People living in Los Angeles sewers

Best summary of the Prairieland Trial for a noise demo at an immigration detention center

Most people mistakenly assume that police solve crimes on a daily basis. According to University of Utah law professor Shima Baughman's research, just 11% of significant crimes end in an arrest and 2% in a conviction. A significant proportion of serious crimes usually remain unsolved.

What are police doing instead? Most cops spend between 46% and 81% of their time on “unassigned” duties, such as eating lunch or filling out paperwork. And when they’re on patrol, cops playing with their phones has become such a problem that even Mayor Eric Adams, a former cop himself, has expressed his “frustration.” Two weeks after the subway shooting, Adams asked New Yorkers to send him photos of officers using their phones while on duty. “We are going to start taking very aggressive actions to make sure police are patrolling our subway system and not patrolling their iPhone,” the mayor warned.

The host asks him about his police department officers working with ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’, as crowd control, he skits around the question & goes back to the evil (& yes it is evil, not saying i t is not) of ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’ actions in his city.

I keep posting here that mayors do not want to take on their police departments

Prisoners in Minnesota are earning less than a dollar an hour making products for Disney. That’s according to organizers and former inmates who gathered at a press conference in December to share what they’ve learned — or experienced firsthand — about the exploitative prison labor system in Minnesota.

Organizers with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee called the press conference last month to update the public about their campaign to end what they call prison slavery.

The Minnesota constitution allows for exactly that – slavery as part of a punishment for a crime. Under article one, section two of the state’s constitution, involuntary servitude is barred unless someone has been convicted of a crime. Under the statute, prisoners can be subjected to unpaid and grossly underpaid work.

Through a subcontractor, Anagram International LLC, Disney has taken advantage of this law to extract nearly-free labor from the state’s inmates, paying them $0.90 an hour to fold large Mylar balloons, according to organizers of the event and two inmates who shared their firsthand experience.

…We would NOT be in BLANK, We are in Now-‘The Crazy Don’s Second-Presidential Term.

The people may not have yet to come out in the numbers, constantly done it in shifts & everywhere these evil sickos go as they should, but the parties are filled with members of our species that should be able take the lesser activism & still solved this evil-sicko problem!

If the solution was imprisoning ‘The Crazy Don’ & his administration, then so be it, instead of running the clock on the Jan 7th, 2020 insurrection, as BOTH parties did.

I will forever remember what follows along with other times/campaigns that ‘The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party have violated the voters trust!

The first-time I (& my ‘Dem. “90+% Capitalist” Party protecting family members) were protesting the ‘Crazy Don’s First-Presidential Term’s federal gov.’s Cutler Bay, Fl. concentration camp, the running for re-election Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party candidates were all there & promising such nice actions on their parts.

The second-time I (& my ‘Dem. “90+% Capitalist” Party protecting family members) were trying to protest the federal gov.’s Cutler Bay, Fl. concentration camp, the running for re-election Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party candidates were all like we cannot do it, because The Rep. ‘Crazy Capitalist’ Party Pinecrest, Fl. mayor said no.

As a long time activist, been in protest actions were a lot worst was legally done, I was mad & only found-out why it was replaced with a campaign stop that pointing-out if Hillary ‘Hid Her Husband’s Sex With Trafficked Women’ Clinton was now President, then this would not being happening. Like the first protest we attended their was our Dade County Commissioner, who formerly was a former Social Worker & campaigned on that (much like Mr. Obama campaign on being a former poor people’s rights activist in Chicago; not saying either is not true, just their hearts have obviously changed), attended the second event.

When a new, to me, activist that was distributing signs that said, abolish ICE (back then), also showed-up again, she decided she was going get on the stage & talk about the concentration camp & imprisoned immigrants.

One of the running for re-election Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party candidate, over the open mike, yelled that she had to wait until everyone else spoke. As you can imagine after the last running for re-election Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party candidates was done speaking the event was done, so no she was never given ability to speak.

Long before that I was so mad, I just left for the car, that I was carpooling with my parents in, my family members that showed-up loved the event. I was the only member of my family that walked-out of the BS!

…There Is The Option To NOT Vote, When You Were A Former Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party/Rep. ‘Crazy Capitalist’ PARTY Voter, But Cannot Find A Political Left Party’s Candidate! After you experience the link I provided of ‘The Democracy Now’ segment, From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing, you will understand why I said the above!

For the linked ‘Democracy Now’s segments:

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing- This is must understand about our country, been this way from the creation of law enforcement. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

“He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti- Go to 54-Mins. & notice how the city’s police (the national guard was not there!) just waited for ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’ to do their illegal, sick & evil actions on the activists & immigrants & move-on, before they moved-in. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/alex_pretti_shooting_minneapolis

“ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids- Go to 25-Mins. & notice how the city policy are corralling the activists at the airport, NOT taking on ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/minnesota_strike_ice_out

Yes, ‘Democracy Now’ is doing a awesome job, that lamestream media will never do, of mentioning & showing in short parts of segments how The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party Politically Controlled Minnesota’s & Minneapolis’s Politicians are NOT doing their jobs in PHYSICALLY (words mean nothing without actions, first & legal actions take way too long) protecting Immigrants & activist from ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’ & with today’s awesome segment (I am buying that book), how we are a country where both parties use police-ICE to keep people happy with the sick & evil system of Capitalism, but…
…my criticism of ‘D N’s coverage of this is they not had expert on for a full 30-min. segment talking how The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party Politically Controlled Minnesota’s & Minneapolis’s Politicians must do their jobs in PHYSICALLY (words mean nothing without actions, first & legal actions take way too long) protecting Immigrants & activist from ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’!

So I am serious when I say if The Minnesota National Guard & Minneapolis Police (& any other Minnesota’s cities’ police want to join in; why the BLANK not, your city could be next?) PHYSICALLY (even if shots are fired by them) protecting the immigrants & people causes either A EMERGENCY ‘USA Supreme Court’ Case or worse a new Civil War, then was worth it!! We as the sane & majority people of The USA cannot allow this to go on like it is & when it is finally stopped unanswered!!!!! As I posted here before, this is even a situation where these states should working with a EU military force to protect these immigrants & people, it a MARK ON NOT JUST THE DEM. ‘90+% CAPITALIST’ PARTY, BUT THOSE EU COUNTRIES!!!!! I know UN cannot do anything, under the way The UN laws protect the evil actions of the 5-most powerful countries, since WW II

The Los Angeles Police Department is requesting nearly $100 million in city funds for vehicles and equipment for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, more than two years out from the world's largest sporting event coming to L.A.

LAPD wants to buy around 500 vehicles and "mobile units," including 300 patrol vehicles, vans and an armored SUV worth half a million dollars. It also is requesting funds for an upgraded radio network and equipment including new computers and more than 1,600 body cameras. In total, it's asking for around $96 million.

The request raises questions about promises that the Olympics will be "no-cost" for taxpayers. The spending laid out in the police department's proposed budget for 2026-2027 names the city as the funding source.

Thank You, for this feed & Your posting about all this entails!

One thing that is extremely frustrating is how The New NY C Mayor was too scared to take on The NYC Police Department, Jails & Prisons!

Excuse me, for me not know how, but how are we going to be able to abolish The Police Departments & Jails & Prisons, when even The Largest Cities’ Mayors are scared to touch them, let alone abolish them?

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/flippanarchy/p/596572/abolish

but how will we stop the roving hordes of chainsaw murderers who I know are just waiting to get me? > > https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/community-self-defense

Detained without trial in 2006, Zubaydah is one of 15 people who remain at the US military prison.

Calling the police often escalates situations, puts people at risk, and leads to violence. Anytime you seek help from the police, you’re inviting them into your community and putting people who may already be vulnerable into dangerous situations. Sometimes people feel that calling the police is the only way to deal with problems. But we can build trusted networks of mutual aid that allow us to better handle conflicts ourselves and move toward forms of transformative justice, while keeping police away from our neighborhoods.

Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also enabling the genocide in Palestine. But the World Cup, Olympics, and other mega-events are more than just business opportunities. They are advertisements for the Israeli military and government’s public-private consortium of surveillance, spying, and military contractors. Increasingly militarized and securitized mega-events are secured by firms run by former Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldiers and Mossad agents, expanding the reach of these groups, enabling them to monitor and surveil populations throughout the world. These firms train local police, security, and soldiers on techniques they experimented with and perfected while serving the IOF’s genocidal colonization scheme in Occupied Palestine.

Dodger Stadium (an LA28 Olympic venue) made national headlines last month when autonomous community members and grassroots rapid response networks observed hundreds of federal agents using the surrounding parking lots as a processing and staging area for ICE’s continued raids and kidnappings. Mainstream media parroted the Dodgers’ own claim that ICE was denied entry, and the organization has since pledged a measly $1 million towards financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.

The story serves as the latest example in a long legacy of LA stadiums, often built with public funds and dressed in civic pride, instead repeatedly used as instruments of repression against Black, brown, and immigrant communities.

For decades, these venues have been quietly transformed into launchpads for police raids, mass arrests, and immigration operations, as well as forces of displacement.

In the early 1870s, Wandsworth Prison in London produced haunting photographs of child offenders at a time when photography itself was still a novelty.

Many of these children were harshly punished for petty thefts that today would barely merit a warning. In Victorian society, no distinction was made between adult and juvenile criminals, so even very young offenders were sent to adult prisons, and in extreme cases, executed. Authorities, fearful of rising crime, began using cameras to document repeat offenders and circulated their images much like modern-day public warnings. It was only with the 1908 Children’s Act that juvenile courts were established, ending the practice of placing children in adult prisons or sentencing them to death, though corporal punishment remained.

Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University, talks about the conditions and treatment of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israeli detention centres.

John Oliver discusses felony murder, a way you can wind up in prison for murder without actually killing anyone.

In addition to the extensive technology at its disposal, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is devising plans for a bounty-hunting program that would enlist private contractors to help carry out Donald Trump’s mass deportations.

... Bushart’s arrest came after he decided to troll a message thread about a Charlie Kirk vigil in a Facebook group called “What’s Happening in Perry County, TN.” He posted a meme showing a picture of Donald Trump saying, “We should get over it.” The meme included a caption that said “Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after,” and Bushart included a comment with his post that said, “This seems relevant today ….”

His meme caught the eye of the Perry County sheriff, Nick Weems, who had mourned Kirk’s passing on his own Facebook page, The Intercept noted.

Supposedly, Weems’ decision to go after Bushart wasn’t due to his political views but to receiving messages from parents who misread Bushart’s post as possibly threatening an attack on the local Perry County High School. To pressure Bushart to remove the post, Weems contacted the Lexington Police Department to find Bushart. That led to the meme poster’s arrest and transfer to Perry County Jail...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved another large settlement for hundreds of people who alleged they were abused as children while in the county’s care.