tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post8962718942608712127..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: necropolitics: how the iraq war began in panamaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-2046740284462826412014-12-27T11:21:46.181-06:002014-12-27T11:21:46.181-06:00Same rule applies for understanding the difference...Same rule applies for understanding the difference between cow grazing supporting militias and "hands up" docile protesters.....and how they approach TPTB<br /><br />http://youtu.be/oOtfjcIfuYoEd Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-16292515698871560252014-12-27T10:49:35.135-06:002014-12-27T10:49:35.135-06:00I'm approaching it from the Subrealist mindset...I'm approaching it from the Subrealist mindset: religion priming and knowing that you're being watched changes rationalized cheating behavior more toward socially and morally acceptable behavior. It even works on sociopaths. I don't have any links handy, but you can start your dive down the rabbit hole by looking at the research and writing from Dan Ariely. These bad apple cops have shown no change when citizens film them. Oftentimes, it's even encouraged worse behavior because these cops will confiscate cameras from citizen video reporters.Dale Asberryhttp://life-abundantly.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-11775994648585548692014-12-27T09:56:24.231-06:002014-12-27T09:56:24.231-06:00I find this argument to be BS - asking the police ...I find this argument to be BS - asking the police to police themselves. The community should have their own cameras in place to deal with not only rogue cops but rogue individuals like this dude who got his behind shot pulling out one of those crappy $159 Asian-made 9mm that jams and late discharge a bullet (due to half-ass hammer striking) that you pray won't blow up inside the chamber while you holding it. We can go further with research and show that communities that established street cameras not only have lower crime but better cooperation with the police because the community can see and know who the police are.Ed Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-16712030393664633142014-12-27T09:30:06.144-06:002014-12-27T09:30:06.144-06:00I believe the more accurate narrative is how Fergu...I believe the more accurate narrative is how Ferguson began in Panama. The thing about Panama is they allowed their country to host US military installations and allowed the US military to engage in military drills and ramp up - Noriega never complained, even after he voided the elections in the spring of 1989 and ruled as a military dictator. So when things got down in December, we didn't "invaded" a damn thing - we were already there and just had to roll out of bed and take over. <br /><br /><br />In America, the same narrative where we are allowing the police to embed in our communities as a military, conduct intelligence gathering and practice drills and deadly force engagements and we sitting around doing nothing...just waiting for them to one day, roll out of their beds and take over these communities in a military fashion as the ultimate quick/dirty urban gentrification option.Ed Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-25165542763668936082014-12-27T03:02:13.585-06:002014-12-27T03:02:13.585-06:00In addition to simple compliance, i.e., activate t...In addition to simple compliance, i.e., activate the cameras <b>or else</b>, there's the intransigent barrier of the fraternal orders of overseers (unions) that seem for all intents and purposes to only serve the interests of the bad overseers and the devil may care what opprobrium they bring to the overseers who actually attempt to live up to their peace officer oath. www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/david-brooks-the-union-future.html <br /><strong>GETTING RID OF BAD COPS</strong> A small percentage of cops commit most of the abuses. <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/can-the-nypd-spot-the-abusive-cop/" rel="nofollow">A study by WNYC News in New York</a> found that, since 2009, 40 percent of the “resisting arrest” charges were filed by just 5 percent of New York Police Department officers. In other words, most officers rarely get in a confrontation that leads to that charge, but a few officers often get in violent confrontations.But it’s very hard to remove the bad apples from the force. Trying to protect their members, unions have weakened accountability. The investigation process is softer on police than it would be on anyone else. In parts of the country, contract rules stipulate that officers get a 48-hour cooling-off period before having to respond to questions. They have access to the names and testimony of their accusers. They can be questioned only by one person at a time. They can’t be threatened with disciplinary action during questioning.<br />More seriously, cops who are punished can be reinstated through a secretive appeals process that favors job retention over public safety. In The Atlantic, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-police-unions-keep-abusive-cops-on-the-street/383258/" rel="nofollow">Conor Friedersdorf has a riveting piece</a> with egregious stories of cops who have returned to the force after clear incompetence. Hector Jimenez was an Oakland, Calif., cop who shot and killed an unarmed 20-year-old man in 2007. Seven months later, he killed another unarmed man, shooting him in the back three times while he ran away. The city paid damages. Jimenez was fired. But he appealed through his union and was reinstated with back pay.<strong>CAMERAS</strong> There’s long been talk about equipping cops with wearable cameras. In Miami, Boston, and Wichita, Kan., city officials bandied about such plans, but the local unions moved to thwart them, arguing, in one case, that wearing cameras “will distract officers from their duties, and hamper their ability to act and react in dangerous situations.”CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com