ok not participating in this is one thing, but having someone show up to do this is *chef’s kiss*

Does a “reform” further empower your enemies or take power and resources away from them? Some of you need to sit with this question.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The Treasurer of Alderman Chris Taliaferro’s ‘29th Ward Democratic Organization’ is proud far-right racist and misogyny troll / election lawyer Pericles Abbasi. Of course Taliaferro is annoyed about collecting complaints about ICE. He’s a fascist.

Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

nothing makes me angrier than the fact that cops are allowed to SHOOT TO KILL if you have knife

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

"And the marquee entry on his résumé is his eight years, from 2011 to 2019, as mayor of Chicago, a city that eats politicians alive. He made mistakes and enemies. They’ll come back to haunt him." Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>

Memphis has been experiencing a show of force similar to those in cities like Minneapolis, where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of agents to enforce its immigration crackdown. But backlash has been far more muted in Memphis, where Republican state leaders support the operation.

As was true in 2020, an actual work stoppage by even a single NBA team (ie the Timberwolves) would be tremendously powerful although I’m sure that everyone who has direct access to these players is telling g them not to do that. Athletes, know your own power.

I will keep reminding good people of Chicago that this is what our city council’s corporate caucus alders prioritized in their deceptive “alternative budget“ campaign. They want to serve their corporate overlords & have you be mad at @mayorofchicago.bsky.social whom they obstruct at every turn.

People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.

The fact that so many people have bought into the fiction that there is only one abortion "reporter," and it's a person who makes constant mistakes, should scare you even if you don't care what I think

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When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

It's horrific but also this is pretty much a regular arrest. That's how violent arrests are. I am glad people can see it and be horrified -- that's what police are out there doing every day, legally. Every 3 seconds basically.

Google isn’t what it used to be but under all the bloat the search algorithm still has it

And don't get me started on the 20 years reign of terror and actual TORTURE by Commander John Burge and his midnight crew. They zapped people's testicles with cattle prods, as just one example.

Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...

it’s so funny that this is their solution to yeeting the head tax

does anyone here know anyone interested in running my Ja Morant essay???? Or places I could pitch???

There’s a huge public safety emergency and the only state structure are police. Communities are defending themselves on their own. But it’s sad the headline is “ice undermines faith in police.”

"we need the murderous police to arrest the murderous ICE agents even though they are all working together" do you hear yourself

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Police are singularly poor responders for DV incidents and the Chicago Police Department knows this. They have proposed that DV response could be independently operated within the Department. This is not a compromise position. DV services should not report up to a police superintendent.

The CPD directive on immigration enforcement could be changed pretty easily to define interfering with rapid response as collaboration with ICE, but that would require affirming the importance and usefulness of rapid responders comparative to the police, so it will never happen.

THE SPLIT SECOND IS THE UNIVERSAL RATIONALE FOR STATE VIOLENCE

“News organizations” are running the hell out of this story because they see their function not so much to report facts but to enforce social norms like “police officers are automatically deserving of respect to a degree it is newsworthy if someone is mean to one of them.”

If you listen to the agents, or read their reports, they absolutely believe your words are actual violence. Disrespect is violence.

I think the history of police reform provides a very clear cut counter example

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

Current CCPSA President Remel Terry has systematically blocked progress on things like ending pretextual traffic stops, so people should probably expect similar here.

We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.

Funnily enough, I checked in with CTA and they're actually urging Chicagoans not to be alone with Ald. Jim Gardiner after dark.

Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Authoritarians use performative lying to mark who is for, and more importantly, against their regimes. The point isn’t determining truth. The point is creating an ingroup whose loyalty is assured through ritually denying reality and an easily recognizable outgroup that refuses the delusion.

Violence budgets are over-inflated as is. Piling on more money to further professionalize the people committing the violence doesn't change the core dynamics: what they're there to do, who they target, and what they can get away with doing. Polishing impunity just makes the unaffected feel better.

the chicago police department has asked a federal judge to block the deposition of superintendent larry snelling in an ongoing lawsuit against the cpd's traffic stops. lawyers argue he's too busy to answer questions. the motion from december 17: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the use of force laws in this country make it so that cops’ right to self-defense is more important and worthy of protection than the due process rights of anyone they hurt, which kinda gives the whole game away

The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.

Sadly this is correct, and no one likes it because people want to see punishment. The same process that created the problem cannot solve it. The only way is to remove power and money (which are the same basically).

I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.

A general reminder that ICE has killed & lied about it before - as local reporting from @unraveledpress.com in Chicago demonstrates here: unraveledpress.com/what-happene...

We don't have to live like this.

Do you know who Willie Horton is? What about Laken Riley? How is it that you came to know these things? Ok, now. Without googling, how many Jan 6 rioters have recidivated? Been charged with violent or child-sex crimes? What are their names? Who were their victims? More on the disparity here.