that first map tho… damn
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Why should kids be taught to hate the police? Because there are 2.3 million people in jail in the US right now and every single one was put there by a fucking cop. Some people talk about good cops and bad cops, but a good cop, a cop doing their job properly, still puts nonviolent drug users in jail for many years, totally ruining their lives as they lose their jobs, houses, cars, romantic partners, access to college, and become substantially less employable upon release. A cop doing their job properly still gives homeless people tickets for vagrancy which they obviously can’t pay and when a warrant is issued as a result an officer doing their job properly arrests those homeless people. An officer doing their job properly peppersprays and arrests environmental protesters so that logging companies can clear-cut old growth forests. An officer doing their job properly is evicting a family from their home as you read this because the parents’ jobs were shipped overseas so that the bosses could make eight figures a year instead of seven. Those people will become homeless, vagrancy tickets will be written, warrants will be issued… And then there’s the “bad ones”.
Sacking Rome: A Magazine for Vandals, Issue 1 (via nerd-kingdom)
Internal documents from the Chicago police department show that officers used physical force on at least 14 men already in custody at the off-the-books interrogation site known as Homan Square. The new information contradicts an official denial about treatment of prisoners at the facility.
Police used punches, knee strikes, elbow strikes, slaps, wrist twists, baton blows and Tasers at Homan Square, according to documents released to the Guardian in the course of its transparency lawsuit about the warehouse.
The injured men are among at least 7,351 people – over 6,000 of them black – who, police documents show, have been detained and interrogated at Homan Square without a public notice of their whereabouts or access to an attorney. None of the men identified in the documents detailing the use of physical force had fled custody or were injured in the course of a lawful arrest. All were subject to force by Chicago police officers after they were already in custody at Homan Square. Some of those beaten by police inside Homan Square told the Guardian they have experienced chronic pain or impairment years later.
In a statement to the Guardian, the Chicago Police Department said: “The Chicago Police Department takes allegations of excessive force very seriously. … We stand behind our initial statement and our unwavering commitment to the highest levels of accountability and professional standards for our officers.”
Read the full investigation in The Guardian and stay tuned for more special reports on Homan Square this week.
Things to Stop Tolerating
1. Toxic relationships and environments.
2. Rudeness and a lack of basic courtesy.
3. A disregard of healthy and appropriate boundaries.
4. Being constantly used and disrespected by others.
5. Hiding your true self, or your personality.
6. Feeling bored and empty, or feeling life lacks meaning.
7. The pressure to “just settle”- and give up on your dreams.