#use of force

[alwaysbewoke]

[osarquivosmagnus]

This is so fucking heartbreaking and also I wish there was a way people knew forever probably got dragged kicking and screaming and had those meds shoved down his throat. Like he already told pac he didn't agree to it at first and then obviously, after the first intake, he was already drugged enough to keep taking them. The animatic he showed last night probably shows he really was gonna blow up the whole island, which is why the feds had to intervene. He wasn't threatened or manipulated into this, they just took him against his will and made him take the pills/potion...

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CONSTABLE DISMISSED," Ottawa Citizen. October 15, 1913. Page 1. ---- Use of Revolver Not Justified by Circumstances. ---- Arthur Ainscough, the police constable who fired three shots at a man in front of Wah Lee's laundry, corner of St. Patrick street and King Edward avenue, about 2.30 last Monday morning, was today dismissed from force. His use of the weapon was reckless, since he says that the man had not entered the laundry. There was not sufficient provocation to warrant the use of a revolver. Ainscough came here three weeks ago from New Bedford, Mass., where he was employed for some time on the police force. He will leave for New Bedford today. He has lost his taste for police experience and intends to try some other line. The man at whom the constable fired got away and the police have not any good clue as to who he is.

[path-forbidden]

You can state a flawlessly correct opinion in a way where adherents receive eye-rolling contempt for other viewpoints, and opponents feel the universal human desire to differ from someone who hurts or dismisses you.

I suppose it's best at convincing the undecided to fall in with you, because they have the opportunity to dodge feeling stupid or humiliated in a way opponents don't. If your enemies are absolute enemies & the conflict is harsh, the downsides appear minor.

For me, for a long time, I held anyone I thought was stupid (most the world) as an absolute enemy. Of course, it's also that mocking people is fun, and the impulse snowballs pretty easily.

[gwydionmisha]

Federal only and an extremely minor reform.

[ablackwomansurvivingrape]

It is implausible that this many victims are making up rape allegations, experts say, raising crucial questions about how seriously police treat sexual assault claims — and how likely they are to be biased against women who report them. In fact, the national average for unfounded rapes among police departments nationwide is 7%. (While this data isn’t perfect, it offers the best available window into police practices nationwide. An explanation of BuzzFeed News’ analysis can be found here.)

To understand how and why police toss out rape cases, BuzzFeed News requested detailed case files for "unfounded" rape reports from more than a dozen police departments with high rates of these cases. Most declined, but Baltimore County provided a year’s worth of documents from 2014.

It amounted to a trove of 42 case files. And an analysis found disturbing patterns:

Police routinely did little to no detective work at all, labeling rape reports unfounded after cursory interviews with the victims.

Detectives who are trained to handle sex crimes often never even met or spoke with the alleged victim, but instead dismissed the allegation simply after reviewing a case report made by a beat cop.

The officers writing the reports often dismissed rape allegations because they believed the women did not fight back hard enough — or, as one police report put it, "did not resist to the best of her ability.” Even if a woman submits to sex against her will because she fears for her life, these reports indicate, her assailant hasn’t committed a crime and can walk away without so much as a police interrogation.

The Baltimore County Police Department defended its practices, saying that it is constrained by the narrow language of Maryland’s rape law.

Baltimore County is a sprawling and diverse area with a population of 830,000, larger than the city of the same name. But there’s far less violent crime in the county than the city of Baltimore, and the county police force has received far less media attention.

The city’s rape investigators came under scrutiny in 2010, when the Baltimore Sun found that city police were classifying rape allegations as unfounded more than any other American city of its size. In response, the city changed its policies and hired a new commander to oversee how rapes were investigated. Its unfounded rate dropped precipitously, to below the national average.

But just next door, Baltimore County’s rate remained high, the highest in the nation for a police department of its size.

Of the 42 unfounded rape reports obtained by BuzzFeed News, 13 of them were dismissed by the police for a straightforward reason — the people who made the allegation admitted lying, or there was strong evidence that contradicted them. A 14th unfounded rape report has no details at all.

But the remaining 28 rape reports open a unique window into police practices — and biases. One remarkable finding: In at least 15 cases, more than half, the police wrote that the victims didn’t fight back hard enough.

One woman told the police that her 250-pound assailant got on top of her after she rejected his advances. She covered her mouth and vagina with her hands, but he was able to pull her spandex shorts aside to have sex with her. She said she was afraid that the man would hurt her, but the police noted that “she could not specify how he would do that.” Ruled unfounded.

When another woman said her rapist put his hands around her neck, a detective said she wasn’t forced, and “she could breathe normally.” Ruled unfounded.

In yet another case, a woman reported that a man forced her to have sex several times. She said she told him no repeatedly, and he told her, “If you scream, I will kill you.” She said he dragged her around and raped her on a gravel road. The officer even noted that there were bruises consistent with her story. Yet this was still not enough for the police, who wrote that the victim did not try “to push, kick, or use any other force.” Ruled unfounded.

"Saying no is not enough to support a rape charge."

The Baltimore County Police Department defended its decision to drop these and all the other unfounded cases without any further investigation. The department looks at every rape report seriously, spokeswoman Elise Armacost told BuzzFeed News in an email. "We take every victim at her word," she wrote.

But “saying no is not enough to support a rape charge,” she said. Maryland’s rape law requires not only a lack of consent but also “force or the threat of force.”

Therefore, it was not enough for the suspect to threaten, “If you scream, I will kill you,” Armacost told BuzzFeed News in an email. The department was right to close that case, she said, because there was no evidence the attacker “really intended physical harm.”

In the case where the man put his hands around the woman’s neck, Armacost said, he took his hands away when she asked him to. “She did not physically resist,” Armacost added. “Absent such resistance, a case does not warrant additional investigation under Maryland law.”

But Maryland’s highest court has repeatedly come to a different conclusion. In one case, the victim’s only acts of resistance were to repeatedly say no and to push away the man’s hand when he fondled her. Asked why she didn't do anything more, the woman responded that she was terrified. She was sexually assaulted, the court ruled, stating that “force may exist without violence.”

Byron Warnken, a criminal law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, reviewed several Baltimore County case files for BuzzFeed News and said the police are misinterpreting the law. If a woman “honestly and reasonably believes that if she resists, she will be subjected to harm, there is no requirement to resist,” he said.

Many states, not just Maryland, have rape laws that require more than just a lack of consent. But "the way the law is written does not excuse investigators for not completing a thorough investigation," said Tom Tremblay, a retired police chief who consults with law enforcement nationwide on how to respond to sexual assault cases.

[xx-princess-kitty]

don’t ask me if we can fuck, hold me down and tell me toys don’t get a choice.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

my (very queer) friend is pregnant for the first time and she’s been on all the baby message boards (eg tiktok, facebook) and she found this tag that was like “ftm pregnancy” and she was like “oh cool! there’s whole tag for pregnant transmen!” and then was extremely confused as to why the tag was full of what appeared to be cisgender women. she was like “i mean i don’t wanna judge, maybe they are transmen but they don’t look how i expected them to, that’s okay, if they say they’re trans then they are” except she kept looking through the tag and literally NONE of them were transmen, ALL of them appeared to be ciswomen. she was VERY confused, seriously questioning what she knew about trans people (and not to be like “she has trans friends!” but literally her partner is trans, her sibling in law is trans, many of her friends are trans/nb, hell i think she’s a bit nonbinary herself, idk, we haven’t actually talked about that recently lol) and doubting reality in general.

and then she found out that, amongst a huge section of the internet to which she had never been exposed before, “ftm” stands for First Time Mom.

there’s no moral to this story i just thought it was funny

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[littleloserbetabitchkeith]

[amereid1960]

التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة

التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة   التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة الكاتب : عميري عبد الوهاب الملخص: تعالج هذه الورقة البحثية موضوع استخدام القوة في العلاقات الدولية بعد الحرب الباردة، وكيف خرج من نطاقه القانوني المحدد في ميثاق الأمم المتحدة. وتبين الورقة أن استخدام القوة العسكرية في إطار القانون الدولي عملية محددة المعنى وواضحة…

[alewaanewspaper1960]

التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة

التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة   التوسع في نظرية التفويض والحالات المستحدثة لتبرير استخدام القوة الكاتب : عميري عبد الوهاب الملخص: تعالج هذه الورقة البحثية موضوع استخدام القوة في العلاقات الدولية بعد الحرب الباردة، وكيف خرج من نطاقه القانوني المحدد في ميثاق الأمم المتحدة. وتبين الورقة أن استخدام القوة العسكرية في إطار القانون الدولي عملية محددة المعنى وواضحة…

[genderkoolaid]

btw the term "women's health" to discuss uterine care/menstruation isnt just transphobic, it also keeps up this aggravating idea that the uterus & menstruation are obscene and impolite and need to be kept hidden under flowery vague terms as to not offend any cis men. like trans people demanding the end of gendered language around this stuff aren't just helping trans people, its also just good to normalize calling tampons and pads "menstrual supplies" because thats what they fucking are!!! we should say the words uterus vagina menstruation and we should do it in public and in stores instead of talking about ~women's needs~ and ~feminine care~. trans liberation is fundamental to women's liberation and anti-patriarchal action in general. listening to trans men & people isn't bad for women its good for literally everyone

[nerdpoe]

Danny needs a few...odd things. A few dietary and emotional requirements unique to his physiology. Meat is one of them.

But like, raw meat. He doesn't have to eat it often, maybe twice a month, but it does need to be completely raw.

He also needs to eat non-sentient blob ghosts, which are very different from sentient ones. Same amount, maybe twice a month.

He's weak to hot temperatures, where most humans require some sort of positive contact he needs to fight, if he gets too much sunlight his dopamine levels drop, and oddly enough as he got older milk or products with a lot of milk started to affect him like alcohol affects humans.

Now that he's made it to college, hiding most of these things is easy enough.

He chose Gotham, because of minimal sunny days and naturally cold weather. He regularly goes for walks at night, to fill his need for fighting. He says he has a milk allergy, and avoids milk products.

The blobs and the raw meat are a little uh. Those are a little hard.

He's taken to ducking into a bathroom stall to just swallow the blobs whole. But the meat...

He decides to sear the outside and leave the inside entirely raw. Does this detract from the nutrients by cooking them off? Yes. Does it mean he needs to eat raw meat four times a month instead of twice? Yes. Does it mostly hide that he's doing this in front of humans? Kind of.

Until he got a vegan roommate.

Said roommate is far too sharp-eyed for his own good, and now the guy is being weird.

Or: Damian's roommate is a meta who clearly has dietary restrictions outside the norm. It's fine; Damian understands that like animals in the wild, people have different diets. But the cuts of meat Fenton is eating are...subpar. Damian isn't sure how to be...civil, or appear polite, or not be a "snob" if he suggests Fenton allow him to procure farm fresh cuts of steak from cows raised in an open pasture and were well taken care of.

[5ummit]

New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)

More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.

Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:

I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.

After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:

.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}

Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!

If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.

Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:

tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper

Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.

Some additional notes:

After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.

The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!

The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.

This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.

[mrs-serrano]

Police and the Use of Force

By Angela Serrano

The country’s law enforcement officers have found themselves under scrutiny as of late, due to the high-profile excessive use of force cases that have been highly publicized. The media has shown the worst of the worst-case scenarios, when it is far from that with most law enforcement officers.

Most law enforcement officials in the country that overlook police officers, want their officers to be prepared for anything, not to panic and to be in control. That comes with training and good leadership. Training from day one should be on a consistent schedule, meaning there should always be training available to every officer, regardless of their label. Whether patrol, Sergeant or captain, everyone should have training consistently.

There is a Use-of-force continuum that many law enforcement officers must follow. This continuum gives the standard for use of force, when to use any, and how much to use. They use policies that describe the use of force and when to escalate it for higher use of force scenarios. These policies show an increase in levels and what is appropriate use of force for scenarios of incidents.

An example of what the levels of force and the reason to use each level is as follows:

• The arrival of an officer; compliance with commands of an officer

o Just the arrival of a police officer gets everyone involved to stop and show respect for the law enforcement officer and is enough to diffuse any situation that may have been starting.

o The police officer is pleasant and nonthreatening, with no commanding statements used.

• Commands / Uses words to command the scene- use of force nonphysical

o Police officers state commands with calm voice, using nonthreatening language. “Such as Let me see your identification and registration." (National Institute of Justice, 2009)

o Police officer may find himself having to repeat commands and with that the increase in volume and less friendly approach is made. Only to gain compliance and to have control of the scene.

• “Empty-Hand Control “— Police officers uses their own body force to gain control quickly of the situation and suspect.

o “Soft technique.” (National Institute of Justice, 2009) Police officer may use holds, grabs, take downs, to secure the individual and to restrain him from hurting himself or others.

o “Hard technique.” (National Institute of Justice, 2009) Police officer may use physical force such as punches or kicks to restrain the individuals

• “Less-Lethal Methods “(National Institute of Justice, 2009) —Police officers use nonlethal techniques to gain control of situation and suspect.

o “Blunt impact” (National Institute of Justice, 2009). Police officers may feel the need to use a baton or nightstick, may also use a projectile, like a rubber bullet on a combative person. (National Institute of Justice, 2009)

o “Chemical.” Police officers may find they need the use of a chemical agent to help subdue a suspect, and will use the appropriate item, such as pepper spray, pepper bullets or other nonlethal manner of control. (National Institute of Justice, 2009)

o “Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs).” (National Institute of Justice, 2009) Police Officers may find they have the need of something more powerful to control the combative suspect and may use “CEDs” to get the suspect under control. They discharge elevated levels of electricity (Taser) (National Institute of Justice, 2009)

• The use of Lethal Force: Police officers find they need to pull their lethal weapon to gain control of the situation when the suspect is an immediate threat to a person or officer.

o Only use deadly force weapons such as their service weapon when it is needed to protect someone or themselves. (National Institute of Justice, 2009)

o

The Use of Force in a police department needs to have clear cut lines when to draw their weapons and when it is okay to use them. It cannot be when drawing their weapons is their first instinct when the suspect is not threatening them or anyone for that matter. There needs to be better techniques to deescalate situations down and not causing more stress by automatically pulling their side arm. (Oliver, 2022)

With these 5 levels of use of force, we should be able to create a standard practice, where people do not have to be afraid of being pulled over for fear of losing their life. We need to show the community that the police are not the bad guys, that does not mean there are no bad guys in the police. Sometimes they slip through, but transparency as to what happens to those problems is needed to continue the trust the community has with the police.

References:

National Institute of Justice. (2009, August 3). The Use-of-Force Continuum. National Institute of Justice. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/use-force-continuum

Oliver, A. (2022). Use of Force Police Training Simulator. Apexofficer.com. https://www.apexofficer.com/resources/use-of-force