{"id":10090,"date":"2023-02-26T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2023-02-26T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:25:08","slug":"the-most-popular-police-reforms-cant-stop-the-next-tyre-nichols-from-being-killed-heres-what-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10090","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular Police Reforms Can’t Stop the Next Tyre Nichols From Being Killed. Here’s What Might."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Units like these don’t just suffer from a lack of transparency and use tactics likely to spawn violence. Their rhetoric attracts “police officers who enjoy being feared,” Balko notes, and it positions these officers as both elite and beyond the normal rules. There are all sorts of horror stories about similar units, such as Detroit’s STRESS unit (“Over a two-year period, the units killed at least 22 people, almost all of them Black”) or Los Angeles’ CRASH unit (“More than 70 officers were implicated in planting guns and drug evidence, selling narcotics themselves and shooting and beating people without provocation”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memphis has now disbanded the SCORPION squad<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“This is far from the first time that police have drastically misrepresented the way things went down before surveillance footage or body camera videos showed that they weren’t telling the truth. To distill this to its essence: Police lie. They lie to protect themselves. They like to give their activities a more noble sheen. They lie to dehumanize those they arrest or aggress against. And yet members of the media often take cops at their word and move on.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Most Popular Police Reforms Can’t Stop the Next Tyre Nichols From Being Killed. Here’s What Might.<\/a><\/blockquote>