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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this also addresses the “did she deserve to loose her job to the mob” complaint. if she went to jail, she’d lose her job anyway presumably
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Yes, a real prosecution also addresses "what happened before." Please investigate! Police to take these threats to black people's lives seriously and for the district attorneys to bring a few cases... I don't like it at all when someone makes a bad joke and gets slammed online.
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Or some high school student says something terrible! It should not become a national subject, following an 18 year old for the rest of their lives on Google. People grew out of their teen sometimes terrible selves and their backgrounds. This? Attempted swatting? Not so minor.
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i think this issue emerges across digital spaces. they are not yet fully bound to the governance and enforcement systems in the offline world. at the moment they are running on their own emergent, chaotic rules, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill
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Yeah I agree. It's not a precise or calibrated tool; but I don't think this particular case should be lumped in with "made bad joke, life ruined" kind of examples. In this case, there is grave offline injustice with lethal consequences, and no offline tools to address it.
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