Help Wanted (Por Favor Ayúdenos) Let's Make a Law: Michael Brown Federal...
INTRODUCTION Events in Ferguson and elsewhere require us to protect our citizens from out-of-control police departments. That's where you come in. Please help us craft a new law to send to members...
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Let's Do Some Legislatin': The Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of 2015...
Why do we need a law to police the police, you may ask. Consider this: As reported by USA Today, police are involved in 400 killings per year.Is this what we want? ("Ferguson, Missouri," by Eric...
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If ALEC can make laws, so can Daily Kos! The Michael Brown Over-Policed...
Please help hone our new statute into a keen razor to scrape away scoundrels and malevolent policies and practices from our police departments. Our families need this law. Our grandchildren need this...
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If ALEC can make laws, so can Daily Kos! For These We TAKE ACTION (Draft 4)
The Reverend Dr. William Barber challenged us to use our anger to change the world. We are angry, and therefore we are working to change the racist culture of policing in this country. Since Michael...
View Article"You didn't need to shoot me, sir!" ... How to Police the Police (Draft 5)
Levar Jones: "What did I do?" ..."What did I do, sir?" ..."Why did you – why did you shoot me?" ..."I’m sorry." ..."Why did you pull me over? I was just pulled into the gas station." ..."Sir, I didn’t...
View Article*Take Action!* The Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act (Draft 6)
We on this site have ranted, raved, and expressed our outrage as one incident after another of police brutality has come to light. We have sent diary after diary detailing police brutality to the top...
View ArticleLaw! Cameras! Action! We promote the Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of...
Since last Friday, thug-police have filled our pages with brutality and over-policing: A NYPD officer punched a teenager for smoking as he walked home. Another officer smashed a car's passenger window...
View ArticleMichael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of 2015 (Federal)
THE MICHAEL BROWN OVER-POLICED RIGHTS ACT OF 2015Section 1 (a) UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. All policing jurisdictions shall report the following information every twelve months to the...
View ArticleMichael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of 2015 (State)
THE MICHAEL BROWN OVER-POLICED RIGHTS ACT OF 2015Section 1 (a) UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. All policing jurisdictions shall report the following information every twelve months to the...
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Not Talk, Walk. To Stop Bad Police, Fix the Law, Police the D**n Police: Good...
70 days ago, a young unarmed American boy was gunned down on a hot August street in Ferguson, Missouri. People saw, people heard, and witnesses spoke up; but the killer is still...
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Justice, Meet Politics. Police the D**n Police! (Week 9)
Listeners this week heard a lot of buzz. Buzzers buzzed about a big reveal about the killing of the young unarmed American in Ferguson. Buzzing broke about what the leaked autopsy report would show....
View ArticleHow Do We Go Forward? Why Should We? Police Thugs: Serve Them Justice. (Week 11)
After the shellacking we took this week, some people are ready to give up. "Not another mountain to climb," weary warriors groan.One reason we cannot stop fighting now is demonstrated in Vest or Vote,...
View ArticleWhinin' and Groanin'? Enough! Use the Law to Fight Back. MBOPRA (Week 12)
As you may know, our primary goal in starting this series was to find a way to fight back against police brutality; to crowdsource a law that would police the police. We did that. And some funny,...
View ArticleWaiting for the Missouri Grand Jury ... Governor Nixon, We Have a FOIA...
... but we need a Missouri resident to file the request. We also need residents in 16 other states to step up. Residents in 3 states have already stepped up! (See chart below.)We have come to...
View ArticleHow to open a can of WHOOPS! on 19 Republican governors - STDDs - Action Week 14
Wherein we discuss the who, what, where, how, and why of sending a FOIA demand to your governor to save lives in your state. We are organizing a lawful method to advance the dreams of MLK. If you...
View ArticleTakin' it to the Streets (and Tweets). FOIA Update - STDDs - Week 15
The events detailed in I cried when I got home became a turning point in my life. I became more active here and elsewhere and more receptive to listening to others' pain. But someone had to die to spur...
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Triumph Amid Heartache: Support the Dream Defenders' Year in Review!
According to the website Killed by Police, law enforcement officers have sent over a thousand people to early graves so far this year. The overwhelming majority of those killed were young black men. As...
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Kansas State Senator Proposes Law to Investigate Use of Force by Police...
Senator Oletha Faust Goudeau proposed changes in the way that Kansas handles issues of police-related shootings. Senator Goudeau hopes that her legislation, KS-SB-216, provides a framework that...
View ArticleRetrieving Data From States Evaluating Criminal Processing in Kansas/Missouri
A few days ago I was asked to write a diary on the process of requesting and reviewing data for Kansas and Missouri in light of the DailyKos effort for the MBOPRA. In an effort to understand a lot of...
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She will be buried today. Rest in Peace, Sandra
Rest in Peace, dear Sandra.Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday at the suburban Chicago church that Sandra Bland attended for many of her 28 years, turning out in such numbers that even the overflow...
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