As a former NZ Police sergeant, I know firsthand how police fatalities shape one’s behaviour. The recent shooting of two officers in Auckland cuts to the heart of NZ’s trust-based policing policies.
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Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
To use body cameras effectively, police need to be guided by law, not policy.
Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.
The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
The call to defund the police forces us to reconsider our priorities: more police and prisons or investments in social housing, mental health services, domestic violence and family support programs?
There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
African Americans have long taken to the streets to protest against racial injustice. While some progress has been made, police violence remains an ever-present reality.
The policing of lockdown places the entire population at the centre of a huge public order operation. The public they once protected from threats has itself become the threat.
The recent tragic deaths of four Victorian police officers have highlighted the dangers to those whose job it is to protect the community.
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Current restrictions remind us of the value of access to public space and one another. Yet even before COVID-19 some people were excluded and targeted, so a return to the status quo isn’t good enough.
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
Decriminalizing medical and recreational marijuana may exacerbate racial inequality within the criminal justice system, among other things.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
History shows us that when police forces apply the rules unevenly, some groups are hit harder than others.
Coronavirus calls on police to ensure people are obeying the new rules, and to continue their essential function of keeping the peace.
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