Has policing changed since Eric Garner was killed? Here's what a decade of data shows.

FlyingSquid , 4 hours ago

A decade after Garner and mayor is a cop. Nothing has improved. And it says a lot that nothing has improved while the amount of evidence has shot up.

mozz , 1 hour ago

I wish it was easier to see what is going on from the data they show 😕

NYPD is in my opinion on one of the worst tiers of police agencies in the country, and so it wouldn’t surprise me if they are still very bad. But it’s hard to tell one way or another from this article.

It would be nice to see e.g. a breakdown of all fatal interactions with police, and all interactions that led to a use-of-force complaint, what the categories were in terms of:

• What % they refused to give body cam footage
• What % our use of force expert said it was ok
• What % our expert said it was debatable
• What % our expert said the cops were very clearly abusive

Just reporting numbers like, how many complaints were there, or how many people did the police shoot whether or not it was needed, isn’t real enlightening

ryathal , 18 minutes ago

We can’t even get mandatory reporting of the numbers of people they kill and you expect details to be available? There is no interest in actually reforming police behavior.

verdantbanana , 3 hours ago

no

people blindly voted for Biden and are gearing up to do so again even after his failed promise of police reform while picking a prosecutor for a vice

plus since Eric Garner was killed the list of what you can be pulled over for has grown such as abortion traffickers

and with terry stops being legitimized by judges in courtrooms everyone will be a target before too long

slowly becoming the United Police States Under Christ

mozz , 2 hours ago

What the fuck

I came in here to talk about police brutality and the NYPD; I did not expect to see Biden’s name come into it when the NYPD is borderline brownshirts and hates the fuck out of Biden and doesn’t seem inclined to accept instructions about how much brutality to do from anybody much less a stinkin’ Democrat

But sure. Biden’s action on law enforcement has mostly been to make small but sensible reforms to federal law enforcement (one, two).

If you want more police reform, a good place to start would be supporting efforts in congress to do the same in other police jurisdictions, as opposed to (as is tradition) blaming the whole thing on Biden and Biden only and doing everything possible to swing the election to his opponent who is 18 times worse on the issue.