All cops are bad

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38003300

Where does this site get data from? In San Francisco, the SFMTA is the government authority tasked with giving out parking tickets. On average, they issue 1 parking ticket every 24 seconds. They employ about 300 officers who drive these tiny single-seat vehicles around, looking for violations:

I thought it would be interesting to visualize parking ticket data. I discovered that the city website people use to pay their tickets also includes a full copy of the citation. But you need to know the citation ID number, which presumably you only know if you have the ticket in your hand. I don't have a car, but my roommate does and he got a ticket recently.

This is gold! I can see everything: the make, color, location, the reason for the ticket, license plate, and even the initials of the officer who wrote the ticket. I would really love to be able to see EVERY ticket. But I don't know the IDs of every ticket. BUT WAIT. These numbers look like they go sort of in order. Current IDs are somewhere around 992,000,000. And tickets issued a couple months ago were around 988,000,000.

I was looking at ticket 984,946,605. When I type in 1 higher, 984,946,606, no ticket is found. That makes sense, there definitely aren't close to a billion tickets issued. Well, how are these IDs generated? There must be some logic to it.

After digging for a while, I'm pretty sure I know how. It seems each possible ticket number follows a pattern: add 11, except add 4 if the last digit is 6. So no ticket can end in 7, 8, or 9. So the ticket after 984,946,606 is actually 984,946,610, and after that is 984,946,621. Only God knows why, but I assume this is a remnant of an old system.

I also discovered the devices that parking cops use probably claim IDs in batches of 100. So if an officer just wrote a ticket, I know with certainty the ID after that one will be the next ticket the same officer writes. AND, immediately after a ticket is written, it becomes available to be viewed on the city's website.

With all of this knowledge, I wrote a scraper that works extremely efficiently and stores parking tickets almost immediately after they are written. Because there are about 300 parking cops, there are about 300 incomplete batches of 100 tickets. All I have to do is check the first ticket in each batch I don't have in my database. This approach means I only have to make a request to the city's website every few seconds. Great!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52317268

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34300007

Hmmm. Give anyone any ideas . . . ? 🤔

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32547125

The NYPD is skulking through the L train demanding IDs from Black and Latino men, again with zero justified cause or explanation as to why.

Source

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32235297

from the parting-shot-from-the-Civil-Rights-Division dept

from the when-not-even-a-wrist-slap-is-considered-acceptable dept

from the drug-warriors-will-need-to-be-a-little-less-obvious-from-now-on dept

from the so-anyway-I-started-blasting dept

from the don't-put-cops-in-schools dept

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15788619

George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...

George Floyd Murdered (2020)

Mon May 25, 2020

Image: George Floyd with his six-year old, Gianna [blackpast.org]

On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around the world; by July, more than 14,000 were arrested in the U.S. alone.

Floyd, a 46-year old black man, had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill. The cop, 44-year old white man Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds while he was handcuffed and lying face-down in a street. Floyd was dead before Chauvin's knee left his neck.

The following day, after videos made by witnesses and security cameras became public, all four officers involed were fired. Floyd's state murder became the catalyst for worldwide Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, which took place on every continent except Antartica.

The scope of civil unrest within the U.S. was nearly unprecedented. Author Malik Simba writes: "the protests have involved more than 26 million Americans in 2,000 cities and towns in every state in the U.S., making [them] the most widespread protests around one issue in the history of the nation. By the end of June alone, one month into the protests, 14,000 people had been arrested."

Initially, the local District Attorney's Office only harged Chauvin with third-degree manslaughter, but this charge was later increased to second degree murder, following mass protests. On April 20th, 2021, Chauvin was convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.

Floyd's murder was witnessed by several people, including children. On the incident, seventeen year old Danella Frazier stated "When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad, I look at my brother, I look at my cousin and my uncle." Her nine year old cousin, also an eyewitness, testified in court: "I was sad and kind of mad and it felt like [Chauvin's knee] was stopping him from breathing and it was hurting him."

• Date: 2020-05-25
• Learn More: www.blackpast.org, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Protests.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2280820

Please subscribe. Trying to help 'em out.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1476769

If you're an abolitionist, it's a good article to read.

We have to have a peace movement again, I feel.

Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

Hilton = cop, Hinton = victim

the deputy yanked Hinton out of his car by his legs and hit him multiple times while ripping his shirt and knocking out his false teeth. The violent arrest left Hinton with eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, severe concussion, shoulder injury and a disfigured lip, according to attorneys he hired

He was so beat up that jailers refused to book him and instead sent him to the hospital, Hinton’s attorneys said.

Police recommended charges against Hinton for resisting arrest and obstructing a law enforcement officer. When Note brought video of Hinton’s encounter to the attention of prosecutors, they promptly dropped the case.

Eventually, Hinton is handcuffed as other deputies arrive at the scene. He can be seen bleeding with a ripped shirt sitting on the ground handcuffed while at least a handful of deputies mill about.

Hilton turned off the audio of his body camera for a few minutes while talking with other deputies, who also turned off the audio of their body cameras.

Spokane County Deputies are required to have their body cameras activated, including with audio, when in contact with civilians.

Medics were called to the scene but cleared Hinton to be booked into the Spokane County Jail, according to Note. However, jail staff refused to book Hinton and he was instead taken to an area hospital, Note said.

Hinton stayed three nights in the hospital, where his upper lip had to be stitched. Three of his ribs had separated from his sternum and his concussion was severe, Note said.

"Fearing" = a local judge who's had problems with this same cop in the past.

“Deputy Clay Hilton’s conduct since the issuance of the decision in State v. Vaile suggests that he works as a law enforcement officer not to serve others and benefit the Spokane community, but to intimidate and dominate,” Fearing wrote. “I hold no ill will toward Deputy Hilton, but have concern about his anger, inability to reflect on his behavior, and insistence on retaliation. I lack confidence in his credibility.”

“When that number of officers show up and show that little interest in someone who’s been beaten nearly to the point where they have died and have had to be hospitalized for multiple days, that’s concerning to me,” Maurer said. “And that’s at least indicative that there may be a cultural problem within that department.”

"may be" ???

If only hell were real just so this piece of shit could be burning there right now. Shame he killed three others instead of just himself. Fucking pig.

Some legal education in case cops want to search your car for no reason