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I'm not sure exactly what kind of mechanism they have to track such information, but some departments clearly do keep tabs on people who are vocally hostile tow

I'm not sure exactly what kind of mechanism they have to track such information, but some departments clearly do keep tabs on people who are vocally hostile towards police. take a look at this video if you have a minute. dispatch explicitly warns the officer that the guy has said threatening things about police on social media. unfortunately, the encounter ends in a (very likely) unjustified shooting of an unarmed suspect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFWR73R9G3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFWR73R9G3E

rhizome 5y ago
>dispatch explicitly warns the officer that the guy has said threatening things about police on social media. In which case the dispatcher should be charged with murder too, just like the officer has been. http://www.stanislaus-da.org/pdf/news/2021/press-release-20210318-lamantia.pdf http://www.stanislaus-da.org/pdf/news/2021/press-release-202... The "warning" was based on an "officer safety bulletin" that was issued in response to Instagram posts, which I'm willing to accept was the result of a complaint (possibly someone namesearching for "MPD," we don't know). The police actually visited and interviewed him before determining that there was no threat. The original notice was rescinded and reissued saying he wasn't a threat. I haven't been able to find more detail, but it would seem the dispatcher took it upon themselves to relay the original bulletin. :shrug: It'll come out in the transcripts. It seems to me that--unless you have other info--the police weren't tracking people so much as acting on complaints. I think we can conclude this was not information that appeared as part of the car computer, since the dispatcher thought it necessary to add to it. I have issues with the idea of "officer safety bulletins" based on Constitutionally-protected activities, but that's a different story.

rhizome 5y ago

>dispatch explicitly warns the officer that the guy has said threatening things about police on social media. In which case the dispatcher should be charged with murder too, just like the officer has been. http://www.stanislaus-da.org/pdf/news/2021/press-release-20210318-lamantia.pdf http://www.stanislaus-da.org/pdf/news/2021/press-release-202... The "warning" was based on an "officer safety bulletin" that was issued in response to Instagram posts, which I'm willing to accept was the result of a complaint (possibly someone namesearching for "MPD," we don't know). The police actually visited and interviewed him before determining that there was no threat. The original notice was rescinded and reissued saying he wasn't a threat. I haven't been able to find more detail, but it would seem the dispatcher took it upon themselves to relay the original bulletin. :shrug: It'll come out in the transcripts. It seems to me that--unless you have other info--the police weren't tracking people so much as acting on complaints. I think we can conclude this was not information that appeared as part of the car computer, since the dispatcher thought it necessary to add to it. I have issues with the idea of "officer safety bulletins" based on Constitutionally-protected activities, but that's a different story.