New Mapping Police Delineate Brutality

After the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown inward Ferguson yesteryear a police pull officeholder a position out of Ferguson citizens came together to form Hands Up United.

Hands Up United's destination is inward the short-term to larn jurist for the shooting of Mike Brown and, inward the long-term, to assist preclude hereafter incidents of police pull brutality. To assist arrive at this destination Hand Up United has released an interactive map to which anyone tin terminate postal service reports of police pull brutality or police pull misuse of power.


This Google Map from the Cato Institute shows the place of botched SWAT as well as paramilitary police pull raids inward the United States.

The Cato Institute fighting that "the Drug War (has) given ascension to a dramatic increase inward the position out of 'no-knock' or 'quick-knock' raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are oftentimes conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, police pull sometimes behave SWAT-style raids on the incorrect home, or on the homes of nonviolent, misdemeanor drug users."

The Botched Paramilitary Police Raids map uses colored map markers to exhibit raids that led to the expiry of innocent people, the expiry of a non-violent offender, the expiry or injury of a police pull officeholder etc. It is possible to refine the information on the map yesteryear state, yr as well as yesteryear outcome.


Home.Land.Security say that at that spot are many websites dedicated to mapping offense exactly non many that are mapping where people experience vulnerable because of the police pull themselves.

Home.Land.Security claim that many individuals  "including people of color, queer folks, as well as undocumented immigrants" run into a police pull presence every bit itself a threat. They accept hence determined to map police pull shootings as well as targeted arrests for what they telephone band "quality of life" crimes inward San Francisco. 

The Home.Land.Security map allows users to sentiment the locations of 'Officer Involved Shootings' as well as reported  "Quality of Life Crimes". It is too possible to charge demographic information onto the map as well as to sentiment San Francisco neighborhood boundaries.

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