The Misuse of Mechanical Ventilation Created the False Appearance that COVID was Exceptionally Deadly, which in turn Promoted Acceptance of COVID Shots that Cause Sickness/Disability and Excess deaths
/AI Links COVID Deaths to Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
From [HERE] Another piece of news that’s been making the rounds is that artificial intelligence (AI) has linked COVID mortality to unresolved ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), basically, a secondary bacterial infection caused by intubation that didn’t respond to treatment. As described in the abstract, published April 27, 2023, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation: 16 17
“We performed a single-center prospective cohort study of 585 mechanically ventilated patients with severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, 190 of whom had COVID-19, who underwent at least one bronchoalveolar lavage [BAL].
Given the relatively long ICU length of stay among patients with COVID-19, we developed a machine learning approach called CarpeDiem, which groups similar ICU patient-days into clinical states based on electronic health record data.
CarpeDiem revealed that the long ICU length of stay among patients with COVID-19 is attributable to long stays in clinical states characterized primarily by respiratory failure. While VAP was not associated with mortality overall, mortality was higher in patients with one episode of unsuccessfully treated VAP compared with successfully treated VAP (76.4% versus 17.6%, P < 0.001).
In all patients, including those with COVID-19, CarpeDiem demonstrated that unresolving VAP was associated with transitions to clinical states associated with higher mortality.
Conclusions: Unsuccessful treatment of VAP is associated with greater mortality. The relatively long length of stay among patients with COVID-19 is primarily due to prolonged respiratory failure, placing them at higher risk of VAP.”
Use of Ventilation Is Likely the Core Problem
While many have argued that this study shows secondary infections are to blame for many a COVID death, Modern Discontent 18 on Substack calls for prudence when interpreting these results, stating that upon closer scrutiny, the study doesn’t offer much in terms of substantial evidence.
Moreover, whenever you’re using AI, what comes out depends on what was put in, and in this case, CarpeDiem did not supply important data variables, and this may have skewed the results. Since “key factors have been excluded from the analysis there’s going to be several flaws in interpreting the correlative power of some of CarpeDiem's results,” Modern Discontent warns, adding:
“Overall, I’ll argue that the study has serious issues in outlining their data. There’s a ton missing here, including which bacteria were cultured from BAL samples.
The timing of BAL collection is up in the air, and the study also doesn’t make it clear early on how many patients actually experienced an episode of VAP, whether in the COVID group or the other groups (you have to dig into the actual body to find a reference to VAP episodes).
The lack of organization makes the study rather difficult to read, and I won’t say that I have it figured out yet ... It’s quite clear that many of these individuals are already in various states of severe respiratory distress and failure as noted by the clinical states and relative mortality rates, making these people more at risk of death irrespective of from SARS-COV2 or a bacterial infection ...
It’s not necessarily the secondary infection that is cause for concern, but the fact that many patients require ventilation.
Upon ventilation, the secondary concern may be the secondary bacterial infection, although the researchers don’t provide any insights into why some patients were not able to resolve their VAP episode. This is, again, an issue with the lack of data provided by the researchers themselves.”
COVID Jab Accepted Due to Ventilator-Driven Death Toll
Now, aside from the massively coercive PR campaign, one of the reasons that many accepted the COVID shot without much deliberation was the fact that hospitalized COVID patients were dying in droves. They didn’t want to end up on a vent and die, and all the pundits said the shots would prevent you from getting seriously ill and dying.
The problem, of course, is that mechanical ventilation should not have been a standard treatment for COVID, and some doctors realized this within a few weeks. High-flow cannulas and proning were far more effective. 19
The reason mechanical ventilation was promoted as an early intervention was not because it was helpful for the patient, but because it was thought to protect the staff from the virus. It was a strategy to reduce contagion. 20
This was detailed in provider guidance 21 from the World Health Organization in March 2020.
The guidance recommended 22 escalating treatment to mechanical ventilation as rapidly as possible to isolate the virus inside the mechanical vent machine. In other words, they put patients on a treatment they knew would likely kill them to “save” staff and other, presumably non-COVID, patients.
Considering this context, blaming the death of vented patients on secondary infections may be little more than an attempt to shift blame away from hospitals that adhered to these ineffective and dangerous protocols.
I disagree with Modern Discontent when he or she says that the primary concern is “the fact that many patients require ventilation.” There’s plenty of evidence that says they don’t, and without ventilation, the risk of ventilator-associated secondary bacterial infection drops to zero, does it not? Secondary bacterial infections may still occur, but they won’t be VAP.
So, in conclusion, the misuse of mechanical vents created the appearance that COVID was exceptionally deadly, which in turn helped promote acceptance of the experimental COVID shots, which are now a leading cause of frequent sickness, chronic disability and excess deaths.
Doctors with Ethics, Post-Plandemic? A Leading Medical Journal says ‘Physician Involvement in Executions Violates Medical Ethics’
/From [HERE] A May 20, 2023 editorial in a leading medical academic journal concludes that physician participation in executions “goes against the ethical foundation of the physician's role” and argues that doctors and medical associations should oppose capital punishment.
The editorial in The Lancet describes how many physicians currently participate in executions: Doctors “clinically assess mental competence for execution; physically examine and monitor vital signs before, during, and after execution; and certify death. In extreme cases, physicians take the role of executioner and are implicated in illegal organ procurement from executed prisoners.” The authors note that some physicians may participate out of a desire to reduce suffering and others may be coerced into participating. But The Lancet agrees with the views of the World Medical Association, American Medical Association, Physicians for Human Rights, and other human rights groups that explicitly oppose medical professionals’ participation in capital punishment because it violates medical ethics. The Lancet concludes that, “Physician involvement [in executions] enables this continuing abuse of human rights and undermines the four pillars of medical ethics—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice.”
The editorial also broadly criticizes the biased application of the death penalty around the world. Citing Amnesty International’s report on the global use of the death penalty in 2022, the editorial explains, “executions frequently correlate with areas where dictatorial regimes prevail, often silencing political protest and enforcing views on issues such as drug use and LGBTQ+ identities. …The death penalty is the most brutal form of structural, state-sanctioned discrimination, racism, and homophobia.”
Minnesota Abolishes Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences
/From [HERE] Minnesota lawmakers this week abolished life imprisonment without parole for children. The reform is part of a public safety bill designed to transform the state’s approach to children accused of criminal offenses.
The bill not only retroactively eliminates juvenile life-without-parole sentences but also provides that children sentenced in adult court will be eligible for supervised release after at least 15 years in prison.
A newly created Supervised Release Board will be required to consider an expert assessment of the individual’s cognitive, emotional, and social maturity as well as relevant science on children’s neurological development.
Approximately 40 people will be eligible for review, University of Minnesota law professor Perry Moriearty toldthe Star Tribune.
The new law also creates a statewide Office of Restorative Practices to promote alternative, community-based approaches to hold children accountable, respond to victims’ needs, and address the issues underlying children’s behavior.
State grants will be provided to counties to develop local restorative justice initiatives, such as victim-offender dialogues and family group conferences, with input from parents, youths, school administrators, county prosecutors, and local law enforcement.
“Too often, the criminal legal system just focuses on punishment,” Justin Terrell, executive director of the Minnesota Justice Research Center, told the Star Tribune. “But expanding restorative outcomes and making it a priority for the system means that you’re addressing the harm that’s been caused and that people can actually move on from that harm — and that helps create safe communities.”
Gov. Tim Walz tweeted Tuesday that he plans to sign the legislation, which will make Minnesota the 28th state to abolish life-without-parole sentences for children.
AG Probes Racism Allegations in liberal, white Boston: The Main Criteria for the Police Gang Database is Skin Color (90% Black and Latino). Cops Targeting Law Abiding People and Kids as "Gang Members"
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What are elite racists up to in cities run and controlled by white liberals?
From [HERE] The Massachusetts attorney general's office has launched an investigation into allegations of racial bias at the Boston Police Department’s youth gang unit and its associated database, according to a statement from the office released late Monday.
The probe by state Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s civil rights division will examine an alleged “pattern or practice of racially biased policing” within the Youth Violence Strike Force, the department’s gang unit, state officials said. A Boston police spokesperson says the department will cooperate with the review.
State officials say the review will look into the task force's work since 2018 with a goal of reforming the gang unit, following calls from civil rights advocates who want the database to be abolished, citing alleged racism and a lack of transparency. It comes amidst a national review of similar units following the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, who was killed during a traffic stop by five members of that city's now disbanded gang unit.
"The Boston Police gang database is flawed and shouldn't be relied on to make consequential decisions about people’s lives,” said Carol Rose, the executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, one of several civil rights groups who sued the police department last year to make more information about the database public. “The database overwhelmingly targets Black and Hispanic young people, who have been labeled as gang members for little more than wearing popular brands or even becoming a victim of gang violence … the attorney general is right to investigate it."
A “gang” is qualified as three or more people who individually or together engage in criminal activity, frequent a specific location and share a common name or identifier, like a color or symbol, according to the Boston Police Department’s rules and procedures. Gang members are “active” if they have met the criteria to be associated with a gang, had contact with another gang member or participated in gang activity within the last five years.
A summary provided by the department in response to the ACLU’s 2019 lawsuit showed that 90% of the 4,700 individuals in the gang database at that time were Black or Latino.
“Youth have been surveilled in Dorchester and Roxbury for wearing a certain kind of hat or hanging out in a certain corner of the neighborhood,” said Massachusetts Bail Fund Director Janhavi Madabushi. “There's just such a low threshold for what gets you onto a list, and whatever gets you on that list is something that justifies you being policed or surveilled for however long the unit deems necessary.”
An association with the gang database can prevent pre-trial detainees from getting access to bail for months or even years, Madabushi said.
“We're seeing an increase in dangerousness hearings, where a prosecutor and judge can determine through a random set of criteria that a person is too dangerous to be let out on cash bail,” she said. Detainees take plea deals to limit jail time in what Madabushi described as “a dangerous pattern in preventive detention … detaining of people who are supposedly innocent until proven guilty, but not this time.”
The investigation is ongoing and has not yet made any findings or conclusions. If issues are discovered, the goal is to work with the police department in reforming the unit and database, a spokesperson for Campbell said.
Madabushi says it remains unclear whether the investigation will result in “the type of victory that our community members need and want to see,” and will require the attorney general’s office to seek out directly impacted people, many of whom might be hesitant to come forward.
“I feel a little bit apprehensive to sort of rejoice before understanding how the [attorney general’s office] is going to conduct this investigation, what their considerations are,” she said. “But I hope that this surfaces what community members have been saying for a really long time.”
Facial Recognition Technology Cannot Tell Black People Apart (and maybe that's the point) and Police Use It Disproportionately to Arrest Black People, according to a Georgia State University Study
/From [HERE] Imagine being handcuffed in front of your neighbors and family for stealing watches. After spending hours behind bars, you learn that the facial recognition software state police used on footage from the store identified you as the thief. But you didn’t steal anything; the software pointed cops to the wrong guy.
Unfortunately this is not a hypothetical. This happened three years ago to Robert Williams, a Black father in suburban Detroit. Sadly Williams’ story is not a one-off. In a recent case of mistaken identity, facial recognition technology led to the wrongful arrest of a Black Georgian for purse thefts in Louisiana.
Our research supports fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. We found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a belief that these programs are infallible and a tendency of officers’ own biases to magnify these issues.
While no amount of improvement will eliminate the possibility of racial profiling, we understand the value of automating the time-consuming, manual face-matching process. We also recognize the technology’s potential to improve public safety. However, considering the potential harms of this technology, enforceable safeguards are needed to prevent unconstitutional overreaches.
FRT is an artificial intelligence–powered technology that tries to confirm the identity of a person from an image. The algorithms used by law enforcement are typically developed by companies like Amazon, Clearview AI and Microsoft, which build their systems for different environments. Despite massive improvements in deep-learning techniques, federal testing shows that most facial recognition algorithms perform poorly at identifying people besides white men.
Civil rights advocates warn that the technology struggles to distinguish darker faces, which will likely lead to more racial profiling and more false arrests. Further, inaccurate identification increases the likelihood of missed arrests.
Still some government leaders, including New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, tout this technology's ability to help solve crimes. Amid the growing staffing shortages facing police nationwide, some champion FRT as a much-needed police coverage amplifier that helps agencies do more with fewer officers. Such sentiments likely explain why more than one quarter of local and state police forces and almost half of federal law enforcement agencies regularly access facial recognition systems, despite their faults.
This widespread adoption poses a grave threat to our constitutional right against unlawful searches and seizures. [MORE]
Parroting Fresno Police the White Media says ‘Roberto Corchado Had a Lengthy Criminal History’ to Justify Why White Cops Shot Him 5X in the Back and Head while His Hands were Held High - Suit Filed
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From [HERE] Fresno civil rights attorney Kevin Little has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Fresno police acted illegally when offices shot and killed 29-year-old Roberto Corchado on March 4.
Little is suing the City of Fresno, Police Chief Paco Balderrama and two officers involved in the shooting, Luke Tran and Bryce Hammond, the attorney said Tuesday.
City spokesperson Sontaya Rose said Tuesday that officials cannot comment on pending litigation.
In a 32-page wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday, Little accuses the police of shooting at Corchado, a man with a lengthy criminal history, while he had his hands up and his back to the officers.
“This was clearly an unjustified shooting,” Little said during a press conference at his downtown Fresno law office.
Fatal shooting by Fresno police
Police said on the day of the shooting they were attempting to stop Corchado, who had an outstanding bench warrant for failing to appear in court and for evading police.
As Corchado was heading west on Herndon Avenue near Ingram Avenue, one of the officers used a maneuver with his vehicle to disable Corchado’s 2009 Chevrolet Malibu.
The Malibu came to rest on the center median and what happened next is in dispute. Police said Corchado fired a gun at officers, striking one officer in this bullet-proof vest. Also struck multiple times was one of the police cars.
Police also reported finding freshly spent casings inside the car and finding two firearms in or near the car.
According to the lawsuit, Corchado got out of the car with his hands raised high when Hammond ordered him to get on the ground.
Hammond is alleged to have fired five rounds into Corchado’s back and head. A photo contained in the lawsuit shows the wounds to Corchado’s body.
Lawyer says shooting ‘illegal’
Little has criticized the police “narrative” that Corchado was a dangerous man and their use of what he called a “heavily edited and curated” video showing the shooting.
He looked at a video of the same event taken by a citizen and synchronized it with the police video. The video taken by the citizen shows Corchado with his back to officers when the shooting starts. The police video does not, Little said.
“That makes it clearly an illegal shooting,” he said.
Little said Corchado did not represent an immediate threat to officers or anyone else with his back turned and his hands up.
Little is seeking financial damages to be determined at trial.
“I want to leave it in the hands of regular people, the jury, not police officers to determine if this shooting was justified,” Little said.
The Power to Initiate Violence is Evil: Benicia Cops Allow Police Dog to Tear Open White Man’s Neck and Throat Even though He Surrendered and Was Surrounded by Cops. Suit Filed, No Cops Charged/Fired
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From [HERE] A white man who was attacked and mauled by a Benicia police dog that escaped from the back seat of an officer’s patrol car in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that Benicia officers violated his constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure and used excessive force in detaining him.
The man, 36-year-old Gary Gregory, was not charged with any crime following his detention by the officers, but the dog severed his jugular vein, which required life-saving surgery, and left deep flesh wounds on his arm and shoulder, according to the lawsuit filed last week. The Vallejo Sun released body camera video of the dog attack obtained through a public records request last year.
Prior to the attack on May 17, 2021, Gregory had been walking in the East N Street Trailer Park. According to the lawsuit, Gregory lived there with his girlfriend, but they were going through a difficult break-up. He was subject to a restraining order but wasn’t violating it as his girlfriend had previously left the park.
Police had arrived at 6:28 p.m. and asked Gregory to leave. He was collecting his belongings, and the officers left without incident. But they returned less than 30 minutes later, after multiple people called and reported hearing gunshots. Police later determined there had been no gunfire.
When the officers arrived, they immediately found Gregory near the park entrance, drew their guns on him, and ordered him to raise his hands. One of the officers who arrived was Officer Christopher Francis, who left open his driver’s side door and a hatch that separated the front seat from the back, where he kept his police dog Apollo.
According to the lawsuit, the officers yelled “multiple and confusing mixed instructions to [Gregory], and to each other.” They pinned him to the ground on his stomach. Gregory complied with the officers’ commands but heard the dog barking and expressed that he was afraid of it.
While Gregory was detained on his stomach, Apollo — an 85-pound Malinois — ran through the open partition in Francis’ car, out the front door, and latched onto Gregory’s neck. Francis yelled at the dog to let go, but the dog would not obey his commands. The dog bit Gregory for about 25 seconds before Francis could physically pull the dog off him.
“The forced ‘release’ was not a mere opening of the dog’s jaw,” the lawsuit states. “It was a complete tearing open of [Gregory’s] neck and throat with a gruesome and audible rip as the dog was wrenched away by Officer Francis.”
Blood poured from Gregory’s neck. The officers searched and handcuffed Gregory and secured the dog before providing medical attention.
The city hired Chaplin and Hill Investigative Services — a firm owned and operated by former law enforcement officers — to conduct an investigation. It concluded that Benicia police should change its policies regarding dogs to “protect the public from unintentional contact with the canine.”
It also found that Francis had violated department policy because he “neglected his duty to protect the public,” which “amounts to unsatisfactory work performance.” However, the department did not discipline Francis for the incident.
In fact, in interviews with investigators, Francis said that he had no concern about the dog’s behavior.
“As a handler, I consider this a street fight. He did what he's been trained to do,” Francis said. “I know he's going to do his job if he ever needs to.”
A Dying Latino Man Begged for Help but was Denied Medical Care by Inhumane Authorities in El Paso County Lail, lawsuit filed on behalf of Cristo Canett alleges
/From [HERE] A 48-year-old man died in the El Paso County jail after the facility’s medical staff ignored his deteriorating health and obvious extreme pain for hours, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the man’s sister Monday.
Cristo Canett, 48, died in the jail on April 26, 2022, after he suffered a perforated duodenal ulcer — an ulcer that created a hole in the lining of his small intestine, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Such ulcers allow intestinal fluids to leak into a person’s abdominal cavity, which can cause infection, sepsis and death, the complaint states.
It’s a treatable condition, but jail medical staff refused to give Canett any help beyond mild painkillers even as he moaned in pain, could not walk and complained about nausea and abdominal pain for hours, the complaint alleges. The lawsuit names as defendants the jail’s medical provider, Wellpath, as well as El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal, the El Paso County Board of Commissioners and several individual medical providers.
Canett was the 14th person to die in the jail since Wellpath, a controversial private company, took over inmates’ medical care in 2020, according to the lawsuit, which alleges the deaths show a pattern of negligence and malpractice by Wellpath.
“Mr. Canett’s deterioration and death was utterly predictable given (Wellpaths’) decisions to ignore Mr. Canett’s obvious symptoms of a life-threatening medical condition, their refusal to take a full medical history or timely gather his hospital records, their refusal to seek higher-level evaluation and treatment, and their refusal to send Mr. Canett to the hospital,” the complaint read.
Canett was arrested on April 24, 2022, at the emergency room at Centura-St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs. He’d gone to the emergency room to seek medical attention for rapidly worsening pain in his stomach and back, according to the lawsuit. While there, he got into a dispute with his sister about the use of a shared car, according to the complaint. The sister’s husband called Colorado Springs police.
The officers arrested Canett, telling him there was a warrant out for his arrest because he had failed to return to the halfway house where he lived. But Canett told the officers he had permission not to return on time to the halfway house because he was seeking medical care. The officers then spoke with the halfway house employees, who said they “did not mean to submit an ‘escape’ warrant” because they knew Canett was at the hospital, according to the lawsuit.
A police sergeant nevertheless arrested Canett. She removed him from the emergency room before he saw a doctor.
The sergeant, “a medically untrained layperson, decided to refuse Mr. Canett medical care on the basis of nothing more than her own ill-informed personal opinion that Mr. Canett was seeking drugs,” the lawsuit reads.
Canett was then jailed, where his condition worsened over the next 24 hours. Although he repeatedly sought medical help, Wellpath’s staff did not help him, thoroughly evaluate him, send him for more intensive care or call for an ambulance, according to the lawsuit.
Instead, when Canett stripped naked and moaned on the floor of his cell, struggling to breathe and crying out in pain, Wellpath employees gave the man Tylenol and Ibuprofen, the lawsuit alleges.
Around 1 a.m. on April 26, 2022, a deputy in the jail realized he could no longer hear Canett’s loud moaning and went to check on the man. He found Canett unresponsive on the floor of his cell; staff started CPR but could not revive the man. He was declared dead at 1:41 a.m.
In More than 290 Cases NY State Guards Brutally Beat Prisoners and Lied about It but None Were Fired
/From [HERE] Shattered teeth. Punctured lungs. Broken bones. Over a dozen years, New York State officials have documented the results of attacks by hundreds of prison guards on the people in their custody.
But when the state corrections department has tried to use this evidence to fire guards, it has failed 90 percent of the time, an investigation by The Marshall Project has found.
The review of prison disciplinary records dating to 2010 found more than 290 cases in which the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision tried to fire officers or supervisors it said physically abused prisoners or covered up mistreatment that ranged from group beatings to withholding food. The agency considered these employees a threat to the safety and security of prisons.
Yet officers were ousted in just 28 cases. The state tried to fire one guard for using excessive force in three separate incidents within three years — and failed each time. He remains on the state prisons payroll.
An officer who broke his baton hitting a prisoner 35 times, even after the man was handcuffed, was not fired. Neither were the guards who beat a prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility so badly that he needed 13 staples to close gashes in his scalp. Nor were the officers who battered a mentally ill man, injuring him from face to groin. The man hanged himself the next day.
In dozens of documented cases involving severe injuries of prisoners, including three deaths, the agency did not even try to discipline officers, state records show.
For decades, the workings of the prison discipline system had been hidden from public view under a secrecy law adopted at the urging of the state’s powerful law enforcement unions. But after the Legislature repealed that law in 2020, The Marshall Project obtained more than 5,600 records of disciplinary cases against prison employees, for issues ranging from physical abuse of prisoners to sleeping on the job.
The records probably reflect only a fraction of the violence guards have inflicted in New York’s corrections system, experts said. Many prisoners do not file complaints because they fear retaliation or not being believed. And in most of the state’s 44 prisons, officers do not wear body cameras, which sometimes help prove abuse. These records do not detail prisoner attacks on officers, which the department and the guards’ union said have increased in recent years.
A key reason the prison system finds it so hard to get rid of guards is the contract the state signed in 1972 with the union. The agreement requires any effort to fire an officer to go through binding arbitration, using an outside arbitrator hired by the union and the state — a system the union has successfully kept in subsequent contracts. Only a court can overturn arbitration decisions. [MORE]
A Real Mass Shooting: A State by State Analysis Reveals Black People are Killed by Police at Higher Rates than Any Other Group in 45 States. In What States Are You Most Likely to be Killed by Cops?
/From [HERE] On average more than 1,000 people are fatally shot by police each year, according to data collected by the Washington Post.
In 2022, the number of people shot and killed by police—1,096—reached a record high, as confidence in police reached a 30-year low. Fewer than half of all Americans reported having confidence in the police, according to a Gallup poll, the lowest level since 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Put another way, the majority of Americans have little or no confidence in law enforcement.
Stacker cited data from the Washington Post’s fatal police shootings database to look at the rate of fatal police shootings across every state and Washington D.C. in the U.S. since 2015. Rates are calculated using 2020 Census population data. If no demographic has at least five incidents, rates by demographic are not included.
The data presents troubling trends indicative of systemic issues throughout the institution of law enforcement nationwide. Despite representing just 12% of the U.S. population, Black people are killed by police at higher rates than any other racial group in 45 states. In four out of the remaining five states, police shot and killed Native Americans at the highest rate. Only in New Hampshire did white people represent the largest share of people killed by police.
One out of every five victims identified by the Washington Post had a history of mental illness or was experiencing mental distress when they were shot.
One of the most troubling trends is a lack of institutional accountability. As fatal police shootings have increased, fewer of these incidents are reported to the federal government. The Washington Post found that only one-third of the fatal police shootings included in its database were also present among FBI data.
While all agencies are asked to report these incidents, compliance to report homicides through the Uniform Crime Reporting System—including officer-involved shootings—is mandatory only for federal law enforcement. Negligence, clerical errors, miscommunication, and willful noncompliance are just some of the reasons for discrepancies.
Each state is ranked [here]
Video Shows Sacramento Cops Fail to Protect a Black Business from Ongoing Burglary- Too Busy Surveilling Law Abiding Blacks [cops have no legal duty to provide public service to any particular person]
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From [HERE] In a glaring example of the woeful incompetence of the government’s monopoly on violence, a Black family-owned clothing boutique in North Sacramento was left to the mercy of brazen thieves last Wednesday. The damning evidence of the police department's failure was all captured in detail on the store's multiple surveillance cameras, showcasing the grim reality of a society in which those entrusted to protect are instead conspicuous by their absence.
Universal Clothing Boutique, the life's work of Contreina and Frederick Adams, found itself the target of two audacious thieves. The culprits nonchalantly shattered the front window with a cart before embarking on a casual spree of theft, making off with an estimated $30,000 worth of merchandise. The couple is now reeling from the sheer audacity of the act and is in shock over the extent of the damage as well as the failure of the security force they are compelled by law to fund.
Seemingly predicting the lack of police response, the suspects returned to the scene just two hours later, this time brandishing a gun and threatening Contreina. The crime took on a painfully personal dimension for the couple, according to KCRA, who have been pillars of their community, often offering free meals and clothing to local families in need.
"It's just unfair," Frederick said, his words echoing the frustration of countless others who have found themselves let down by a system that seems incapable of providing protection when it matters most.
Their surveillance footage, intended as a security measure, instead served as a testament to the disheartening indifference of the Sacramento Police Department. It clearly showed two separate police vehicles driving past the ongoing burglary, oblivious or uncaring to the criminal activity unfolding in front of them.
"I kind of felt defenseless," Contreina admitted. "You're hoping you can jump through the camera or alert them."
The couple's faith in the police department is understandably shaken. Police did eventually arrive at the store, but only a full ten minutes after the burglary. This incident is yet another glaring example of the systemic inadequacies of law enforcement, highlighting the disturbing reality: when seconds matter, police are just minutes away.
IF THERE IS NO LEGAL DUTY TO PROTECT US, WHY SHOULD WE BE OBLIGATED TO OBEY POLICE??
On a daily basis (through various forms of indoctrination in The Spectacle) we are made to believe that police are primarily engaged in actual police work and are aggressive crime fighters sacrificing themselves to act on behalf of people. Such conduct is perceived as the fulfillment of the government’s legal obligation to all citizens pursuant to the social contract, a hypothesized agreement whereby citizens voluntarily agree to obey government authority in exchange for police protection and other services from the government.
Yet, in reality, crime data demonstrates that police don’t protect Black and Latino people and are not really involved in ‘police work’ in our communities. Rather, authorities use the perception and reality of crime to stalk, surveil, manage, control and kill Black and Latino people. Any beneficial “public service” provided by cops is random, incidental or done only under the most egregious or convenient circumstances and even then, it is done primarily to maintain manufactured public relations and provided on a compulsory, involuntary basis. Professor Alex Vitale states, “It is largely a liberal fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys. He further states, ‘the police have never really been about public safety or crime control.’ As the veteran police scholar David Bayley argues,
“The police do not prevent crime. This is one of the best kept secrets of modern life. Experts know it, the police know it, but the public does not know it. Yet the police pretend that they are society’s best defense against crime and continually argue that if they are given more resources, especially personnel, they will be able to protect communities against crime. This is a myth.”
Police in Sacramento and elsewhere don’t primarily protect or serve Black or Latino people. In reality, police exist primarily to manage the behavior of Blacks & Latinos within a free-range prison controlled by the belief in Government authority. Their goal is to place Blacks and Latinos in greater confinement. Any protection or help from police to Blacks or Latinos is random or incidental. As FUNKTIONARY states, "people who are awake see cops as mercenary guards that remind us daily through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State - colonized, surveilled and patrolled by the desensitized and lobotomized drones of the colonizers."
Despite said practical reality it is an undisputed legal truth that police have no legal duty to protect any victim from violence from other private parties, unless the victim was in governmental custody. [MORE] and [MORE]. The Supreme Court has explained that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen. Among other things, this means for instance that police departments and their officers have no legal duty to protect any particular person and police cannot be sued for any failure to protect citizens under the Constitution or any federal statute. Unless a state negligence law exists allowing such a lawsuit, victims cannot hold police liable for a failure to protect them from harm from crimes. Courts throughout the nation have upheld and expanded on what is known as the “public duty doctrine.” Said “well established” rule from the Supreme Court that has been expanded upon by courts nationwide is known as the “public duty doctrine.” The DC Court of Appeals explained,
“the District of Columbia appears to follow the well established rule that official police personnel and the government employing them are not generally liable to victims of criminal acts for failure to provide adequate police protection.
This uniformly accepted rule rests upon the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.
A publicly maintained police force constitutes a basic governmental service provided to benefit the community at large by promoting public peace, safety and good order. The extent and quality of police protection afforded to the community necessarily depends upon the availability of public resources and upon legislative or administrative determinations concerning allocation of those resources. Riss v. City of New York, supra. The public, through its representative officials, recruits, trains, maintains and disciplines its police force and determines the manner in which personnel are deployed. At any given time, publicly furnished police protection may accrue to the personal benefit of individual citizens, but at all times the needs and interests of the community at large predominate. Private resources and needs have little direct effect upon the nature of police services provided to the public. Accordingly, courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.”
Most recently in the so-called Parkland “mass shooting” a lawsuit alleging a failure to protect children was dismissed without controversy. A federal court ruled that students were not in “custody” and dismissed all claims concerning a failure to protect by police while children were allegedly killed and injured.
Both the failure of police to provide protection services to Blacks and Latinos and the public duty doctrine are simply more proof the social contract between government and citizens is bullshit. Specifically, the theory is that there is a “social contract” between people and the government in which the government protects the people and enforces the laws, in exchange for citizens’ obedience and taxes. That is, people have agreed to obey the government and do so voluntarily in exchange for government services. Mutual obligations, a promise for a promise, are a necessary element of all contracts. Where persons mistakenly believe they have a contract and one party fails to fulfill an obligation, the other is necessarily excused from performing her obligation. A contract places both parties under an obligation to each other, and one party’s rejection of his contractual obligation releases the other party from her obligation.
With regard to the social contract undeceiver Michael Huemer states,
‘individuals are supposed to be obligated to obey the laws promulgated by the state. Sometimes citizens violate those laws, in which case the state’s agents will punish the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. Given the wide and indefinite range of laws that might be created by the state and the range of punishments to which one might be subjected for violating them, an individual’s concessions to the state under the social contract are quite large. The state, in turn, is supposed to assume an obligation to the citizen, to enforce the citizen’s rights, including protecting the citizen from criminals and hostile foreign governments.’
Citizens are contractually obliged to obey all laws and commands and when they fail to do so the government punishes the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. However, pursuant to the public duty doctrine, authorities are bound to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it and to whom they choose, but no one in particular. Dr. Blynd asks “Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it?”
Why does any of this matter? [MORE]
The Supreme Court Rules IRS agents Have Nearly Unbounded Power to Secretly Obtain People's Bank Records If They Owe Taxes
/From [HERE] and [HERE] Republicans have made political hay out of President Biden’s plan to supersize the IRS, and here’s another bumper crop: The Supreme Court held this week that revenue agents who are chasing a debt have almost unbounded power to secretly obtain bank records on people in a delinquent taxpayer’s orbit, even his lawyers. Reversing this is up to Congress.
The feds say Remo Polselli owes $2 million. In searching for his assets, the IRS demanded that Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America turn over records on his wife and a law firm where he was a longtime client. The agency notified neither Mrs. Polselli nor the law firm, which means they legally had no right to object. The law says no notice is required for IRS summonses “in aid of the collection” of an assessment “against the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued.”
A conservative appellate judge argued in a dissent that what the law really means in context is that the IRS can secretly get records for accounts in which the delinquent taxpayer has a “legal interest.” Under this reading, Mr. Polselli would get no notice or opportunity to quash a summons on his bank, but the law firm certainly would. Alas, that approach convinced none of the Justices.
“This argument does not give a fair reading to the phrase ‘in aid of the collection,’” Chief Justice John Roberts writes for a unanimous court in Polselli v. IRS. Even if the summonses “did not reveal bank accounts in which Mr. Polselli has a legal interest, they could lead to assets parked elsewhere.” Yet the Justices acknowledge the privacy concerns.
“We do not dismiss any apprehension about the scope of the IRS’s authority to issue summonses,” the Chief writes. “Tax investigations often involve the pursuit of sensitive records. In this case, for instance, the IRS sought information from law firms concerning client accounts.” Then what is the limiting principle? “The Government proposes a test turning on reasonableness,” he writes. But the Court leaves that question for another day.
How exactly are innocent citizens supposed to challenge the “reasonableness” of a summons they don’t know exists? Mrs. Polselli and the law firm found out that the IRS was seeking their information only because the banks told them. This puts businesses in the position of having to choose whether to squeal and anger the IRS or keep quiet and alienate clients.
The Supreme Court has said what the bad law is, and Congress should add this to its agenda on the IRS. Mr. Polselli ought to pay his taxes. Still, agents shouldn’t get to Hoover up blameless people’s bank records with no real judicial review, on the mere suspicion that Mr. Polselli wrote a check to somebody in his Rolodex. [MORE]
Elite GOP Racists Reward SNigger Daniel Cameron for Failing to Charge Any Cops who Murdered Breonna Taylor and for Treating Black Lives and Issues Frivolously. Will Face Racist Suspect in KY Gov Race
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Electoral politics has been a complete failure for Blacks. Electing ROLEBOTIC Black PROXYMORONS AND GRIMACING RACIST SUSPECTS for decades at all levels of government has had zero effect on Black people’s powerless status. FUNKTIONARY explains,
Electoral politics - a polylogue of agreed-upon illusions and false (deflectionary) issues. (See: Politicking & Pathocracy)
A “BONE-US” FOR BLACKS OR SNIGGER DANIEL? With Attorney General Daniel Cameron becoming the first African American nominee for governor by a major political party in the Commonwealth, how will it affect the black electorant come November?
Will he bring more sleeping toms to the Republican side, or will there be a divide in Kentucky’s African American votary? [MORE] Or will Deez Nutz run again and pull an upset?? Big questions to answer on the plantation but no one ever asks, why have any master?
Daniel Cameron is the first Republican elected to the office since 1944 and is the first African-American Attorney General of Kentucky. He is a so-called Black conservative who was endorsed and heavily promoted by racists Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. In fact, Mitch McConnell “hand-picked” his former staffer Cameron to run for Attorney General to strengthen his own political empire before his own re-election in 2020.
Prior to Cameron’s election as AG in 2019 he had never tried a case of any kind, never represented an actual client in a court case and had no courtroom experience. He also never argued a legal brief before either the appellate court or the Supreme Court — at the state level or federal level. Cameron’s only experience was working as general counsel for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for 2 years, working as a law clerk and working for a law firm that focused on lobbying - positions that have no meaningful relevance to prosecutorial trial and appellate work. [MORE] and [MORE].
After being sworn in on December 17, 2019, one of the first major things the newly elected AG did was call for halting abortions in Kentucky during the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it was an elective medical procedure that should fall under the statewide ban for the duration of the pandemic. [MORE] Cameron said he has not personally experienced the kind of racism the demonstrators are marching against. [MORE]
On May 13th Attorney General Daniel Cameron was named as a Special Prosecutor in the investigation into the death of Louisville EMT Breonna Taylor. The Republican was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear, a white democrat, after calls for investigations grew in Kentucky and nationwide. \
Cameron failed to bring charges against officers who killed Taylor while she slept in her Louisville apartment – where they fired 32 shots -- on March 13, 2020. Her death sparked national outrage and protests.
It should go without saying but this coin-operated BOHICAN is also not qualified to be governor. Although he couldn’t run a toll both, he can and will do whatever elite racists tell him to do.
As explained by Martin Luther King Jr., ‘elite racists often appoint unqualified negros into positions of authority so that matters of great importance to Blacks will be handled frivolously.’
In consideration of all the above the operative question here is; for what reason did governor Beshear, a racist suspect democrat, appoint this opporTomist to prosecute the Breonna Taylor case?
