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From a Metropolitan Police Officer in Washington DC:
“I can’t say how this will end, but I can say what I will do in the meantime. I won’t be intimidated into silence about the failures and dangers posed to the country by the federal police takeover of the city. I will quit my job before I ever help Trump’s goons kidnap some random person for the crime of not being white enough.”

I’m a DC police officer. Here’s what Trump’s takeover is really about.
The federal occupation is terrorizing citizens, wasting taxpayer dollars, and actively making local law enforcement’s jobs harder.

The Los Angeles Sheriff's department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies
-- but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs.
They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have b…

LA sheriff ducks journalist’s request for deputy photographs
ICE won’t be the only secret police in town if the department gets its way

The UK's College of Policing proposes new rules to end years of police secrecy and suspicion in their dealings with journalists following the Leveson Inquiry (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-po

New police media guidance aims to reset post-Leveson culture of suspicion
The College of Policing has put forward proposals aimed at ending years of police secrecy and suspicion in their dealings with journalists.

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 13: Marianne Wheelaghan
A varied and highly talented writer who lives in Leith. From The Blue Suitcase, a gripping WW2 refugee story, to her fantastic police thrillers that are set in the Kiribati islands, featuring a character I adore - the Scottish detective Louisa Townsend, very good reads.
#FemmeÉcrivain

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
https://westseattleb…

UPDATE: Gas-leak response after hit-run driver crashes into house
9:18 PM: Avoid the area of 37th/100th in Arbor Heights for a while - a driver hit a house and a natural-gas leak is reported to have resulted. Police have blocked off 37th. They are telling dispatch it's a hit-and-run - the driver subsequently took off. So far the vehicle is described only as

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-charges-31-people-in-major-carbon-credit-fraud-investigation/

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation
Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […]

Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, company's flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability issues and more (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI Was Supposed To Speed Up Policing. It’s Not Going Well.
San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years later, it still hasn’t seen the benefits.

Georgian police crack down on protesters as thousands march on presidential palace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/georgian-police-crack-down-on.html

Members of the National Guard are rarely covered by the
Posse Comitatus Act because they usually report to their state or territory’s governor.
That means they are free to participate in law enforcement if doing so is consistent with state law.
However, when Guard personnel are called into federal service, or “federalized,”
they become part of the federal armed forces,
which means they are bound by the Posse Comitatus Act until they are returned to state contr…

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained
The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveille…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/27/25
How the internet radicalizes young men, The real-life damage of porn deepfakes, The JLR attack damaged local communities, Amazon is pushing into the police tech market, Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist

DC’s Police Union Head Is the Biggest Cheerleader of Trump’s DC Police Takeover;
Gregg Pemberton amplifies Trump’s crime narrative. He says it all goes back to the city’s policing reforms.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/28/d

DC’s Police Union Head Is the Biggest Cheerleader of Trump’s DC Police Takeover - Washingtonian
Soon after he ordered a federal takeover of DC’s police department, President Trump announced a Department of Justice inquiry into whether police higher-ups had manipulated data to give the false impression that crime declined this year. The announcement coincided with one of DC Police Union chair Gregg Pemberton’s Fox News appearances. In the segment, Pemberton—who

Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p50#a251006p50

NATO and the drones. This weekend, drones were flying spy missions over a Belgian Air Force base. Said the country's Defense Minister: "A helicopter and police vehicles chased the drone, but lost it after several kilometers.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/02/…

Drones spotted above Belgian airbase were ‘spying’ on military planes, defense minister says
Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions.

If there is any truth in these allegations, we really have to worry about that is going on in both AGS and GSOC.
The initial story was bad enough: the Irish police service being so incompetent that their statistics on homicides were wildly incorrect, and the whistleblower getting penalised; but this is batshit.

Garda whistleblower says she took work leave as she was ‘terrified’ of new analysis chief
Civilian was installed as Garda analysis bureau head after Lois West testified to Oireachtas about errors in homicide data

Last month, Judge Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice,
a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers,
of over three million registered voters as part of Trump’s M…

"House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down" #ELB
Time: Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire … Continue reading “House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down” →

The UK says all 43 police forces in England and Wales now have a dedicated journalist safety liaison officer for those facing threats of abuse and violence (Emily Atkinson/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvx589rl0o

Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says the move would be welcomed by journalists.

Why higher ed teaching is hard, and always will be. But we don't do it because it is easy, and we are trusted to do it well because we have hard earned expertise in our fields. Let's not undervalue that, hey?

From Translink
Free transit for veterans on Remembrance Day
Holiday fares in effect for other customers on Tue, Nov 11
Customers who are eligible for free transit include veterans, active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, police and fire personnel, Canadian Coast Guard members, officers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and BC Ambulance Service personnel. These individuals can present their badge, military ID, Veteran’s Service Card, or appear in uniform to a…

🥴 Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-cops-ketamine-largely-unregulated-mental.html

Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
Combining psychotherapy with low-dose ketamine, a hallucinogenic drug long used as an anesthetic, is a relatively new approach to treating severe depression and post-traumatic stress, especially in populations with high trauma rates such as firefighters, police officers, and military members. Yet evidence of the efficacy and safety of ketamine for treatment of mental health conditions is still evolving, and the market remains widely unregulated.

Because this has shown up trending every couple of days for the last week or so, these are not clowns from #Portland. These are clowns from Germany in 2007. #PDX has it's own creative resistence. Let's celebrate the real things they're doing right now.
If you see this picture with the wrong info, please help correct it and don't boost it. It's a great picture. I understand wanting it to be what's happening right now.
I'm just pulling all this info from the other folks who've been debunking it. Thanks to everyone who works hard to keep us all honest.
Receipts:
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/police-injured-in-germany-as-radicals-disrupt-2557545.php

Pure fiction.
This senior adviser to potus can’t even see that Oregon’s 6,695 sworn police officers are less numerous than the FBI’s ~13,700 special agents.
Stephen Miller shouldn’t be trusted to advise on a coffee order, let alone government policy. He is out of touch with reality.
Sources in comment.
#USpol

Using language about “rioters” at federal facilities, the Trump administration is fast-tracking the rule changes
— which critics say DHS could use as a pretext to go after protesters wearing frog costumes or making a racket on the streets of Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
The new regulations could empower the ⚠️Federal Protective Service,
a little-known police force under DHS tasked with securing federal facilities,
to pursue more arrests outside of federal property it…

Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks
The Trump administration’s new rules grant the Federal Protective Service cops powers to target masks and make arrests off federal property.

in a bad field of SF electeds, Matt Dorsey stands out as uniquely terrible. he's up for re-election next year: we should throw him out. #sfpol
https://mastodon.social/@eff/1153176660541…

Europe police bust global fraud ring that used German payment firms to launder millions https://therecord.media/europe-police-bust-global-fraud-ring-payment-firms

I am wondering when the moment will arrive that state police forces in states like Illinois will clash with ICE or is that unthinkable? Shouldn't the police protect the people against masked men doing illegal actions?
#trump #ice

I feel that way that news headlines talk about government proposals will often blur common understanding.
"Government grants new powers to police" is arguably only accurate for secondary legislation, I think it's misleading (both constitutionally and chronologically) to talk about the effect of future primary legislation (or amendments) using the past or present tense.

Some reactions to the current Indonesian protests:
- As far as the underlying issue goes, that of legislative pay, the protesters are in the wrong there, as legislators do actually deserve to be compensated for the extra expenses associated with the position
- That being said, the rights we consider "First Amendment rights" here in the US (speech, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances) are fundamental and should be protected. The protesters have a right to protest even if they are wrong about legislative pay.
- Furthermore, police response to the protests has been disproportionately violent and fascistic. The death of a protester struck by a police vehicle shows the danger of both car culture and police militarization. Further protests on these two topics are necessary, and I stand in solidarity with any protesters speaking out against police brutality and vehicle deadliness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2025_Indonesian_protests

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard @…
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-…

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-spraying and tackling protesters.

Apropos the developing confrontation in Chicago...
Anybody remember the film "Medium Cool". Below is a link to the 1968 police riot scenes (give it time - the events build somewhat slowly.)
These scenes were shot live as the police riot developed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh7wIGAcKxM

It amuses me when protesters yell "who do you protect? who do you serve?" at police. The answer is "capital". The answer has ALWAYS been "capital." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfj…

Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social)
This is our nation's capital. This is what is going on in DC right now. Trump's armed masked thugs are everywhere.

Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., may have helped Republican congressman
Cory Lee Mills
get off scot-free after he allegedly assaulted a woman. 
In February, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department arrived at Mills’s luxury penthouse on the Wharf in response to a call about a domestic disturbance.
There they found Mills’s “significant other” of a year, 27, “physically shaking and scared,” according to a police report.
Mills and his wife, Rana Al Saadi,…

D.C. Police Stops Investigating GOP Congressman as Trump Takes Over
The Metropolitan Police Department has closed its investigation into a Republican congressman accused of assault.

I sometimes find myself involuntarily laughing when I see a police vehicle pass by, a reflex born from recognizing the role of the state’s coercive apparatus in maintaining capitalist and authoritarian social order.
#ACAB #Capitalism

Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM | Local News | santafenewmexican.com https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/for…

Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM
Lily Alexander, now a reporter for The New Mexican, settled a lawsuit with UNM for $195,000 over its refusal to hand over police weapons records.

A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

The Tech Jester Who Pranks San Francisco
Riley Walz, 23, has gained fame for his online antics. His latest stunt has upset city officials.

What else could slogans like “Globalise the #Intifada” possibly mean? #Manchester
It is nothing but heartbreaking to see that Europe has not sufficiently learnt from the darkest of times last century to become safe for Jews. This act of unsurpassable hatred, cynically committed on the ho…

Just finished "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas (I haven't yet read "The Hate U Give" but that's now high on my list of things to find). It's excellent, and in particular, an excellent treatise on positive masculinity in fiction form. It's not a super easy book to read emotionally, but is excellently written and deeply immersive. I don't have the perspective to know how it might land among teens like those it portrays, but I have a feeling it's true enough to life, and it held a lot of great wisdom for me.
CW for the book include murder, hard drugs, and parental abandonment.
I caught myself in a racist/classist habit of thought while reading that others night appreciate hearing about: early on I was mentally comparing it to "All my Rage" by Sabaa Tahir and wondering if/when we'd see the human cost of the drug dealing to the junkies, thinking that it would weaken the book not to include that angle. Why is that racist/classist? Because I'm always expecting books with hard drug dealers in them to show the ugly side of their business since it's been drilled into me that they're evil for the harm they cause, yet I never expect the same of characters who are bankers, financial analysts, health insurance claims adjudicators, police officers, etc. (Okay, maybe I do now look for that in police narratives). The point is, our society includes many people who as part of their jobs directly immiserate others, so why and I only concerned about that misery being brought up when it's drug dealers?
#AmReading

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mk.gee:
🎵 Alesis
#NowPlaying #Mkgee
https://djlukinhas.bandcamp.com/track/mk-gee-alesis-dj-lukinhas-the-dream-police-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4u7vj352S98d9iA7ac1EVG

This photo has been on my lock screen this morning and the spatial scene that the iPhone creates makes it delightful.

Some cities are saying they won't indemnify officers in cases of wrongdoing. What does that mean for the victims of police misconduct?
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/01/police-accountability-liability-indemnify-civil-se…

How Some U.S. Cities Want to Avoid Paying for Police Misconduct
Denver, Minneapolis and other cities want to avoid paying large sums owed to victims of some types of misconduct. But will the officers pay up?

"He [potus] spoke of a necessary confrontation with an “enemy from within” and proposed using our own cities as “training grounds” for troops. This rhetoric dangerously blurs the line between soldier and police officer, a distinction that has been a cornerstone of American liberty for over two centuries and is enshrined in federal law. It is a radical departure that treats dissent as insurgency and American communities as battlefields."

"An Enemy From Within": Trump's Plan to Turn the Military on American Citizens
Donald Trump called American cities "training grounds" for our troops. We need to take that threat seriously.

Trump's FBI appointee Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
https://apnews.com/article/kash-patel-guns-new-zealand-fbi-d5747377f957d61645d47324bfaa1114

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed. The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols were presented during Patel's visit in July to open the FBI’s first standalone field office in New Zealand. The country's law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press about the gifts and why they were illegal to possess Tuesday. New Zealand law treats ino…

Statistical Crime Linkage: Evaluating approaches within the Covenant for Using AI in Policing
Nathan A. Judd, Amy V. Tansell, Benjamin Costello, Liam Leonard, Jessica Woodhams, Rowland G. Seymour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03730

Statistical Crime Linkage: Evaluating approaches within the Covenant for Using AI in Policing
Linking crimes by modus operandi has long been employed as an effective tool for crime investigation. The standard statistical method that underpins statistical crime linkage has been logistic regression. The simplicity and interpretability of this approach has been seen as an advantage for law enforcement agencies using statistical crime linkage. In 2023, the National Police Chiefs' Council published the Covenant for Using Artificial Intelligence in Policing designed to guide the development o…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in richmond. a pretty fun evening with an obnoxious cop scene (& perhaps even police riot) & bad gatecrashing that makes it all the way to the AP news wire. fall ’85, show #7.
soundboard: h…

Former Raiders acquisition Antonio Brown arrested on attempted murder charge https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/former-raiders-acquisition-antonio-brown-arrested-on-attempted-murder-charge-35…

Munich airport again halts operations due to drones; Police investigating approaching drones at Prague airport: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/munich-airport-again-halts-operations.html

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock via @…

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company
Lawmakers say AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

Police are investigating after the home of Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, roared in flames on Edisto Beach.
On Sept 3 Judge Diane Goodstein had put a hold on DOJ's request to deliver South Carolina voter lists to the federal government.
Goodstein's four-bedroom, four bath home went up in smoke at around 11.30am on Saturday, Oct 4
Her family, including her ex-senator husband Arnold Goodstein, was rushed to hospital.
South Carolina Chief Justice John K…

Top judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground as her ex-senator husband is rushed to hospital
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home became engulfed in flames, causing three to be rushed to hospital. Police have launched an investigation.

Panorama: misogyny and racism in the metropolitan police.
I'm waiting for the panorama report that highlights excessive bias for promoting Nick Griffin/BNP, Nigel Farage/UKIP, Reform; Boris Johnson/Tory and suppressing the comments of anyone to the left of Labour.

»Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia:
Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers.«
Telegram is absolutely insecure, not only because it is unencrypted or the drug market that goes through it, but because Russia knows exactly how to exploit young people like the mafia.
🤨

Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
Reports said two boys arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of working on behalf of pro-Russian hackers outside prominent buildings in The Hague.

#FirstAmendment and #CopWatch advocates have condemned #Oakland #Police efforts to begin hiding their

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

Flock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF's Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer | KPFA
Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

The "Telecommunications Charter" being signed by UK telecoms providers today includes traceability data sharing between networks and the police, and the blocking of internet resources identified by NCSC.
https://www.gov…

Fraud Sector Charter: telecommunications (accessible version)

Robotaxis are so safe that California police haven't written them a single ticket. https://apnews.com/article/waymo-no-driver-traffic-ticket-0a0dffb19bf38c5ee85681a6f83591ff

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow l…

According to a video posted on Telegram, Russian Interior Ministry officials arrested the creators of the Medusa malware
https://www.redhotcyber.com/en/post/russian-interior-ministry-officials-arrested-the-creators-of-the-me…

Russian Interior Ministry officials arrested the creators of the Medusa malware
Russian police arrest three young developers of the Medusa malware, used to steal data and breach security systems.

🪧 The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
#indonesia

The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.

General and current reminder:
if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area,
reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected
https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3lwzd7mve7k2e

unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)
General and current reminder: if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area, reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected

The Reality of Police Accountability: Who Pays?
When police are sued, who should pay—the officer or the taxpayers? Exploring accountability, fairness, and the complex costs of civil rights violations.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/the-reality-of-polic…

A profile of Flock Safety, which operates 80K AI surveillance cameras across the US and hit a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, as it expands into US-made drones (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump (Francesca D'Annunzio/The Texas Observer)
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p144#a251104p144

Police investigating after unidentified drone spotted over Norwegian airport: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/police-investigating-after-unidentified-drone.html

Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Police:
🎵 So Lonely
#ThePolice
https://djblackwhite.bandcamp.com/album/the-police-so-lonely-3-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wnsBaxrmkthIFAm6vqCuX

Remember how the maga-klan screamed when they heard "Defund The Police"?
Now that the maga-in-chief has decided to secretly defund everything from national parks to embassy security the klan-of-orange is silent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/upshot/

In Budget Logs It Tried to Hide, White House Wrests More Control Over Spending
Deep within obscure footnotes, the Trump administration is claiming more of Congress’s constitutional power of the purse by threatening to block funding.

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

"These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you?"
These days you can't even openly advocate for the murder of vulnerable groups without the police getting involved.
https://www.theguard…

An interview with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the company in April, on why he "backs the blue", how Ring is fighting crime, Amazon, and more (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/ring-founder-ai-amazon-doorbell-police.html

Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.

Arkansas man, arrested over perfume bottle police mistook for 'opium', seeks to restore visa (Coral Murphy Marcos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/arkansas-arrest-ysl-opium-perfume-immigration-visa
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p61#a251004p61

Film the Police DC: If you see something, say something.
#policestate

Film the Police DC: If you see something, say something
From Seven:Thirty 730DC newsletter, September 3, 2025: > If you see something, say something: Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams la...

An Arkansas man was detained for a month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice)
after authorities mistook his bottle of perfume for opium❗️
Kapil Raghu, an Indian national married to an American woman and working towards American citizenship,
was detained on 3 May after police officers in Benton, a suburb of Little Rock, pulled him over for having a non-moving traffic violation, according to his attorney, Mike Laux.
⚠️ During the traffic stop, police found a s…

"Americans are concerned about crime, but don’t broadly support President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to police U.S. cities according to a new…poll."
"Blackmore, 70, is a retiree…says the Guard deployments feel like an occupation."
"'Are we really going there?' he asks. 'It’s not America to me, to see that — a national force policing everyday lives of Americans on our streets and highways.'"

NPR-Ipsos poll: Americans don’t broadly support Trump’s National Guard deployments
Americans are concerned about crime, but don«t broadly support President Trump»s deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities, according to a new NPR-IPSOS poll.

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

I wonder how much of this is going on unreported - it's like taking candy from a baby.
The small town of Gloversville, NY, was hit by a ransomware attack and paid a ransom of $150,000, negotiated down from $300,000.
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/gloversville-hit-b…

Gloversville hit by ransomware attack
The city of Gloversville’s computer system was hit by a ransomware attack, which compromised the personal information of employees past and present. The attack was discovered by the finance commissioner back in March, the city announced on Saturday. There was a ransomware note on the server. Gloversville reported the attack to the FBI. State Police and the Department of Homeland Security’s Incident Response Team.

I'm calling on the FA to suspend the Arsenal match tomorrow in order for the police to have more resources available.

Unidentified drone spotted over Norwegian gas field, police investigating: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/unidentified-drone-spotted-over-norwegian.html

Clearly we need the police or ice to be at the doors of schools to summarily execute by gunshot the kids as they arrive to school the first day of the school year. This denies school shooters targets and satiates the police for at least five minutes. It is win-win.
Additionally, think of what we’ll save in school expenses for every subsequent year of school. This really is a no brainer. No common sense gun control laws needed.
/s

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

For too long, "excited delirium" has been a tool in the back pockets of police, medical examiners, and coroners used to cover up killings in police custody,
— leaving families without answers
or justice.
Maryland’s audit is a good start at righting this wrong, but a national reckoning is needed.
That’s because this is not just a Maryland problem.
Excited delirium was cited by police and other officials in the widely known police-perpetrated killings of…

“Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality.
For decades, police, medical examiners, and coroners have used the term used to cover up killings in police custody.

So the DC National Guard are an f-ing laughing stock of derelict traitorous fops. They couldn’t secure a lemonade stand and yet took and take the illegal order to deploy _against_ the American People.
11 f-ing shootings on the National Guard’s watch because the f-ing National Guard are not police and never should take a deployment to pretend to be.
You dishonorable scum. You will never live down the shame. Wastes of space.

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

Balaji revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city
where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in
gray t-shirts.
“And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”
“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,”
said Balaji Srinivasan.
“What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets.
That means …

The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not OK.

The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just over 24 hours.
In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to the police.

Live Updates: Motive Sought in Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 17
Of the 17 injured, 14 were children and three were adults in their 80s. Officials were looking at the social media content of the suspect, who was also dead.

The Air Force will offer military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt,
the Trump supporter and Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by police during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,
according to a statement from military officials issued Thursday.

The Air Force confirmed the decision, which it said came “after reviewing the circumstances of SrA Babbitt’s death,” in a statement to The Washington Post.

Air Force offers military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt
Babbitt, a 35-year-old California native, was the only Capitol rioter killed by police. She served on active duty as a security forces senior airman from 2004 to 2008, then served in both the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.

The Chicago police chief says that 75% his force is dedicated to crowd control, and that his officers were gassed by ICE while investigating a car running into a pedestrian
https://www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-in-chicago

ICE in Chicago
Plus Tom Homan's promise about Tom Homan

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

A jury has awarded at least $2.2m to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.
In the verdict last week, the jury found LA county liable for the injuries sustained by the man,
Cellin Gluck, and determined that he suffered $3.5m in damages.
They also awarded his daughter, who was there with him that day, an additional $300,000 for emotional distress

Judge Charles Breyer rules that the Trump administration brazenly violated the Posse Comitatus Act
when it deployed soldiers to enforce domestic laws in LA.
Breyer says Trump may not create "a national police force with the president as its chief."
https://

It is notable that the state and local police are all friendly witnesses for the plaintiffs in these cases
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3m4dzxfbwak2q

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.