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Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter (backchannel.com)
mirandakatz writes: When the NYPD rolled out its Twitter presence a couple years back, it didn't go so smoothly: the @NYPDNews account tweeted a request: 'Do you have a photo with a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD,' and by midnight the same day, more than 70,000 people had responded decrying police brutality. At Backchannel, Susan Crawford looks at the department's attempt to use Twitter to rebuild community trust, noting that while the NYPD has a long ways to go, any opening up of communication is an improvement on the traditionally tight-lipped culture.
They're currently reaching about 10% of the city's population, tweeting pictures of "wanted" suspects and sharing information on recent criminal activity, as the police commissioner describes shifting their mindset from "warrior" to guardian.
They're currently reaching about 10% of the city's population, tweeting pictures of "wanted" suspects and sharing information on recent criminal activity, as the police commissioner describes shifting their mindset from "warrior" to guardian.
Stop breaking the laws you are supposed to uphold, you fucks.
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It would be easier to trust them if they'd just wear the damn body cameras.
And your enemies closer.
Here's another one:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Become friends with a cop, expect to be spied upon.
That is more contacts than the NYPD has had with the public in 5 years or more. Probably 75% of those responses came from jackasses in that had never been to NY or ever even had contact with the NYPD. Not to try and excuse the BAD cops but people who decry the viciousness of police based solely on some hugely biased news media coverage, are like professional protestors shipped in from wherever to boost numbers and cause trouble in order to garner additional media attention.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Want to build community trust? Stop treating the community like criminals and start respecting their constitutional rights.
You are apart of the problem. Ignore all the evidence in your face. Not all black people are criminals.
How come unarmed white people aren't getting killed as much as unarmed black men? Riddle me that you joker.
Um, out of all the people getting killed by police, 13% are black, and 63% are white. As for the rest, they don't fit into those two categories.
So murder is the only way deal with people?
I always wounder when a person jumps to the opposite extreme in a conversation is this person to stupid for words. it is a fucking pathetic human trait to not be able to see a middle ground or you are a cop who loves shooting people.
You overlooked UNARMED
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Want to earn trust, house the homeless, feed the hungry ect. The dividends would be enormous.
The abusive one in a relationship often blames the other for the lack of trust. The NYPD is assuming twitter will fix the problem. As you point out, what will really fix the problem is a tighter ROE. It's strange, since with only a couple of situations (normal/traffic stop/domestic disturbance/responding to armed incident) you could class all possibilities and have prewritten, tested and adhered to ROEs
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There are many people who have been let down by government so severely that they have no trust or sense of community with anyone felt to represent government. lifting up the most deprived citizens would go a long way towards government being accepted by the people. We now know that many innocent people have been and are now locked in jails and prisons. Other people are beaten down or gunned down for little or no reason. Making friends after such things occur is not likely to ever occur. I have seen cops who abused and baited people trying to get them to commit an incident in which they could make an arrest. I am aware that in some cases the cops feel that they will be called back to the scene again and make an arrest according to that prophecy. But showing hate and rudeness to a person rarely will accomplish anything but creating a criminal.
The problem isn't the officers who break the law, but the police commanders that defend them. The majority of people would not care about police breaking the law if there were direct and legal consequences for the officers on a fairly consistent basis. There is a minority that would hate the police even if cops who break the law are consistently held legally accountable just because they believe in collective judgment and demand perfection from other groups that their own could not provide.
Groups like BLM are part of the problem on police reform. When Castro died, BLM mourned him because he gave refuge to known cop killers. What is even worse, Castro was precisely the sort of leader domestically that is the stuff of BLM nightmares in terms of police brutality. Think stop and frisk over guns and drugs is bad? How about stop and frisk over having extra cans of beans? That literally happens in Cuba all the dang time. The fact that BLM has not be totally marginalized and ridiculed into obscurity by opponents of police brutality because many of them have blinders that make them sympathetic is part of why the movement isn't getting much traction.