon. I hope y'all are doing as well as possible in the current... everything.
Two more links: first, The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them. Second, another twitter thread--a few of the blatant lies and other misleading or false statements made by the police about the protests.
My own suggestion if you want to do something by donating money: look for fundraising efforts related to people who have been injured in protests near you. Apparently a lot of the money-raising efforts for bail funds (for arrested protesters) are doing well enough at the moment.
Other links, entirely unrelated to the previous.
- Twitter thread with some Oklahoma history: Have you ever heard the story about the gang of white outlaws who tried to rob a black-owned bank?
- The Soviet Military Program that Secretly Mapped the Entire World
I'll have a post with some book commentary soon. I hope y'all are doing as well as possible in the current... everything.
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- Free e-book (Kindle or epub): The End of Policing
- Free PDF download of the book The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
- I found that second link thanks to this twitter thread about the USA’s “war on drugs” (as a means to incarcerate black people)
- article: How Tear Gas Became the White Supremacist’s Favorite Poison
- To the good cops:
- Jay Park, who knew Georgia’s laws about intoxication better than his superiors, so he didn’t arrest drunk college kids. He got fired for not making what he knew would be illegal arrests.
- the NYPD’s Adrian Schoolcraft, the only cop many people on his beat knew because he tried to engage them in conversation. He was harassed by his colleagues and placed against his will in a psychiatrist facility after speaking up about arrest quotas and wrongful arrests.
- Cariol Horne stopped her Buffalo PD colleague from choking a handcuffed man. She lost her job and pension; he kept working. Later, when he pleaded guilty to federal charges, he was allowed to keep his pension.
- In 2011 Kyle Pirog spoke out about a fellow officer in their New Jersey township PD who committed perjury to obtain a search warrant, strip-searched a minor, and targeted people of color for traffic stops. Pirog was demoted and then suspended. His chief made Pirog report to that same officer whose conduct he had spoken out about. Eventually Pirog was forced to resign in 2014; he then filed suit. (It looks like he got his job back finally. I’m guessing that details have been suppressed but there’s a 2018 photo of Officer Pirog on Facebook and it’s labeled as a fun run for the Bedminster PD.)
- Regina Tasca stopped a fellow officer from beating a mentally ill young man. She was fired.
I currently have a Washington Post subscription so if any WaPo article links are paywalled for you, let me know and I'll get you the text.
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( links about police abuse )
I made the mistake of reading an older romance novel by an author I usually enjoy... but this book did NOT age particularly well. I mean, I've read books that have aged worse, but I was still dismayed. Bleh.
Currently reading Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, which one of y'all recced. It's fascinating. I'll say more when I finish.
I made the mistake of reading an older romance novel by an author I usually enjoy... but this book did NOT age particularly well. I mean, I've read books that have aged worse, but I was still dismayed. Bleh.
Currently reading Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, which one of y'all recced. It's fascinating. I'll say more when I finish.
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( Links related to George Floyd's killing )
This is the Dreamwidth trend of the day: I'll combing over my DW access list and removing access from anyone who hasn't updated in more than two years, given that Livejournal had a significant security breach. A bunch of people cross-posted from DW to LJ, or LJ to DW, and didn't necessarily have different passwords for the platforms. If I delete your access and you want to be here still, let me know.
Unrelated: I don't regret deleting my tumblr but there are some gems that I'm hunting down now to keep. This comic about sharks and the follow-up twitter and tumblr threads about the texture of sharks had me crying with laughter the first time I read it. It's still funny now, years later.
This is the Dreamwidth trend of the day: I'll combing over my DW access list and removing access from anyone who hasn't updated in more than two years, given that Livejournal had a significant security breach. A bunch of people cross-posted from DW to LJ, or LJ to DW, and didn't necessarily have different passwords for the platforms. If I delete your access and you want to be here still, let me know.
Unrelated: I don't regret deleting my tumblr but there are some gems that I'm hunting down now to keep. This comic about sharks and the follow-up twitter and tumblr threads about the texture of sharks had me crying with laughter the first time I read it. It's still funny now, years later.
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