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Baltimore, MD
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Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Imagine if we had a mayor at all. Such a person might at least have something to say - and maybe even might lift a finger! - about the fact that this is the same publicly funded agency that is now shielding their scanner transmissions from that public.
TIMELINE of scanner transmissions that shows - hours before 30 were shot, 2 fatally - @BaltimorePolice were getting calls for help and knew Brooklyn Day was out of control, but stayed back. bit.ly/3O6dYjm "Foxtrot is overhead. We're not going in the crowd."
ALT Police cordon off Brooklyn Homes last Sunday morning after a mass shooting left 28 people injured and two dead. (@BaltimorePolice)
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Whatever your site of struggle—abortion access, housing, education justice—the fact is that police are the ones standing in the way of our collective safety and well-being, not only through their violence and criminalizing people but also by looting our resources. #DefundPolice
Oh. My. God.
Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show news.yahoo.com/sacramento-sh…
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Decades from now, children playing in the fields and forests of post-war Ukraine will have their legs and arms blown off because of this decision.
The Biden administration plans to send cluster munitions, which strew small bomblets over a wide area, to Ukraine to strengthen its hand in a high-stakes offensive against Russian forces on.wsj.com/3rgSPtH
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
What is local control of BPD even for, if not to fix this?
Starting today, @BaltimorePolice have encrypted and delayed police scanner traffic access for the public. We can only hear the dispatcher passing messages along, and not anything said by officers in response, all on 15-min delay.
It’s pretty bad.
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Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
This is the state of government transparency in Baltimore. The city’s law department withdrew a public records request on my behalf without asking me based on an assumption that I no longer wanted them. I’ve been a journalist for a decade and can safely say this is a new one.
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Baltimore residents: Half our budget goes to Police & yet that $ doesn’t keep us safe so maybe let’s spend some of it on other approaches
City leaders: Lol no
BPD fails to keep us safe
BPD: This is residents’ fault for daring to even talk about taking away some of our money
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
BPD could so easily do certain things better, early intervention at potentially disastrous events is actually one of the easiest.
It’s not ghost guns, it’s not staffing, it’s not intelligence.
It’s cops not caring, cops resisting doing basic work, until being forced to.
3/3
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
I heard Baltimore’s mayor at that press conference explaining why the curfew didn’t work in this case even though research exists that says curfews don’t work and people said this to him.
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
This story—by me, @expandyourfocus, Vida Fye, and @steadynappin with illustrations by @egallagher_art— shows the limits of saying "300 murders" and how it is often used in bad faith by police and elected officials.
therealnews.com/baltimore-po…
ALT In 1993, when Baltimore experienced 353 homicides—a record high number—the population was 724,671. The city’s murder rate that year was 48.7 murders per 100,000 people. In 2007, when O’Malley campaigned for governor on his success reducing murders via mass arrest, there were 282 murders. The population in 2007 was 606,006, making the murder rate 46.5 murders per 100,000 people. Comparing only the raw number of recorded homicides shows that there were 157 fewer murders in 2007 than in 1993. But accounting for population between those years reveals that the celebrated reduction in murders is a difference of only three people per 100,000. During this period, the population of Baltimore declined by 16% and murders dropped by 20%. Fewer people were killed in 2007 than 1993, but how much of that can actually be credited to policing is hard to determine. The city failed to protect nearly the same percentage of people from murder in 2007 as it did in the early ’90s.
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
For example, there have been recent claims by the mayor and (soon-to-be former) commissioner about "record gun seizures." Besides gun seizures not helping reduce violence It is not true. therealnews.com/baltimore-po…
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Along with history and insights from past city officials, the story is the start of providing Baltimoreans with 30+ years of police x crime data. We want there to be something to consult when officials make claims about violence reduction etc. therealnews.com/baltimore-po…
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
For @TheRealNews with support from Google News Initiative x Northwestern University's Data-Driven Reporting Project:
Part 1 in a series of stories looking at the past 30+ years of police strategy, failure, spending, and dysfunction
therealnews.com/baltimore-po…
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
There are SO many ways to get involved with the movement for prison abolition.
We've organized #AbolitionWeek articles into themes to help with further reading about topics that interest you:
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Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
"Until we have police-free communities, we will never have reproductive freedom for all, and abortion will never truly be safe and legal. If anyone tells you differently, they’re lying."
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Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
"To fix this we must start with the truth: Our nation loves policing more than it does ensuring the safety and care of pregnant people. Protecting abortion access means calling for the abolishment of the police and all laws that criminalize us for the outcomes of our pregnancies"
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
This right here 👇
If you want to learn more about the connections between abortion criminalization and the movements to defund and abolish the police, check out our collaborative brief: bit.ly/DecrimAbortion
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
I assume these kind of tweets are fulfilling some kind of community based consent decree obligation. Anyway, American policing grew out of slave catching.
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
This is the first federal court ruling on a categorical ban on gender-affirming care and follows judges in Florida, Alabama, and Indiana blocking enforcement of those bans while challenges against them proceed. Let's keep it going 💖💪
Open Justice Baltimore retweeted
Do you want to use public records laws in abolitionist organizing? Bring your requests and questions to our in-person legal workshop.
More details here: stoplapdspying.org/public-re…