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Should Officers Be Forced To Wear Body Cams?

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 CopBlock 1740 Views Accountability, accountablity, ancillary equipment, body, body camera, body camera footage, body cams, body worn cameras, bodycams, Brutality, cam, camera, Civil rights, civilian complaints, community concerns, community policing, cop, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, data storage and management, decrease in civilian complaints, decrease in use of force incidents, Dishonesty, duty, evidence, film the police, Filming police, Footage, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, PERF, Perf's report, police, police accountability, police body cameras, police body cams, Police brutality, Police Executive Research Forum, promote transparency, rights, rundown live, sample of police departments, shooting, Surveillance, survey, tablets, training, Transparency, use of force, video

More police departments are now requiring their officers to wear body cameras as a way to promote transparency in light

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Fresno City Council Rejects Beware Surveillance Software (For Now)

April 7, 2016 Dylan Donnelly 1263 Views Accountability, ACLU, address-specific public data, american civil liberties union, back-end algorithms and variables, bells and whistles, Beware software, Booker T. Lewis, CA, California, Civil rights, color-coded threat levels, community involvement and participation, community policing, contract, controversy, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, facebook, Faith in Community board, first responders, freedom, Fresno, Fresno Bee, Fresno City Council, Fresno Peoples Media, Fresno Police Department, grant, Harassment, homeland security, Illegal search/entry, Instagram, Intrado, Justice System, Michael Lee, pastor, police, Police Chief Jerry dyer, Police State, potential danger to responding officers, public skepticism, rights, Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, social media, Surveillance, trustworthiness, Twitter, Update

The Fresno City Council rejected a proposal by Police Chief Jerry Dyer Thursday to purchase the Beware software the police

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Culture Revelation: American Cops Train with Scottish Police, Face Flawed Warrior-Cop Culture

February 13, 2016February 13, 2016 Isiah Holmes 3480 Views Accountability, alcoholism, America police, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, beaten, Blogger, Boston PD, Brutality, California, Chief Mike Chitwood, Chuck Wexler, Civil rights, community policing, cop block, cop culture, cop killing, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, counter terrorism, Daytona Beach, depression, deprogramming the individual from culture, drug use, Drug war, excessive force, exonerated, Florida, freedom, good shooting, guardian-centric policing, guardians of the community, gung ho parolees, Homicide, Hostage negotiation, hostage negotiator, Illegal search/entry, isiah holmes, journalism, Justice System, lapd, militarized police, Milwaukee PD, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn, new york police, New York Times, no victim no crime, NY Times, obsolete model, police accountability, police shootings, Police State, police training humanizing, politics, proportionate outcome, quotas, raw story, rights, Scottish field trip, Scottish Police, strike the root, suffocated, superficial wounds, tasered, Transparency, unarmed cops, violent eternal cycle, Warrior Cop, writing

Often intermingled with discussions of American political and societal systems is the question of what we can learn from other

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If You Want True Reform, Abolish The Police!

February 5, 2016February 4, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2078 Views #BlackLivesMatters, 1st Amendment Rights, abolish the police, Accountability, african-american, anarchism, assault, Bad apples, black panthers, body cameras, Brutality, C4SS, cbs, center for a stateless society, chicago, City of Furgeson, Civil rights, commentary, community policing, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Darren Wilson, Department of Justice, destroying evidence, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, feedback, ferguson, ferguson police department, film the police, first amendment rights, for-profit prisons, force, fox guarding the hen house, freedom, gov jay nixon, Harassment, Homicide, IL, Illinois, Justice For Michael Brown, Justice System, kelly patterson, lack of accountability, Michael Brown, Minorities, Missouri, MO, neighborhood watch, Nick Ford, no crime, people of color, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police misconduct, Police State, police training, police violence, Prison, prisoners, protests, punishment, Race, racial element, Racism, reform, reforms, restitution, revenue generation, rights, st. louis county, strike the root, System, Thomas L. Knapp, tip of the iceberg, traffic stops

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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NYPD Will No Longer Discipline Officers For “Minor Infractions”

September 21, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1433 Views Accountability, Broken Windows theory, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Clinton Administration, community policing, copblock, copblock.org, cops not Disciplined For Minor Infractions, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Internal Affairs Bureau, justice department, Milton Mollen, minor infractions, New York Times, nypd, NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, police accountability, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

Under the guise of “community policing,” NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton is changing the way his department disciplines its officers

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“Fresno Police Focus on Building Relationships, not Making Arrests” – Fact or Fiction?

May 10, 2015July 16, 2015 Dylan Donnelly 1285 Views building relationships not making arrests, CA, California, community policing, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, FPOA, Fresno, Fresno Police Department, Fresno Police Officers' Association, Harassment, Jerry "selfie" Dyer, Jerry Dyer, Laughing at Young Children Eating Snow Cones, lies, police, police accountability, Police Union, President Bill Clinton, Propaganda, Public Relations, WaPo, washington post, zero tolerance

“In Fresno, police focus on building relationships, not making arrests“, is the original headline of an article published by Washington

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Copwatching and Its Impact On Policing, Law, and Justice in the California Law Review

April 15, 2015April 15, 2015 Georgia Sand 1292 Views Accountability, black panthers, Brutality, California Law Review, cameras, Civil rights, Class, community policing, cop blocking, copwatching, Corruption, court, Deterrence, Deterring Police Abuse, Disrespect, double-standards, facebook, Filming police, first amendment, Foul Language, fourth amendment, Jerome Skolnick, Jocelyn Simonson, Law, lawsuits, Legal Analysis, Legal Meaning, Legal Scholars, Litigation, Neighborhood, New York University, New York University School of Law, Organizations, Race, social change, social justice, social media

Jocelyn Simonson, Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, reached out to Cop Block contributors late

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Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America

August 15, 2013January 1, 2014 CopBlock 1011 Views Anti-Drug Byrne Grants, Baltimore City, Baltimore City Police Department, community policing, DHS, dispute resolution, end the drug war, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, FBI, Featured, Federal marijuana raids, forced-entry police raids, huffington post, police accountability, police culture, police militarization, Radley Balko, swat teams, war on drugs, Whitey Bulger

Mike Donnelly shared this post via CopBlock.org’s submit page. I spend a lot of time in Baltimore city where I

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