As Steven writes, the Dallas Police Department consumes more than 40% of the general fund budget. Facing $51 million dollar deficit, the rest of the city will be defunded, while the police funding goes up. Defund police or defund your city. Which one do you think is the radical thing to do?

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 8h ago

A budget crunch in Dallas is forcing cuts and layoffs, but the police budget will go up. "Our revenue gains are about as much as our increase for DPD. We live in a police state, a police city," said Councilmember Paula Blackmon My latest for @dmagazine.bsky.social www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

No one in the jail Jesse Crosson landed in had ever taken a college course. Staff had to write a policy so he could receive textbooks. He joins Hunter on his book "The Best Part of Prison" and why second chances keep failing. Now available to Patreon subscribers. linktr.ee/pdefenselesspodcast

Emily Galvin Almanza says 90% of kids stopped by police waive their rights. So she wrote them a mystery novel. In this clip she explains what she teaches kids to say instead. Ep. 513: open.spotify.com/episode/1uJc... emilygalvinalmanza.com

New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Emily Galvin Almanza wrote a mystery novel for fifth graders that teaches how evidence, witnesses and reasonable doubt actually work. She calls it legal first aid for kids. Ep. 513 lands Sept. 8. Patreon subscribers can hear it now. linktr.ee/pdefenselesspodcast

Flock taught cops how to monitor No Kings Protests, you can see it in this video. More here: www.404media.co/flock-taught...

Hunter Parnell asks what policing inherited from military schools. Jasper Craven follows those men out the gate, into the military and into police departments, then asks what they could build instead. open.spotify.com/episode/1p9v...

Hunter Parnell spent four years at the United States Air Force Academy. Jasper Craven's book "God Forgives, Brothers Don't" traces how military schools manufacture American manhood. Hunter asks where that culture lands after graduation, including policing. linktr.ee/hwparnell17

I spent 18 months documenting Rocky’s trial lawyer’s ties to the KKK, even knocking on an old Klanman’s door and letting him touch my body as the price of getting the information I needed. The court dismissed the case today.

Alabama Reflector@alabamareflector.com · 2w ago

Via Ralph Chapoco: A Morgan County judge Friday denied a new trial for a former Alabama death row inmate who cited evidence that his attorney at his first trial had ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

look what happens when police get an unlimited budget. idk, i think those defund people had a point?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

Prosecutors in Illinois acted as valuable assets of federal immigration enforcement, sharing sensitive personal data without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight. (Copublished with @wired.com) www.injusticewatch.org/project/ice-...

The county prosecutors who became ICE informants

Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

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Shadow AI is already in most law offices, and the terms almost always let vendors train on your data. Professor Mason Clark breaks down the defender's duty to use AI wisely. Full conversation: linktr.ee/hwparnell17

Prosecutors already run AI through every stage of a case. Most defenders never hear about it. Professor Mason Clark wrote the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' new paper on the defender's ethical duty to use AI. On Patreon now: linktr.ee/hwparnell17

A man spent more than 10 years in a Louisiana jail waiting for trial, then a jury found him not guilty. Malia Brink on what excessive public defender workload costs the people left waiting. LISTEN NOW: linktr.ee/hwparnell17

On a recent episode of the @legalafmtn.bsky.social podcast, FFJC co-founder and co-executive director Joanna Weiss discussed our most recent report, The Cost We No Longer Pay. 💰Communities have retained at least $37.5 billion across 73 pieces of fine and fee reform legislation.

Malia Brink of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University built a five-step tool that shows an office how many public defenders it needs versus how many it has. NOW AVAILABLE TO PATREON SUBSCRIBERS. linktr.ee/hwparnell17

Colorado Law has a repository for exceptional student scholarship Here are the papers I've submitted (all with hundreds of downloads) First, Hunter Parnell @pdefenselesspod.bsky.social Armed and (Not) Dangerous: How Bruen can Kill the Terry Stop Authors scholar.law.colorado.edu/colorado-law...

“More than 6,000 communities nationwide have contracts with Flock, which records about 20 billion license plate scans each month — roughly 57 scans per American.” san.com/cc/political...

Political foes unite in a common cause: de-Flocking America

In a polarized America, surveillance company Flock Safety has inadvertently turned political foes into frenemies.

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This is a fascinating read. An AI Agent altered a document without a trace. A true secret agent. www.forbes.com/sites/larsda...

‘My AI Did It’ Is The Next Courtroom Excuse—And It Might Actually Work

'It wasn't me. The agent did it.' AI agents can use a computer like a ghost or just like you. A digital forensics expert on proving whether you or the AI touched the file.

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In 1992, man who spoke at 9 Klan rallies and cross burnings appointed to represent Rocky Myers, a Black man accused of killing a white woman in Decatur, Ala. Rocky is still in prison. He didn’t commit the crime. Take a listen to how, why, and what next.

Public Defenseless Podcast@pdefenselesspod.bsky.social · 3w ago

"It is unacceptable for a Black man accused of killing a white woman to be represented by someone whose loyalties lie with the Ku Klux Klan." — Leah Nelson AVAILABLE NOW: open.spotify.com/episode/4DUa...

NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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If you are focused on Flock in your communities, can I interest you in real-time crime centers, video analytics, drones, sensors, or other pattern-matching and tracking technologies. A narrow focus on ALPRs obscures the other equally pervasive and panoptic policing technologies in use.

Chief Defender Keisha Hudson explains what's on the chopping block: DUI cases, drug cases, weekend staffing. This is what happens when a city hands you $0 of the $5 million you asked for. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1nxj...

Philadelphia's chief defender says her office could stop taking new DUI and drug cases immediately. The city gave her $0 of the $5 million she asked for. Full conversation now available to Patreon subscribers: linktr.ee/hwparnell17

"It is unacceptable for a Black man accused of killing a white woman to be represented by someone whose loyalties lie with the Ku Klux Klan." — Leah Nelson AVAILABLE NOW: open.spotify.com/episode/4DUa...

New: the National Park Service is using Flock. Current/former rangers I spoke to are pissed. “I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.” www.404media.co/the-national...

The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

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Robin "Rocky" Myers has spent decades on Alabama's death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Now his legal team says his own trial lawyer had ties to the Ku Klux Klan he never disclosed. NOW AVAILABLE TO PATREON SUBSCRIBERS: linktr.ee/hwparnell17

This is no longer dystopian fiction. The authoritarian surveillance state is real and it is here now.

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal

DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

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I wrote about Flock’s announced “reforms”

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 4w ago

Flock has paired new reforms with a tone shift recognizing the dangers of their technology. But don’t be fooled: their surveillance business model is the problem, and reforms can’t fix that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

75% of wrongly convicted women were convicted of a crime that never happened. Professor Valena Beety joins Hunter to unpack the bias and bad science used against women, pregnant people, and queer people. open.spotify.com/episode/6H9n...