People complain about the social media “mob” (and there are issues) but the core problem here is that even after such videos, people like her aren’t ever prosecuted. It’s clearly a false and malicious report, a crime, and it seems like she’s trying to get him “killed-by-cop.”https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1265090833138810881 …
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zeynep, what can police do about problems of scale here though? there just be zillions of crimes of this nature documented online every day. makes me think that as with governance, policing needs to move into online/digital spaces too, and adopt those space’s tools
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A few prosecutions with real penalties for false reports might be a good deterrence. Apparently, police showed up thinking they were responding to an assault. The guy is a birder, maybe binoculars in hand—looks enough like a gun. Next thing you know, the guy's a hashtag.
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It's a form of swatting via weaponized racism. And police didn't used to take those seriously and swatter kept doing it and people died. False report is a felony with jail time. Can't quickly fix racism but can create deterrence to terrible behavior like this. That's all I got.
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yup, i agree w the take. wondering what operations changes, if any, police need to make in order to carry out a good number of prosecutions in this mould. i guess the truth is likely just a lack of will
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Yeah, the law they need is already on the books. They go after Erik Garner for selling single cigarettes but these false reports never get prosecuted. If a few people did time, I think it would help.
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And the online rage? It's clearly not the best tool—too imprecise, usually overshoots, not always right target, no due process— but what tool do people have? If people worried about the "mob", so to speak, the solution seems to be at least to try to offer justice.
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