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  • This — http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2012/08/02/they-burned-down-harlem-in-64/ – is unfortunately right on time
     
    Handcuffed black youth shot dead in police car in Arkansas – officers claim “suicide”:

    •  @nancy a heitzeg sigh…

  • MK

    Nancy, thank you so much for this.  This is lucid and such important information to share.  I am tweeting it and posting it on Facebook now.  Hope that you are having a good summer.  Peace and solidarity.

    • Thank you MK — Project NIA and the associated action research projects are really a model for moving forward
       
      Indebted — always — to you

  • Profoundly sad and maddening, Nancy.  We must keep up the fight and continue to cast a light on these issues.  We’ve got to be more actively involved in own communities before this jim crow B.S. will ever end.

  • rubyr

    In NYC this situation just gets worse and worse and no law enforcement officials are EVER 
    held accountable. This is the heartbreaking world we now live in…probably have always lived in but it feels like it is getting much worse. 
     
    Thank you for this very necessary, yet devastating, diary. 
     
    Hope all is well with you and yours. 
     
    I always read your diaries but usually too late for anyone to 
    see my comments so I don’t comment. Today, I lucked out. 
     
    Deepest heartfelt respect to you. 

    •  @rubyr Good to see you rubyr!

      • rubyr

         @Seeta Hey Seeta!!! Good to see you, too. Hope all is well and happiness. 

    •  @rubyr Rubyr!!
       
      thank you so muCH
       
       

  • KayWhitlock

    Thank you for telling the truth.  Where is the Right on issues of police accountability?  Nowhere to be seen.  Or behind the sheets.

    •  @KayWhitlock Waving! :)

  • The personal stories and the aggregate data remains disturbingly the same  – even though as it gets more difficult to collect.
     
    In doing this piece, i discovered that one of the major reporting projects — InJustice Everywhere — has now been taken over by the Cato Institute.. Sigh
     
    Much gratitude though  to those who carry on — especially Project NI which organizes Black and Blue and Cahin Reaction.. Increasingly it seems the less reliance on 911/police possible is one of the ways to go..

    • will be on and off today — headed to student presentations soon
       
      i will be back
       
      Thanks as always

    • KayWhitlock

      The Cato Institute?  Good grief. @nancy a heitzeg 

      • rubyr

         @KayWhitlock Hey Kay!!
        How are you, dear? Hope everything is great. 

      •  @KayWhitlock here is the link
         
        http://www.policemisconduct.net/
         
        plus this from Cop Block –  ugh!!
         
        http://www.copblock.org/tag/injustice-everywhere/
        “It’s good to know that some of Cato’s resources will be devoted to making transparent the double-standards claimed by those who wear badges. It means a slightly different audience will be exposed to the ideas we’ve proffered and it makes more realistic real systemic change. That is clearly the trend. My hope is that, with Lynch at the helm, NPMRP will include as an alternative to today’s law enforcement bound by Statist Quo “fixes” one open to the idea that law enforcement, like all other goods and services, can best be provided via consensual interactions.
        Cato’s increased involvement in this sphere of police accountability is an example of bottom-up solutions. The more tactics and messages being implemented the sooner the double-standards that create and allow for misconduct by those wearing badges will cease.”

    • rubyr

       @nancy a heitzeg Well, to hear that InJustice Everywhere has been taken over by the Cato Institute is a huge blow. MAN!!!

    •  @nancy a heitzeg Wow…did not know that.  Incredible.

      •  @Seetahey seeta and kay —
         
        yes nthe Cato Insitute is carizness
         
        will link later — running again in a minute — but apparently the site founder needed someone to take it over… and Cato offered.. The most disturbng aspect is that apparently many other Copwatch sites fail to see that this is a problem
         
        and oh — of course no new repiorts — just running the news flashes.. That is it