Article 5: I’M NOT OK
Police Sexual Misconduct has increasingly plagued communities around the world, but why are departments still so easily allowed to hide them from the public. [San Jose Police Department]
Article 4: Notes on a Story
ON MAY 25th, San Jose, California became the setting of the 15th US mass shooting in 2021 where nine men were killed in the Valley Transit headquarters located in northern District Victor, after the shooter, Sam Cassidy, set his home ablaze in the central southern policing district of Lincoln. Mass shootings are quickly becoming the…
One of these Things is Not Like the Other
There is no more of a direct way to start this piece except to say that violence against Asians needs to end. I’m learning to listen as the Asian community grows more outspoken of its silent plight. An increasing amount of random racist attacks against some of the most vulnerable elders in the community has…
Article 2: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Cop
Ten weeks ago, one of Breonna Taylor’s killers, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly of the Louisville Metro Police Department, sat across from Michael Strahan on Good Morning America. The fraught and feeble—yet morally bankrupt cop suffering from little more than privilege managed to tell a murder story full of inconsistencies, befoul George Floyd’s memory, and when prompted—issued…
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Cop (Part 2/4)
In June, New York Police Benevolent Association president, Mike O’Meara, stood before the press against a back drop of his fellow officers—and in his best rendition of the The Elephant Man’s ‘I am not an animal’ speech–querulously denounced the notion he and his colleagues should be seen as boogeymen to be feared. Footage began to…
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Cop (Part 3/4)
The REPUDIATION OF RACE: Modern day policing descended from the 1760’s initiation of the slave patrol—their fundamental function was to keep black slaves oppressed and in their place through apprehension, discipline and terrorization. To work on a slave patrol was considered a civic duty, much as policing is today. Slavery may have taken a bow…
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Cop (4/4)
Among the SOLUTIONS? If a national or local data base is implemented, this will just result in fewer sustained complaints being issued by internal affairs divisions—either out of fear for the reputation of the department or of the officer himself. The percentage of believed allegations against police officers are already disturbing low—2% of 887 allegations…
Article 1: Uncle Eddy
2020 will probably be the year of hibernation as we “shelter-in-place” in our respective corners. Some are finding the fortitude to count what they still have control over, while others are using this time to regroup. My need to regroup has involved appreciating the silver linings in the stories of skies clearing over parts of…
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