New study: In 50 of the Largest Metro Areas, Govt Authorities are Cramming Low-Income Families Using Federal Housing Vouchers into Poor, Racially Segregated Neighborhoods

From [WashPost] Your neighborhood determines the quality of your children’s schools and your access to jobs, transportation, even fresh food.

But a new study found that in nearly all 50 of America’s biggest metropolitan areas, low-income families using federal housing vouchers remain overly concentrated in impoverished, racially segregated neighborhoods with little opportunity — even with plenty of affordable apartments available in higher income neighborhoods.

The difference between where families with vouchers could be living and where they actually live has long-term consequences, said researchers with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

“It’s going to be a wake-up call for a lot of housing authorities that their programs are quite concentrated and don’t necessarily reflect where families want to live,” said Philip Tegeler, president and executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. “There are plenty of rental opportunities out there. It’s the job of housing authorities to help remove the barriers that are keeping families from accessing these neighborhoods and communities.”

Giving low-income families the option of living in wealthier neighborhoods with better schools and less crime leads to better outcomes. Their children are more likely to go to college and find better-paying jobs, other studies have shown. They are more likely to live in better neighborhoods as adults and less likely to become single parents.

But too few families with housing vouchers live in “high-opportunity” neighborhoods, as defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

[Interactive Map: Where Voucher Households Live in the 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas]

Researchers developed an index of opportunity using HUD measurements of school quality, poverty, labor market engagement, access to jobs, and access to public transit.

Overall, just 5 percent of metropolitan families using vouchers live in high-opportunity neighborhoods even though those areas account for 18 percent of all affordable rentals.

The opportunity gap is highest in San Francisco, San Jose, and Austin.

In San Francisco, 18 percent of voucher-assisted families live in high-opportunity neighborhoods, even though 46 percent of affordable apartments are located there.

In New York, the region with the most families using housing vouchers, only 7 percent live in neighborhoods considered to be high opportunity, even though 28 percent of affordable units are located in those communities.

And in Birmingham, Ala., fewer than 1 percent of families using housing vouchers live in those neighborhoods although 13 percent of affordable units are located there. Instead, 77 percent of impoverished Birmingham families use their housing vouchers in low-opportunity neighborhoods — far exceeding the 49 percent share of affordable rentals.

The study also shows black and Hispanic families with vouchers are more likely than other low-income minority renters to be segregated in minority neighborhoods — although most affordable units are located outside of heavily minority neighborhoods.

(Three of four households that qualify for federal rental assistance do not receive any aid because there is not enough money to meet everyone’s needs.)

The finding suggests local housing voucher programs may be exacerbating residential segregation, the researchers said, and undermining the aim of the 1968 Fair Housing Act to reduce racial segregation in local jurisdictions. In Milwaukee, Birmingham and New Orleans, more than 80 percent of minority households with children use vouchers to live in “minority-concentrated” areas.

“If voucher families appear to be even more segregated than similar renters of color, that signals that housing authorities need to be doing more to uphold their responsibility to the Fair Housing Act,” said Alicia Mazzara, a housing analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who co-authored the report with Brian Knudsen.

Multiple barriers keep families from moving to better neighborhoods, researchers said, including widely varying practices and policies of regional housing agencies such as how the value of vouchers are calculated. [MORE]

The St. Louis Police Officers Association is “Dismayed" that Wesley Bell Fired a White Prosecutor who Helped Sabotage the Grand Jury of White Cop Investigated for the Murder of Michael Brown

From [HERE] The new St. Louis County prosecutor, Wesley Bell, has fired the lawyer who presented the evidence in the case of Michael Brown, the black teenager whose shooting by police sparked violent protests in Ferguson, Mo.

Bell was sworn in on Tuesday, and in one of his first acts, sent a two-page letter to assistant prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh firing her, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports,

A veteran of more than 30 years in the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office, Alizadeh oversaw the 2014 Brown case.

Alizadeh, along with former county prosecutor Robert McCulloch, was responsible for building a case and providing evidence to a grand jury. The grand jury, though, declined to indict officer Darren Wilson.

Brown was shot a total of six times in the front of his body.

The incident, which was investigated by the FBI, and the failure to secure an indictment set off days of unrest and brought a national spotlight to police shootings of unarmed people of color.

The FBI concluded that Wilson shot Brown in self-defense following a struggle for the officer’s weapon.

Wilson resigned from the Ferguson police force with no severance, citing security concerns. The National Bar Association, an organization of African American lawyers and judges, made a complaint to the Missouri Department of Public Safety demanding Wilson's police officer license be revoked. Wilson's attempts to obtain employment as a police officer have been unsuccessful. [MORE]

McCulloch could have directly filed charges against Darren Wilson, the white cop who shot Michael Brown to death, but instead chose to take the case to a grand jury. It is believed by many that McCulloch did not want the grand jury to indict the white police officer. He selected a mostly white (9 out of 12) grand jury. McCulloch’s prosecutors handling the case took the highly unusual course of dumping all evidence on the jurors and leaving them to make sense of it. McCulloch’s office claimed that this is a way to give more authority to the grand jurors, but it was more like a way to avoid charging Wilson at all — and to use the grand jury as cover for the outrage that ensued. [MORE] and [MORE].

The New York Times described prosecutors' questioning of Wilson as "gentle" and said it contrasted with the sharp challenges to witnesses whose accounts seemed to contradict Wilson's, and reported this had led some to question whether the process was as objective as McCulloch had claimed. The Times reported prosecutors asked witness after witness if Brown appeared to be reaching for a weapon when confronting Wilson, though few of them said this. Furthermore, contradictions in testimony by Wilson and other law-enforcement officers were left unchallenged by prosecutors.[77] CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin criticized the prosecutors for asking softball questions during the cross examination of Wilson's testimony, and referred particularly to the fact that no witness could corroborate Wilson's story that he had warned Brown twice to lay down on the ground, and when asked, witnesses said they did not hear him say that. [MORE]

In January 2015 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund* wrote an open letter to Missouri Judge Maura McShane [also white] asking her to investigate Ferguson prosecutor Bob McCulloch and his team for misconduct in the limp-wristed “gentle” effort grand jury he put together in the Brown case. 

The group of experts assembled by the NAACP to review the grand jury transcripts “were struck by the deeply unfair manner in which the proceedings were conducted.” The NAACP cites three areas of particular concern.

1. McCulloch and his team “knowingly presented false witness testimony to the grand jury.” McCulloch admitted this on a radio interview on December 19. The NAACP notes this is likely a violation of the Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct. Specifically, McCulloch allowed a woman to testify as an eyewitness who he knew was not at the scene of the incident and had a history of “racially-charged rants about the incident on the internet.”

2. McCulloch and his team “presented incorrect and misleading statements of law to the grand jury and sanctioned unlawful juror practices.” Specifically, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathi Alizadeh distributed copies of a Missouri statute that was contravened by a Supreme Court decision 30 years earlier. When Alizadeh addressed the issue weeks later she said that the statute was “not entirely incorrect or inaccurate” but the grand jury should “disregard” it. At other times, Ms. Alizadeh seems genuinely confused about what legal standards were at issue and shared her confusion with the grand jury, including this remarkable exchange:

Overall the NAACP finds that there are “fundamental questions about the competency of the prosecutors in this case to conduct the proceedings and the fairness of the proceedings overall.”

3. McCulloch and his team “provided favorable treatment to the target of the grand jury proceedings.” McCulloch, at the outset of the case, told the grand jury that the case was “special.” As the case progressed “the questioning of witnesses often appeared to advocate for defendant Wilson’s version of the shooting.” When the prosecutors questioned Wilson they asked him: “[I]f we are sort of done with your questioning, is there anything that we have not asked you that you want us to know or you think it is important for the jurors to consider regarding this incident?”

The NAACP concluded that the entire process “leaves deeply troubling doubts about whether about whether justice was administered in a fair, impartial and competent manner.” The NAACP encouraged Judge McShane to consider “remedial action — through a new grand jury, appointment of a new special prosecutor, or other means.” [MORE] That apparently went nowhere. But even Nancy Grace thought the grand jury was bullshit.

Bell was a Ferguson city councilman who defeated McCulloch last year in the Democratic primary, campaigning on a platform that included reforming the state's cash bail system and making changes to the culture of the prosecutor’s office.

He reportedly made three different personnel decisions in the office in his first two days.

Alizadeh told the Post-Dispatch she would be speaking to her lawyer over her termination. A request for comment from The Hill was not immediately returned. 

The St. Louis Police Officers Association, which represents most of the St. Louis County assistant prosecutors, called for the reinstatement of the county prosecutors, although Alizadeh is not covered by the union.

"The Association is dismayed by the abrupt dismissal of these three veteran prosecutors without warning or apparent justification," union president Ed Clark said in a statement. "Despite Mr. Bell’s rhetoric about building bridges with career prosecutors, he has apparently decided to suddenly discharge three dedicated public servants in his first hours in office. We call on Mr. Bell to reverse his decision and bring back the three prosecutors and their more than seventy years of combined experience."

White Man Angry b/c ‘Master-Servant Relationship’ was Not on the Menu yesterday at McDonalds, Punched in the Face by Black Cashier After Grabbing Her Over the Counter

It was the last straw and Yurugu Got Less than he bargained for. The NY Post states, a fight broke out at a McDonald’s in St. Petersburg, Florida, after a white customer attacked a Black employee. Video [above] captured at the scene shows 40-year-old Daniel Willis Taylor grabbing employee Yasmine James, who fights back with a flurry of punches. According to a woman who filmed the encounter, the fight broke out after Taylor was unable to find a straw in the restaurant and was told by James that customers by law must ask for straws. [MORE] wha? lets just say McDonald’s food makes everybody McDelusional.

Here, a young Black woman rejected the white man’s invitation to engage in any master-servant role play. Although there wasn’t a lot of power on those punches, in so doing she disempowered him and empowered herself. Hopefully she will run for president.

Dr. Blynd, explained that "racism/white supremacy it is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured, systematic injustice and power over another group. This "group dynamic" involves a master-servant relationship between whites and Blacks in a system of vast unequal power and conditions. No one can play master without servants - it is a two way relationship and most Black people, subconsciously or consciously, consensually play along with it - playing a servant role. Dr. Amos Wilson explains, “the oppressive configuration the White man has assumed in relationship to the Black man is in good part the result of the fact that we have permitted ourselves to remain in a complementary subordinate configuration conducive to his oppressive designs.” He explains,

'white people’s so-called power, is to a great extent based upon the nature of the relationship they have with Black people. We empower them by the nature of our own behavior and attitudes as a people. They cannot be what they are, unless we are, what we are. To a good extent, the European is our creation … yes. If we look at our behavior, we will see that to a good extent, it is our behavior, our values, our consciousness, the kind of personalities we’ve established in ourselves, our taste, our desires and needs; that maintains the European in their dominant position.  

We talk about the Civil Rights Movement, and the Apartheid system of the South, when Blacks decided to just get out of the buses and just walk, the system changed. Yes, when they stopped sitting behind the white driver, just changing that relationship, changed the nature of power, in that system. When they decided then to walk side by side, when they decided to walk abreast and line themselves up, because they had not walked that way before … for the ends to be fought, the relationship changed. When they kept their monies in their pockets, when they sat on the stools and blocked the other people from them, and change the nature of the interactions between themselves and Europeans, the nature of the system changed.  

So therefore we have tremendous Power. It depends upon how we align ourselves as a people, and how we decide to relate to other people in the world, because they cannot have what they have, unless we are who we are. And that is why we don’t have to waste a great deal of time always appealing to them, and analyzing them, because we can better appeal to our own sense of self, and our own consciousness, and we waste a lot of time trying to transform them, when through transforming ourselves, they will be transformed automatically.’

Of course there are other ways to reject the master-servant relationship than by punching white people in the face - here, it was an appropriate response because Yurugu put his hands on her. Also observe that the alleged brother, who witnessed the entire encounter, comes to the aid of the white man. The master-servant relationship roles have nothing to do with particular types employment or the title a non-white person has. It simply refers to how people choose to relate to each other in a system of racism white supremacy. There is nothing wrong with having arms-length interactions & relations with white people but a master-servant relation is not on the menu. Wilson explained, “we must take responsibility for that part of our personality, that part of our community, and that part of ourselves over which we have control, and change that part.”

As explained by Wilson, "It is not so much that the European says we are inferior and that the European maligns our character, et cetera. It is the belief on our part that what he says is true that drives us to be crazy. It is a crazy reaction to what the European says, an insane and unthinking kind of approach to dealing with what he says about us, that maintains the craziness." [MORE] and [MORE] In order to for the system of racism/white supremacy to thrive Black people must be maintained in a particular state of mind - literally kept out of our minds. [MORE]. Watch your mind, change this relationship. 

Trump-Like Racist Psychopath Jair Bolsonaro Sworn In As President Of Brazil

From [DemocracyNow]

According to FUNKTIONARY: 

tyrants - there are none; only tyranny exists. How can one man or woman rule a multitude against their will except through mind-control and word-conditioning control? "Find out the exact amount of injustice any people accept, and you will find out the exact amount of injustice they receive." -Freddy D. "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -John Jay, Castilian Days II, 1872. (See: Tyranny, Terms, "The Law," Dictatorship, Corporate State & Fascism)

tyranny - the miscarriage of self-government. 2) the absence of ethical anarchy. In our system, tyranny must have an accomplice. The perpetrator by intent must be accommodated by the perpetrator by consent. The former initiates, the latter accommodates. Of all tyrannies, the greatest is the tyranny of the ego-mind. "If the government is allowed to place a tax on what is a natural right it can raise that tax to the point where that right has been effectively destroyed. That is tyranny."" Butcher's Union Company v. Crescent City. "No man, no group, and no nation has the right to any man's individual freedom. No matter how pure the motive, how great the emergency, how high the principle, such action is nothing but tyranny. It is never justified." -John W. Parsons. Tyranny Law #1 - Any power that can be abused will be abused. Tyranny Law #2 - Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. Tyranny Law #3 - If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. -John Curran. Retaining and exercising the unalienable right to distribute one's own property and wealth without restriction is the only guarantee of freedom from tyranny. (See: Labor, Anarchy, Appropriation, Income Taxes, IRS, Bill of Rights, Property, Freedom, Self-Determination, GIMME!, Autotyranny, Matrix, Organizations, Private Services & Liberation)

2018 NYC Murder Rate is the Lowest in Several Decades but Media & Government Continue to Promote Fear to Manufacture a Need for More Cops, Surveillance & $5 Billion NYPD Budget

FEAR CITY: Comply or Go to Jail. From [AP] New York City could register the fewest number of homicides in several decades in 2018, as the city continues its long battle against violent crime.

As of Sunday, the city had recorded five fewer killings than the 292 investigated in 2017, according to preliminary police data provided to The Associated Press. That year’s figure was itself the lowest in decades.

The New York Police Department said it also had seen a modest decline in shooting incidents in 2018 and an 8 percent drop in robberies. Figures for other categories of crime were not immediately available.

In the past two years, the city’s homicide rate has plunged to levels that were unthinkable a generation ago, when New York became known as the murder capital of the country and recorded an eye-popping 2,245 homicides in 1990.

The city has recorded fewer homicides in 2018 than Philadelphia, a city with a fraction of New York’s population where police had investigated 351 killings through Sunday.

This year’s statistics include the lowest number of homicides in Brooklyn since record keeping began. District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said last week that trend has coincided with efforts by local authorities to reduce incarceration and to increase diversion for nonviolent offenders.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn said the most significant declines were seen in Coney Island, where not a single killing occurred in 2018, compared to eight slayings in 2017. The tally also plummeted in the 75th Precinct, in East New York, an area once considered among the nation’s most violent places.

There were six killings in that precinct in 2018, Gonzalez said, compared to 126 in 1993.

Disturbing the Peace of the Masters in Public: Latino Man Discovers "His Rights" were Actually Just “Master’s Favors" - NYPD Public Relations Failure After Bullshit Stop

With Crime Low , Why the Fuck Are Cops & Cameras Everywhere? The New York Police Department's (NYPD or the Department) Fiscal 2018 Executive Budget totals $5.6 billion, which is $417.2 million, or 8.1 percent, more than the Department's Fiscal 2017 Adopted Budget of $5.2 billion. [MORE]

“Our city is on track to yet again be the safest big city in America thanks to the work our NYPD officers and community leaders are doing block by block across our five boroughs,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement to the AP. “Neighborhood policing in New York City has defied the naysayers to become the model for 21st century American law enforcement.”

All Thanks to Government. MORE GOVERNMENT MORE COPS MORE DRONES MORE SURVEILLANCE = FACISM. Criminal justice experts attributed the city’s progress to several factors, including its massive police force of 36,000 officers, and a practice known as precision policing in which the authorities focus resources on the most likely offenders.

Compared to other countries’ military manpower the NYPD ranks No. 65 in sheer manpower. There are 133 “recognized countries” in the world, for perspective. The NYPD staffs roughly 55,000 employees. Roughly 72% of that is uniformed officers. [MORE]

“The conventional wisdom was that you couldn’t do anything about crime except maybe reduce it for a while in some areas,” said Tom Repetto, the author of several books on policing in New York. “That has been disproved, and it is amazing that the rate is so low in a city of this size and composition.”

Repetto said he believes the number of killings in New York is approaching what he calls an “irreducible minimum,” suggesting it could be implausible for the number of killings in a city of 8.6 million residents to fall any further. [how incredibly stupid]

These desperate theories to explain the low crime & murder rate sound like the debunked claims about Stop & Frisk being the cause. The NYPD often sought to justify the large number of stops on the grounds that the stop-and-frisk program was critically important to recovering guns and thus reducing shootings and murders. Yet the NYPD's own data contradicted this argument. [MORE]

[legal system based on coercion, violence] Video Shows Lawless NYPD Cop Using Chokehold to En-Force Noise Ordinance on Unarmed Latino Man

Less Crime Means We Need More Cops. How Much For the Bridge Sir? Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, credited the NYPD’s “unrelenting” focus on removing illegal guns from the streets, including the prosecution of some weapons charges in federal court. He also pointed to neighborhood policing efforts and re-entry initiatives aimed at rehabilitating prisoners returning to the community.

“I think the broader story is that the city has understood that the fight against violent crime doesn’t reside solely with the police,” Aborn said. “It’s not because the air is better in New York. It’s because of things the city has done, and it’s making a huge difference.”

Always Seeking Better Relations w/His Masters, coin-operated SNAG Spike Lee Partnered w/the NYPD to Propagandize the [Necessary] Illusion that Cops Exist to Protect & Serve Black People

White Security Guard Charged w/Murder for Shooting Homeless Black Man in the Back at Walgreens in Hollywood [unlike cops, security guards don't have the power to be unaccountable for their actions]

Law of the Jungle Rules [sovereign immunity] and Exemptions from Morality Only Apply to Police Officers in their Relations with People. From [HERE] and [HERE] A white security guard who police say shot and killed a 21-year-old homeless Black man earlier this month in Hollywood was charged with murder by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office Monday.

Donald Vincent Ciota, 28, of Covina faces one count of murder with an allegation that he used a firearm as a deadly weapon. Ciota shot and killed Jonathan Hart inside a Walgreens at Vine Street and Sunset Boulevard on Dec. 2, authorities said.

Ciota is being held on $3 million bail. If convicted, he faces a possible maximum sentence of 50 years to life in state prison.

"We must turn to responsibility of Walgreens because the death of Jonathan Hart has left blood on the hands of executives of Walgreens," he said

Ciota suspected Hart of shoplifting, and the two got into a physical altercation. Ciota pulled his firearm and fatally shot Hart in the back as he ran away, prosecutors said.

Hart died from a gunshot wound to the neck, according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

Family attorney Carl Douglas said Hart was unarmed and was not shoplifting that night. Detectives told family members that Hart had a California ID card in his hand at the time of his death.

The attorney said Hart had gotten into a confrontation earlier that night with the same security guard and had spoken with the store manager before continuing to shop.

Douglas said Monday that Hart’s family was “heartened and encouraged” that Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey’s office has charged Ciota.

Douglas said Hart’s family is planning to file a $525 million wrongful-death suit against Walgreens. Douglas said the family is calling for a boycott of Walgreens until armed guards are removed from their stores.

"We must turn to responsibility of Walgreens because the death of Jonathan Hart has left blood on the hands of executives of Walgreens," he said.

Hart was profiled, harassed and ultimately shot because he was a homeless, gay black man, the lawyer said.

Attorney Mark Geragos, who represents Ciota, said there is video leading up to the shooting that needs to be seen and argues there is no way this should be a murder case.

"My guy was ex-military police, he's a veteran," Geragos said. "If this were a police officer, they would be lauding him, let alone filing murder charges. It's ridiculous. He was assaulted, he defended himself."

Douglas argued the right people have seen the video, and they decided to file murder charges against Ciota.

"I've not yet seen the video, so it would be premature for me to comment substantively. What I do know is that Jackie Lacey has seen the video, what I do know is police investigators have seen the video," Douglas added.

He may have a point here about the video upon consideration of the fact that Lacey never files charges against cops. More than 200 deaths have occurred at the hands of law enforcement since Lacey took office in 2012, yet not one officer has been charged. [MORE] However, Ciota is not a cop or government actor and naturally different standards apply to mere mortals.

Ciota is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, according to a spokesman for the district attorney’s office. His bail is set at $3 million. If convicted as charged, he faces a maximum sentence of 50 years to life in prison.

Black Judge Realizes He’s Been Dreaming: Raises Concerns that White Prosecutors are Charging Blacks w/Harsher Counts than Whites for Similar Crimes and that He’s Part of the Lex-icon [law as image]

IT WOULDN’T LOOK “FAIR” WITHOUT YOU JUDGE. Lex-icon means “law as image - the appearance of justice (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.” FUNKTIONARY.

Here, Judge Fowlkes has been presiding over the illusion. Unbeknownst to the Black participants; Black prosecutors & defense attorneys, Black judges, Black courtroom staff and probation officers are necessary courtroom props in the refinement of RSW of a lawless society. Courtrooms wouldn’t look right without them [see photo above]. Occasional dismissals and acquittals of Black defendants are also a necessary part of the show - encouraging defense attorneys to work harder and thereby making the fake world of court look more real. The appearance of justice is the only thing the criminal courts produce. Nevermind BrownWatch, go observe this phenomenon [racism] for yourself at your local courthouse & make sure you stay long enough to witness a good sampling of white defendants being arraigned & sentenced. By and large, “justice” is incidental, random and accidental in a system of injustice.

From [HERE] A black federal judge in Tennessee has raised concerns that a federal prosecutor’s office in Memphis is charging black people with harsher counts than white people for similar crimes.

D. Michael Dunavant is the US Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. In June 2017, Dunavant was nominated by racist President Donald Trump to become the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 2017; becoming the chief law-enforcement officer for the 22 counties that make up Tennessee's western judicial district, which includes the Memphis area. [MORE]

The Commercial Appeal reports U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. has questioned prosecutors about racial discrimination in at least three recent cases. Judge Fowlkes is a former US prosecutor and public defender.

One of those cases involved a white man who records say sold an undercover officer 100 ecstasy pills for $800, while his black partner stayed in the car with a gun.

Fowlkes asked why the white defendant wasn’t slapped with the same gun charge as the black defendant since they worked together. The gun charge carries an automatic 5-year sentence.

"This is another situation where a white defendant appears to have been treated differently than African-Americans, and I'm concerned about how we're proceeding in this case," the judge said during a Nov. 19 hearing, according to a transcript. 

A statement from U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant [racist suspect in photo with racist Jeff Sessions] denies that race “overtly or implicitly” factors into charging decisions. [MORE]

WHITE PROSECUTORS SESSIONS AND Dunavant BOTH APPOINTED BY RACIST TRUMP

Most people have little understanding of the awesome power of prosecutors (aka district attorneys or attorney generals) or the term "prosecutorial discretion." Media misinformation and lack of information about prosecutors and what they are up to is an intentional part of our conditioning or mind shampoo process.

Prosecutors have the power to decide; whether to charge a person with a crime (any case can be nollied, diverted or deferred - any case. Police make arrests and refer matters to prosecutors who determine whether to prosecute), what charges to paper & present to the court, whether to seek pre-trial confinement or release and what, if any, release conditions to seek, what kind of plea offer to make, what resources to expend to prosecute, what information to disclose to the defense, what kind of sentence to seek & recommend to the court (such as confinement, probation or to defer the imposition of a sentence), whether the death penalty will be sought and whether probation should be revoked or extended. They also have a say in whether to seal arrest records or expunge criminal convictions. Further, prosecutors set broad policies, deciding the aggressiveness with which different laws will be enforced, and other law enforcement officials often follow their lead. These decisions are overwhelmingly made by white people about non-white people because the vast majority of prosecutors are white and criminal defendants are disproportionately non-white.  Specifically, according to a recent study, 95 percent of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country are white, and 79 percent are white men (by comparison, white men make up 31 percent of the population of the United States). Also most States have no Black prosecutors. [MORE]. On the federal level 87% of all US Attorneys are white - as 8% of assistant U.S. Attorneys are African American and 5% are Latino. [MORE] and [MORE].

Additionally, the power of the prosecutor (or the executive) even in the face of egregious misconduct is basically unchecked by judges or state bar organizations, whom are also overwhelmingly white. [MORE]

As stated by law professor, Angela Davis, “at every step of the criminal process, there is evidence that African Americans are not treated as well as whites - both as victims of crime and as criminal defendants. And because prosecutors play such a dominant and commanding role in the criminal justice system through the exercise of broad, unchecked discretion, their role in the complexities of racial inequality in the criminal process is inextricable and profound. . . Prosecutorial discretion is a major cause of racial inequality in the criminal justice system.” [MORE]

Of course, not all white people are racist/white supremacist - but most whites are in a system of racism white supremacy. Neely Fuller explained that racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a universal "operating system" of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate. Racism is the dominant feature of the criminal justice in the United States. To that end, a major goal of the white supremacy system is the greater confinement of substantial numbers of non-white people. To the extent that a racist prosecutor had anything to do with the prosecution of a non-white defendant, the criminal process was most likely unjust in some respect.

According to Kenneth Montgomery, a black former prosecutor for the Brooklyn, New York district attorney’s office, “prosecution is about locking black people up.” “I thought that because of who I was, because of the street and academic smarts I had, I was able to do some things that were more in line with justice. But, it was like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. In the long run, I didn’t think it was worth it, so that’s why I left.” [MORE]

Like the Rest of the World, although the Vast Majority of NFL Players are Black, Nearly All the Owners & Coaches are White: After Firings on Monday Less than 1% of the League’s Coaches are Black

Dr. Bobby Wright observed, “although the world is 90% non-white, everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the Whites are in control. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every know statistical law of probability.” [MORE]

Dr. Amos Wilson similarly states, "[Blacks] must question how is it that a minority people [whites], a very small percentage of mankind, a people who are essentially resourceless in terms of their natural resources, maintain the power they have. Why is it that the peoples whose lands contain the wealth of the earth are the poorest people? This implies that there must exist a political, social situation wherein the mental orientation of our people must be so structured that the power and the ability of the Europeans to rule this earth are continually maintained.' [MORE]

From [NY Times] The N.F.L.’s 32 owners made an unexpected announcement after meeting a few weeks ago: The league was strengthening rules that obligate teams to consider minority candidates when hiring coaches and executives in their front offices.

At the time, the league said it was just trying to beef up existing regulations, not reacting to criticism that teams had been skirting the rules for years.

“Our focus was simply: How do we make the Rooney Rule better?” Robert Gulliver, the league’s chief human resources officer, said, referring to the rule adopted in 2003 and named for Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers at the time who pushed for the regulations.

Now, the league’s stated commitment to the rule will be put to the test.

On Monday, the number of African-American coaches fired in 2018 soared to five, leaving only two black coaches in a league where at least 70 percent of the players are African-American.

Race is already a much-discussed topic in relation to the league. Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who in 2016 began kneeling during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality toward people of color, has not played in the league for the last two seasons. His protests amplified an already polarizing debate across the country, and he has filed a grievance accusing the N.F.L. of colluding to keep him off the field.

Coaches losing their jobs at the conclusion of the regular season is routine and expected, as they fall victim to the merciless pressure from owners and fans to succeed year after year. In addition to the five black coaches fired, three white coaches were let go this season, in Green Bay, Tampa Bay and Miami. But with the N.F.L. under pressure to increase the percentage of minority coaches and executives, the makeup of the latest class of jettisoned coaches was especially startling.

Four black coaches were fired Sunday or Monday, including the Jets’ Todd Bowles, who was let go shortly after his team’s final loss Sunday. The Jets had a 14-34 record in the last three seasons under Bowles.

Marvin Lewis, who had been at the helm of the Cincinnati Bengals since 2003, was fired Monday. Though he had resurrected the moribund Bengals and took them to the playoffs multiple times, he never won a playoff game and this season was Cincinnati’s third consecutive one with a losing record.

Also fired Monday was Denver Broncos Coach Vance Joseph, who had presided over the first back-to-back losing seasons for the Broncos since the early 1970s. In Arizona, Steve Wilks had been the Cardinals’ coach for just one season when he was fired Monday after his team compiled a league-worst record of 3-13.

In October, another African-American coach, Hue Jackson, was fired after his teams were 3-36-1 in roughly two and a half seasons.

The two black head coaches still in the N.F.L. are Anthony Lynn of the Los Angeles Chargers (12-4), who are headed to a wild-card playoff game Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers (9-6-1).

Carolina Panthers Coach Ron Rivera, who is Latino, is the only other non-white head coach.

With eight coaching vacancies, it is possible that some of the recently dismissed coaches will be leading candidates for those openings; their experience and certain attributes may be a better fit with other teams. Jackson, for example, was on Lewis’s coaching staff in Cincinnati. And there are other minority candidates, like the Kansas City offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and Stanford Coach David Shaw, whose names have popped up in coaching discussions. [MORE]

[government never stops arrogating power to itself] With its Drones Grounded due to Rain, NYPD Prohibited Umbrellas at the Times Square Ball Drop and Used 1200 Cameras to Surveil People in the Crowd

CBS News reported at the 2019 ball drop in NYC there was plenty of security in place: Uniformed and plain-clothed officers positioned on the ground and on rooftops, along with 1,200 cameras rolling on the crowds.

The pouring rain did keep the NYPD from deploying drones as they had planned to, but Police Commissioner James O’Neill said revelers shouldn’t be concerned.

“This is going to be one of the most well-policed, best-protected events in one of the safest venues in the entire world,” he said. Under the pretense of keeping everyone safe the NYPD prohibited Umbrellas, backpacks and large bags.

Dr. Blynd explains, “the outworking of history consistently demonstrates that government will, in spite of the Bill of Rights, arrogate all power to itself eventually, if the people don't act to prevent it.”

FUNKTIONARY further states,

“Throughout history many intelligent thinkers all around the world have tried to contemplate or design some way to have "government" and freedom too. Failing miserably and repeatedly to find one either in practice or in theory, it is time for intelligent human beings to give way to beings of higher consciousness using sagacity and sapience to finally realize that:. 1) "government" itself is a deadly mental contrivance and immanent threat to their freedom; 2) there is no way to prevent "government" from constantly increasing its power and eroding freedom; 3) "government" itself being a reification (deadly cartoon) will vanish when the illusion on which it rests dissipates.

This goes for all brands and flavors of "government" across the ideological spectrum.” [MORE]

WHO IS WATCHING WHO? Racist suspect Andy Cohen stood up to authority about 80-minutes into CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage from Times Square, when the New York Times Authorities forced him to close up his clear umbrella in the pouring rain. MEANWHILE, Showcase SNigger Leslie Jones promoted the ongoing smiling face to make racist suspects feel comfortable.

With a Goal of Knowing Everything About Everyone, DHS is becoming Big Brother Incarnate: the "HART" Database will be Able to Identify & Track All People in Public Places, w/o Their Knowledge

SURVEILLANCE STATE. From [PLN] The United States Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has taken a giant leap toward achieving its apparent goal of knowing everything about everyone: the development and launch of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (“HART”) database. The database allows DHS to organize and correlate multiple biometric identifiers, including human faces—with “other modalities,” such as biographical information, “relationship patterns” and information obtained by law enforcement officers during “encounters” with citizens.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”), the database will be shared with other federal agencies, state and local law enforcement groups, and even foreign governments.

If this all sounds slightly alarming, it should. DHS already has a fingerprint database containing information on 220 million individuals and processes 350,000 fingerprint transactions every day. The EFF says that all told, the agency manages over 10 billion biographic records. Ten to 15 million more are added each week.

The data being collected in the HART database is “especially concerning,” according to the privacy rights organization. Biometric data, most notably faces, are being vacuumed up by federal agents at an alarming rate. Agents from both Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (“ICE”) and Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) scan and capture face data of everyone with whom they come into contact. And by “everyone,” the EFF means exactly that: According to its June 7, 2018 report, faces are grabbed regardless of whether the accosted individual is suspected of a crime or an immigration violation.

“When combined with data from other government agencies, these troubling collection practices will allow DHS to build a database large enough to identify and track all people in public places, without their knowledge—not just in places the agency oversees,l ike airports, but anywhere there are cameras,” said the report.

If that’s not scary enough, consider thatDHS plans to include “records related to the analysis of relationship patterns among individuals” in the HART database. While DHS has not made clear where such data will be obtained, the EFF suspects that social media will be the first place that the G-Men will look to gather relationship data. Such data, said the EFF report, will likely be “misleading or inaccurate.” This is problematic for a variety of reasons, prime among them the fact thatHART data will be used to inform an officer’s decision to stop, search, and arrest people.The HART database also will include officer “encounter data.” This data will include information obtained by an officer in any way. Because officer “encounters” are frequently not based on suspicion of criminal activity or wrongdoing, compiling and organizing data from such encounters for use in future criminal investigations or prosecutions isconstitutionally suspect.The EFF report concludes that “DHS’s plans for future data collection and use should make us all very worried,” and called for Congressional intervention. Congress has never authorized such broad-scale collection of facial recognition data, and it seems highly unlikely that it would. Moreover, DHS “has a well-documented history of poor data management.”“Congress must step in with more over-sight and act now to put the brakes on DHS’s broad expansion of data collection,” the report said.

AZ Sheriff said White Staff Intentionally Shoving & Dragging Small, Non-White Kids on Video at Migrant Shelter was Not Criminal Assault [images blurred to protect the System of White Supremacy]

WHAT IS RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY? The civil rights movement probably would NOT have been as effective if white media & GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES COULD HAVE BLURRED OUT IMAGES LIKE THIS BACK IN THE DAY. in what way is the image blurring similar to a klansman’s hood?

From [HERE] A case regarding the alleged abuse of migrant children in a Southwest Key shelter will be referred to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review and to determine whether criminal charges will be filed, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

The news comes after the Arizona Republic obtained surveillance videos through an open records request that show staffers pushing and dragging migrant children in a shelter operated by Southwest Key, the nation's largest provider of migrant children shelters.

According to the newspaper, the incidents took place at the Hacienda Del Sol shelter in Youngtown, Arizona, in mid-September and involved three children and numerous staffers.

Southwest Key closed the Hacienda Del Sol facility in late October after negotiations with state health authorities who were considering revoking the licenses of 13 Southwest Key shelters in Arizona, according to the Arizona Republic.

CNN previously reported the Arizona Department of Health Services considered the move because Southwest Key had failed to provide the department with proof it conducts background checks on employees.

The videos were blurred and edited by the state's Department of Health Services, which licenses the migrant shelters.

One clip published by the Arizona Republic shows a male staffer dragging a young child into the room and pushing him against the wall. There appears to be a confrontation between the two before the male staffer leaves the room.

Another video shows a female staff member pulling a child through the room and attempting to enter another room.

The child lies on the ground and the female staffer drags the child through the doorway as another staff member pulls a different child into the conference room and drags that child into the next room.

The Arizona Republic in October submitted a records request to the Sheriff's Office for details on the incidents that prompted the suspension. The agency has yet to provide records, but late Friday, a spokesman said after reviewing the specific surveillance videos, as well as hours of other videos to ensure no harm to children, it found no grounds for criminal charges.

"(T)he investigation determined that while physical force and restraint techniques were used against these minor children, these actions did not rise to the level of criminal charges," Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez said in a statement.

State law permits the kinds of restraint techniques shown in the videos, he said. [MORE] As such, even though police witnesses the assaults on video they did not believe the conduct established probable cause for arrest. Thus, no arrests were made by cops. Could you shove or drag a white person’s kid on the floor?

Take a look at the law of assault in Arizona;

Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13. Criminal Code § 13-1203. Assault;  classification

A. A person commits assault by:

1. Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing any physical injury to another person;  or

2. Intentionally placing another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury;  or

3. Knowingly touching another person with the intent to injure, insult or provoke such person.

B. Assault committed intentionally or knowingly pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 is a class 1 misdemeanor.  Assault committed recklessly pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or assault pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2 is a class 2 misdemeanor.  Assault committed pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 is a class 3 misdemeanor.

In In general. in the case of either kind of assault,] Injury means any physical injury, however small, including a touching offensive to a person of reasonable sensibility.

Now police have referred the matter to the prosecutors. In a statement released Sunday: "Based upon the evidence gathered during this thorough investigation, MCSO executive command has made the decision to submit the case to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for its review and determination of criminal charges."

The case will be submitted on Monday, the sheriff's office said.

The company issued a statement at the time of the incident.

"We wholeheartedly welcomed the Office of Refugee Resettlement's decision to suspend operations at Hacienda Del Sol and are working to thoroughly retrain our staff," Southwest Key spokesman Jeff Eller told the Arizona Republic in a statement on October 5.

"We are simultaneously engaging the Child Welfare Consulting Partnership to do an independent, top to bottom review of our processes, procedures, hiring and training in our Arizona shelters."

Georgia DA Claims Federal Task Force Executed Black College Student: Cops Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times Without Provocation or Exigent Circumstances After Warrantless Entry of Luxury Apartment

From [HERE] The Atlanta-area district attorney claims in court that the Department of Justice has refused to hand over records about members of a federal task force who fatally shot a black college student-athlete at least 59 times.

Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old college student and football player at Clark Atlanta University, was shot and killed by a team of local and federal officers who broke down the door to his girlfriend’s apartment at the Parkside Camp Creek Luxury Apartments in Atlanta on Aug. 5, 2016, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Atlanta federal court by the office of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard. Howard is Black.  

With the exception of a traffic violation, Mr. Robinson had no criminal record.

COVER UP. The District Attorney’s Office says it has repeatedly attempted to work with the DOJ to obtain the personnel files and training materials of the officers responsible for Robinson’s death, all to no avail. The court filing states, “the DOJ has steadfastly refused to produce records related to this homicide.“ The “DOJ has denied the requests of the Office of Fulton County District Attorney—the one office responsible for the investigation and prosecution of state crimes committed in Fulton County.”

“It has now been 875 days since the officers killed Mr. Robinson, and the DOJ has yet to provide any of the documents or evidence requested and has failed to provide any investigative reports relating to Mr. Robinson’s death,” the complaint states.

Faced with repeated opposition, the DA had to submit a FOIA request for records.

The Office of Fulton County is asking a federal judge to force the DOJ to comply with his requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

MURDER. According to the complaint, a federal task force comprised of 14 officers from eight local municipal police departments and at least one U.S. marshal went to the apartment to execute a Georgia arrest warrant based on allegations that Robinson committed an aggravated assault under GA law.

According to the filing the officers failed to secure a search warrant or seek consent from the third-party tenant to enter the apartment unit where officers believed Mr. Robinson to be located. Although the officers conducted over two hours of surveillance at the apartment complex, giving them ample time to secure lawful entry, the officers failed to obtain a search warrant or to gain consent to enter the apartment.

It also explains, before entering the apartment, the officers also failed to positively determine that Mr. Robinson was inside. The officers did not enlist the help of the third-party tenant who was present inside the apartment within hours of the shooting and who left the apartment in full view of the officers while they were conducting surveillance. The officers failed to engage or communicate with the third-party tenant to gain consent to enter, to determine whether Mr. Robinson was indeed inside the apartment, to determine the mental state of Mr. Robinson, or to gain assistance in negotiating Mr. Robinson’s peaceful surrender. It further states,

“There is also no indication that there were exigent circumstances that would have permitted the officers to enter the apartment without consent or a search warrant. There was no evidence at the time that Mr. Robinson had a weapon or that he presented any threat to the officers from his location inside the apartment.“

Except for a traffic violation, Robinson’s record was clean, the DA says.

Without any indication that Robinson had a weapon or presented a threat to the officers, the task force knocked the apartment door down and immediately fired 51 shots from outside into the apartment, the lawsuit states. It says, cops shot “into the apartment without any known provocation and with reckless disregard for the safety of anyone else in the apartment and surrounding apartment units.”

According to the complaint, the officers then entered the apartment and fired 41 more shots from various weapons “including a 9mm submachine gun, a .40mm submachine gun, and a .40 Glock pistol.”

More than 90 rounds were fired into the apartment, DA Howard claims.

“The medical examiner recorded over 59 entry wounds into Mr. Robinson’s body. Without the documents requested, described herein, there is a question as to whether Mr. Robinson’s killing was justified,” the complaint states.

COPS LIED. At the conclusion of the shooting, a firearm was located, which the officers claimed that Mr. Robinson fired at them three times. However, when the firearm was recovered, it was damaged and inoperable.

Moreover, in an investigative report completed by Officer Steve Schreckengost, he did not state that the officers entered the premises because Mr. Robinson was shooting. Rather, Officer Schreckengost claims they entered to protect others inside the apartment from Mr. Robinson, although it was clear from their surveillance no one else was in the apartment.

A January 2018 federal lawsuit filed by Robinson’s mother, Monteria Robinson, against police officers and detectives involved with the task force alleges that her son posed “no immediate threat” to the officers “or anyone else” at the time of the shooting.

The DA’s office seeks an order enjoining the DOJ from continuing to withhold non-exempt records responsive to the FOIA request and compelling the agency to search for and provide the relevant records.

Loans Backed by the Threat of Violence: Under PA Law, Loansharks who Prey on Black People, like Rent-A-Center, Can Seek Arrest & Criminal Charges for Falling Behind on Lease-to-Own Payments

From [HERE] It’s been a few days since people have gotten to enjoy their Christmas gifts. Holiday deals allow families to purchase toys, televisions, and furniture: the big buys that are typically reserved for the end of the year. 

But for low-income families, they may be paying off those gifts for years. 

A recent article in the New York Times detailed the practices of lease-to-own stores like Rent-A-Center, and how they can take advantage of low-income customers. 

The article shows how Beats by Dre headphones can be rented for $20 a week, but after a 61-week payment plan, those headphones end up costing more than $1,219. Beats by Dre headphones typically run about $350 or less. Other popular items also follow this formula. 

“The legal documents say that a Rent-A-Center in Northern California ultimately charged, after installments, $1,379.54 for an Xbox that normally retails at $299.99, and $2,834.19 for a television that sells for $717.60,” reads the Times article. 

Those tactics are criticized as being predatory, but customers in Pennsylvania have it even worse. According to state law, customers who fall behind on payments to lease-to-own stores can ultimately wind up in jail. 

According to the Cumberland County’s The Sentinel, “theft of leased property requires only that a person obtains property through a lease or rental agreement and then intentionally deals with the property as their own.” This means falling back on lease-to-own items like video-game consoles can end up being a criminal offense. 

People are guilty of the crime if they intentionally deal with the property as their own. They’re presumed to have intent if they sign an agreement in a name other than their own and fail to return an item within the time specified, or fail to return the item seven days after a written demand is delivered to them. Theft of anything over $2000 is a felony. [MORE]

Rent-to-own companies and industry experts say these businesses lease out millions of items per year and rarely pursue criminal charges against customers. But critics, which include everyone from prosecutors to defense attorneys to judges, argue that these laws effectively turn the criminal justice system into a taxpayer-funded collection agency for corporations in what should be a civil matter.

“Make no mistake,” said Kevin Hoffman, a defense attorney in York, who added that the law enables these stores to avoid hiring a lawyer and filing a civil case. “It makes it easier for them to collect.” [MORE

For example, a Cumberland County man who fell behind on payments for a TV actually ended up spending months in prison, according to 2015 court documents. 

“Rent-to-own businesses create more problems for consumers than they are worth, charging prices after fees that can be four to five times higher than retail prices,” says Mark Price, labor economist at Harrisburg’s Keystone Research Center. “The rent-to-own businesses model in Pennsylvania is also particularly costly for taxpayers because consumers that fail to pay often end up in our jails.”

One loophole is charging the payments on a credit card, which would mean failing to pay back the credit card, a civil offense. 

Even so, Price says the Pennsylvania Auditor General should look into this matter. Price cites regulation of the payday loan industry, and he thinks similar rules could be applied to lease-to-own operations. 

Low-income buyers typically fall victim to the lease-to-own scheme. The Times points out this could be because many of these lease-to-own stores are located in low-income and minority neighborhoods, which is the case in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Allegheny County is home to 10 Rent-A-Center stores. All but one of them are in census tracts that have median household incomes below the county average of $56,333. These include Braddock Hills, Deutschtown, Knoxville, Penn Hills, South Side, Versailles, and Ingram in the West End.

The tract home near the Rent-A-Center in McKees Rocks has a 2017 median household income of just $23,266. 

Also, six of Allegheny County’s census tracts with Rent-A-Centers contain larger than average Black populations. This includes a section of Wilkinsburg that is 82 percent Black, with a 2017 median income of just $31,667 a year. 

The only Rent-A-Center in Allegheny County in an area with higher than average income and below average minority population is Central Lawrenceville. 

Rent-a-Center locations outside of Allegheny County with lower-income areas and larger than average Black populations include Aliquippa in Beaver County, New Kensington in Westmoreland County, and Washington in Washington County

Psychopath Trump Pretends his 'Funnel Policy' of Blocking Traditional Points of Entry w/Border Patrol in order to Force Migrants Onto Dangerous, Death Defying Routes Didn’t Contribute to Kids Deaths

MURDER BUT NO DETERRENCE. From [HERE] President Donald Trump deflected any blame from his administration for the deaths of two Guatemalan children this month in U.S. government custody as his Homeland Security chief visited Border Patrol medical officials amid promises of more thorough health screenings for migrant children.

Instead, the president, whose administration has faced widespread criticism over the deaths, pointed the finger on Twitter at Democrats "and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally." They were his first comments on the deaths.

He also tweeted that the children were "very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol." [MORE]

TRUMP’S NEUROPEON AND NEUROPEAN DUMMIES WHO WANT TO BE DECEIVED, DOMINATED & FEEL NECESSARY TO HIS DOMINATION. HE STANDS FOR WHATEVER THEY FALL FOR.

NEUROPEON BORDER PATROL HAPPILY DUMPS OUT WATER VOLUNTEERS LEFT OUT FOR MIGRANTS IN THE DESERT SO THEY MIGHT DIE OF THIRST.

'The Psychopathic Racial Personality. Dr. Bobby Wright explained ‘by and large, white people treat each other humanely. But in their relations with non-white people, racists function as psychopaths. The psychopath is an individual who is constantly in conflict with other persons or groups. He is unable to experience guilt, is completely selfish and callous, and has a total disregard for the rights of others.

Behavioral scientists generally agree that the outstanding characteristics of the psychopathic personality are the almost complete absence of ethical or moral development and an almost total disregard for appropriate patterns of behavior. This characteristic has led to a misunderstanding of the psychopath as someone who does not know the difference between right and wrong. This belief is not true; psychopaths simply ignore it.

By ignoring this trait in racists (the lack of ethical and moral development) Blacks have made and are still making a tragic mistake in basing the worldwide Black liberation movement on moral suasion. It is pathological for non-whites, particularly Blacks to keep attempting to use moral suasion on a people who have no morality where race is the variable.'

[Vanilla Vice] Expanding the Number of Non-White Immigrants in Jails isn’t just Policy; it’s Big Business. $800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Prisoners Work for Pennies

From [DailyBeast] For $3 a day, Yesica works the graveyard shift in the kitchens of the for-profit immigration prison where she is locked up.

Each morning, at 1 a.m., the guards of the Joe Corley Detention Facility in southeast Texas rouse Yesica and the 35 other women who share a dormitory-style room. Work begins an hour later and lasts through sunrise, ending at 8 a.m. Yesica does everything from cooking breakfast, to serving her fellow detainees, to cleaning up.

Even at $3, toiling in the kitchen pays better than sweeping prison corridors, which pays the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-stipulated minimum of $1 a day. The work, officially speaking, isn’t mandatory. But “since there’s absolutely nothing to do” inside, Yesica said, detainees work to keep at bay the stress of not knowing when they’ll be released—or if they’ll be deported.

Yesica, 23, fled her native El Salvador after MS-13 persecuted her for being a lesbian. The brutal gang, which the Trump administration uses to demonize immigrants like her, murdered her father, and she came to the United States to seek the safety of rejoining family here. She has instead spent the last two years locked inside ICE’s prisons.

“This is a really terrible place,” Yesica told The Daily Beast through a translator from the Corley center. “It’s inhumane. It’s like a torture chamber.”

These are dangerous times for undocumented immigrants. ICE has been super-charged by the Trump administration. And ICE’s empowerment has been lucrative for the companies that both cage and employ immigrants like Yesica.

A Daily Beast investigation found that in 2018 alone, for-profit immigration detention was a nearly $1 billion industry underwritten by taxpayers and beset by problems that include suicide, minimal oversight, and what immigration advocates say uncomfortably resembles slave labor.

Being in the U.S. illegally is a misdemeanor offense, and immigration detention is technically a civil matter, not a criminal process. But the reality looks much different. The Daily Beast reported last month that as of Oct. 20, ICE was detaining an average of 44,631 people every day, an all-time high. Now ICE has told The Daily Beast that its latest detention numbers are even higher: 44,892 people as of Dec. 8. Its budget request for the current fiscal year anticipates detaining 52,000 people daily.

Expanding the number of immigrants rounded up into jails isn’t just policy; it’s big business. Yesica’s employer and jailer, the private prisons giant GEO Group, expects its earnings to grow to $2.3 billion this year. Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to President Trump’s campaign and inaugural.  

Pinning down the size and scope of the immigration prison industry is obscured by government secrecy. But the Daily Beast combed through ICE budget submissions and other public records to compile as comprehensive a list as possible of what for-profit prisons charge taxpayers to lock up a growing population, and how many people those facilities detain on average. The result: For 19 privately owned or operated detention centers for which The Daily Beast could find recent pricing data, ICE paid an estimated $807 million in fiscal year 2018.

Those 19 prisons hold 18,000 people—meaning that for-profit prisons currently lock up about 41 percent of the 44,000 people detained by ICE. But that’s not a comprehensive total, and the true figures are likely significantly higher. The National Immigrant Justice Center estimated that for November 2017, roughly 71 percent of immigrant detainees, then a smaller total figure, were held in 33 privately operated jails like the Joe Corley detention center in Texas where Yesica resides.

Providing a comprehensive tally of ICE detention centers is difficult. The Department of Homeland Security claims ICE operates “nearly 250,” but a study earlier this month for the American Immigration Council found 638 sites, more than twice the DHS figure. ICE told The Daily Beast it uses 205 facilities, citing information on its website that immigration researchers consider incomplete and misleading. Separating out the privately run facilities is even more difficult, since some of ICE’s state and local partnership prisons are run by for-profit companies, and complete lists are frustratingly difficult to find. In response to The Daily Beast’s queries, ICE said it could not provide a full breakdown of contractor-operated immigration prisons.

“Ensuring there are sufficient beds available to meet the current demand for detention space is crucial to the success of ICE’s overall mission. Accordingly, the agency is continually reviewing its detention requirements and exploring options that will afford ICE the operational flexibility needed to house the full range of detainees in the agency’s custody,” said ICE spokesperson Danielle Bennett. [MORE]

Racist Suspect Shelby County Mayor Authorized Surveillance Tools to Record & Monitor all Inmate Calls, Amass their Voice Prints & Track the Cellphone Location of Anyone They Talked To

From [HERE] With the stroke of a pen in December 2017, the administration of then-Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell gave the nation's largest jail-and-prison phone provider, GTL, the green light to provide county investigators with a suite of high-tech surveillance tools that record and monitor all inmate calls, amass their voice prints and track the cellphone location of people who are not incarcerated, on the other end of the line.

In the year since the contract was signed a location service offered by GTL’s primary competitor, Securus, became the subject of a Federal Communications Commission investigation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement, barring exigent circumstances such as bomb threats and active shootings, must have a warrant to gather cellphone location information. And, GTL became embroiled in a scandal for recording attorney-client phone calls — for the third time in three years.

Lauren Lee, spokeswoman for new County Mayor Lee Harris, said the location tracking portion of Shelby County's contract was never implemented. She did not address a question as to how the change was formalized.

GTL spokesman James Lee said the company installed a new phone system in Shelby County in 2017, but cellphone location tracking services "ended up not being used." Upon further questioning as to whether the change prompted a decrease in price, Lee said the system is still being implemented, which could make a change in pricing premature.

The Commercial Appeal’s public records request for all GTL contracts and amendments did not return any documents showing any alteration to the fully executed contract, which details the inclusion and cost of three separate “intelligence bundles,” including location tracking — with a planned execution date of February 2017.

The county may not be using the legally problematic service. But, the absence of an amendment implies that inmates’ families are still paying a rate that covers the cost of it.

'Absolute surveillance' 

The discrepancy between the contract and statements from the company, and county spokespersons, comes as the legality of the location service is in question. 

GTL's winning bid, which describes the company's "Location IQ" product, was "incorporated fully" into the contract, according to records obtained by The CA.

"To create more actionable intelligence for the County, Location IQ uses powerful and accurate Carrier Tower and GPS location based services to access a called party's location regardless of the network or device type," GTL's bid states.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “deeply revealing” personal information about cellphone owners — automatically generated and stored by wireless carriers — should be protected by the Constitution, requiring a warrant. Writing the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts described cellphone location tracking as "absolute surveillance," akin to attaching an ankle monitor to a person.

Separately, GTL's counterpart Securus became the subject of an investigation in August, for potentially violating the Communications Act, through “allegedly sharing the location information of American citizens without adequate safeguards,” in the words of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai.

Pai mentioned the investigation in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. A proponent of internet freedom, Wyden pressed the federal agency to investigate Securus, after a Missouri sheriff was charged with inappropriately using Securus' location tracking platform, to surveil a judge and state troopers, the New York Times reported.

GTL's Shelby County bid offered similar "on-demand" tracking and live monitoring of the location of people on calls with inmates. Company spokesman Lee initially told The CA that GTL does not offer or utilize on-demand location services. He later said that it was considered in 2016 but Shelby County did not request it. County spokeswoman Lee said she didn't know why it is in the contract.

Lt. Anthony Buckner, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff’s office and former gang investigator, shared an example of how he once listened to a call to advance a tip regarding a murder for hire that he said was commissioned from the jail. 

But, Buckner did not address four requests for comment as to whether the agency uses any location tracking tool and if a warrant is involved. 

Biometric analysis and address lookup

The other surveillance features listed in Shelby County's contract documents enable the extraction of called phone numbers and include biometric software that analyzes calls by words used and the degree of emotion expressed — then flags them for investigators' review. That review can occur while the conversation is in progress or after copies of call records are automatically stored for a year, at GTL data centers in Alabama and Texas.

Authorized county personnel can also select files they wish to keep longer, play back calls remotely — on off-site computers and smartphones — and email call recordings directly from GTL's interface.

The biometric software also automatically collects samples of inmates' voices during calls to build a voice print, with what GTL calls "state-of-the-art accuracy," though the company's bid also mentions the possibility of "false positives."

Separate from the Location IQ product, GTL's bid documents also describe a "no-cost," built-in feature that gives county investigators "unlimited" access to "a large industry database" that supplies the billing name and address associated with a phone number, along with a satellite image or map of the address.

Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology project, argued the U.S. Supreme Court case which compelled the majority of justices to come down on the side of protecting cellphone location information.

The local branch of the ACLU also recently brought the Memphis Police Department to court for spying on activists via Facebook. [MORE]

White Lakeland Police Chief says Black Cops were Authorized to Kill Black Teen Driver by Opening Fire Into a Car as It Passed Them in a Crowded Parking Lot in Order to Protect the Public

MORALLY AUTHORIZED BLACK ON BLACK CRIME. From [HERE] and [HERE] As dozens of bystanders milled about in a crowded restaurant parking lot, three Black Lakeland police officers drew their guns and opened fire on a vehicle they believed was a stolen Chevrolet Camaro as the Black teen driver ignored their commands and tried to pull away. On video the cops do not appear to be facing any imminent danger from the vehicle.

At least one round struck and killed the driver, 17-year-old Michael Jerome Taylor of Winter Haven, sparking protests by critics who say the officers used excessive force.

The incident early Wednesday highlights the wide of range of policies followed by law enforcement agencies nationwide on shooting at moving vehicles. [The white media has reported that in some jurisdictions the cops’ conduct just might be ok - because public policy says so. In a legal system based on coercion and violence what is right and wrong is determined by policy created by politicians/authorities not cops’ their individual conscience. Remember, we “the people” have morally authorized cops to commit unprovoked acts of violence. Although we don’t have such powers in the first place, somehow we magically delegated “authority” to cops and politicians for them to tell us what to do and enabled them to do things we aren’t authorized to do - like shoot at moving vehicles posing no threat to us. Such leaps in logic are usually found in religions, which is what all government is!]

Investigations of the Lakeland shooting are underway, but police Chief Larry Giddens praised his officers and said an early assessment indicates they followed department policy. Giddens, pictured below is white.

Officers were called to Salem's on Memorial Boulevard about 2:20 a.m. because a large crowd had congregated there after leaving a nearby club, according to a Lakeland police news release.

At about 2:48 a.m., officers spotted a Camaro they suspected was stolen, approached the car and ordered the driver to get out, according to the police account.

In a 42-second segment of video, captured by a surveillance camera, Officer Markais Neal approaches the Camaro from the front with his gun drawn and the driver rapidly accelerates. Neal, 28, quickly backs up to get out of the car’s path and successfully does so. Then, standing on the side of the car and out of its path of travel he begins firing as it passes. The Camaro strikes one car, then two more. Neal continues to fire from behind the Camaro as it pulls away.

At the same time, two other officers behind the Camaro, Joseph Novis and Raj Patel, fire a number of rounds toward the back of the fleeing car. Several cars that appear to be occupied are visible beyond the Camaro.

When the Camaro stops a short distance away, a woman gets out of the passenger seat. The Camaro rolls slowly forward then accelerates again, crashing into a parked car and pushing it into an adjacent wall.

Officers pulled Taylor from the car and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

On the driver's-side floorboard, investigators found a loaded firearm that had been reported stolen.

At the scene, Chief Giddens said the officers fired to protect themselves and the public.

"With over 200 people, there are a lot of people that were placed in jeopardy this morning, in harm's way," Giddens said. "This is a 3,500 pound deadly weapon that that gentleman unprovinkingly drove at our officer," Chief Giddens said his officers had no choice. "All he had to do was turn the car off and give up."

According to Lakeland Police Department Policy, 

Sworn members shall not discharge a firearm at a moving vehicle unless the member reasonably believes it is necessary to do so in order to protect themselves or others from imminent death or great bodily harm. [DS 4] [AMEN]

A department news release said the driver "attempted to run over an officer who had to jump in between two parked vehicles to avoid being hit" and put officers and the public in "immediate life-threatening danger," so officers "were forced to open fire."

Officers did not know who was in the car at the time of the shootings or that a gun was present, police spokesman Gary Gross said. The video shows the cops were not in any danger from the fleeing vehicle. [But the driver was Black so white media, white prosecutors and judges/jurors are mind blocked. Thus, executing a Black teen is probably reasonable to them.]

The three officers were placed on routine paid administrative leave. Novis, 25, and Patel, 23, have been with the department for 18 months, Neal for one year.

Once Neal was able to jump out of the way, any imminent threat to him had passed, Martinelli said. Investigators will have to determine if the threat to others justified firing as the vehicle moved away from the officers, Martinelli said.

The shooting also points up a cardinal gun-safety rule, he said: Know what's beyond your target.

"Research shows officers can only hit the target 12 to 14 percent of the time at distances of two to 10 feet," Martinelli said. "These guys are throwing rounds down range at this vehicle and the question you would ask yourself as an investigator is who's behind that vehicle."

For decades, law enforcement experts and reformers have said police should avoid shooting at moving vehicles.

"It's not like television. You're not going to stop the vehicle," said Ron Martinelli, a former police officer who now works as a forensic criminologist specializing in officer-involved shootings. "If you wound or kill the driver, you've got nobody in control of the vehicle."

In its Guiding Principles on the Use of Force, the Police Executive Research Forum, a research and policy organization known as PERF, says law enforcement agencies should prohibit shooting at moving vehicles "unless deadly physical force is being used against an officer or another person by means other than the moving vehicle itself."

The New York Police Department adopted that policy back in 1972, and departments in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., have since done the same.

But many agencies continue to give officers "much wider discretion to shoot at moving vehicles," the PERF report notes.

After Black Teen Expressed Contempt at White Rochester Cops who Unlawfully Stopped Him to Examine His Bottle of Juice, said Cops Grabbed Him by the Neck, Punched & Maced Him During False Arrest

From [HERE] and [HERE] New claims of police brutality and excessive force by another white Rochester police officer were filed Friday. The lawsuit claims a 16-year-old Black boy was beaten, handcuffed, and then pepper sprayed in the back of a police car.

The teen's mother says she cried when she found out what happened and the teen's lawyer, Rochester City School Board President and civil rights attorney Van White, says the policeman involved should be criminally charged just like anyone else who beat someone up would be.

According to the lawsuit, on May 25, Maddox was approached by officers who believed he was drinking alcohol. But, the lawsuit states, Maddox was only drinking a bottle of juice he bought from a store on his way home from school.

LARKEN ROSE STATES, It is very telling that many modern “law enforcers” quickly become angry, even violent, when an average citizen simply speaks to the “officer” as an equal, instead of assuming the tone and demeanor of a subjugated underling. Again, this reaction is precisely the same – and has the same cause – as the reaction a slave master would have to an “uppity” slave speaking to him as an equal… The state mercenaries refer to this lack of groveling as someone having an “attitude.” In their eyes, someone treating them as mere mortals, as if they are on the same level as everyone else, amounts to showing disrespect for their alleged “authority.”

Similarly, anyone who does not consent to be detained, questioned, or searched by “officers of the law” is automatically perceived, by the mercenaries of the state, as some sort of troublemaker who has something to hide. Again, the real reason such lack of “cooperation” annoys authoritarian enforcers is because it amounts to people treating them as mere humans instead of treating them as superior beings, which is what they imagine themselves to be. [MORE]

During the incident, Maddox says he was handcuffed, but later released. As he walked away, the lawsuit says he called on of the officers, Perelli, a name. The lawsuit doesn't specify what exactly was said.

But, according to Maddox, the utterance led to Perelli slapping then grabbing Maddox around the neck. At that point, the lawsuit alleges:

After violently attacking Mr. Maddox, several officers wrestled Mr. Maddox down to the ground. After these officers wrestled Mr. Maddox to the ground, Defendant Perelli began to punch Mr. Maddox repeatedly – who at that point was completely defenseless.

After putting handcuffs on Mr. Maddox for a second time, officers placed Mr. Maddox in the back of a police vehicle.  Once Mr. Maddox was secure in the vehicle, Defendant Perelli sprayed mace on Mr. Maddox as he sat a defenseless and handcuffed in the back of the police vehicle. With the vehicle windows and doors closed, Mr. Maddox could barely breath. In court documents, Maddox's attorney Van White alleges that this was done "in order to torture" his client.

Maddox was charged with resisting arrest, harassment and a violation of the alcohol beverage and container law. The lawsuit says after the arrest, Maddox was taken to Monroe County Jail, but the charges against him were ultimately dropped by the district attorney's office.

In other words, after he was unlawfully stopped for having juice, he was unlawfully searched and detained [put in handcuffs]. Then after he was released a white cop initiated a criminal assault against him. Subsequently he was falsely arrested, incarcerated and faced a malicious prosecution that ultimately was dropped. The system of white supremacy/racism is based on violence and predicated upon black people's belief in many, many lies. The 4th Amendment so-called right to be free from unreasonable seizures and searches and right “to be secure" or to move freely without apprehension of oppression as you come and go is one of those lies. Brazen cops so frequently abuse their power that no Black motorist, juvenile, adult or professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that constitutional rights afford Black people any real protection from the Government. 

During a news conference on Friday, White played a clip showing surveillance video of the altercation. The teen's family and White say the damage he suffered was unfair and shows a severe problem with the Rochester Police Department.   

"He doesn't feel safe, not even walking the streets, not going to the rec center, not doing anything. He is very afraid of the police," said Lucrecia Maddox, mother of the teen. 

"If you saw that happening to somebody you love, you would be saying 'what is wrong with that police officer? And what is wrong with a system or police department that would let him and others treat people that way,'" added White.