Authorities have released shocking video that shows a white police officer in Illinois shooting a Black woman – who called police in fear of a home intruder – in the face, killing her.

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    3 months ago

    Hm, that wasn’t what I was talking about wanting to see. To me, what would be good to see would be a breakdown of, starting from the total number of shootings or use-of-force incidents in any given year:

    • How many the agency didn’t release bodycam footage for
    • How many we got the bodycam footage and it looked justified
    • … it looked debatable
    • … it looked unjustified

    That’s a fuck of a lot of work, which is presumably why we don’t see it. But that to me would be a good way to analyze whether things are actually working.

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      3 months ago

      But that to me would be a good way to analyze whether things are actually working.

      I agree, and to put my cynical hat on again, I think would be the job for the oversight teams that (to my knowledge) cops throw a tantrum about whenever they come up, and which I don’t think are widely implemented, or not effectively implemented in many cases.