I requested records from State Secretary Giannoulias office about the plate watch program. I asked for the data collected for the program (number of calls to the hotline, emails), copies of emails sent, and communications with local and state police about plate swapping. It was denied.

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2w ago

At an ICE abduction in Chicago today, a Dodge with an obscured back plate was observed on scene. Rapid responders often report ICE using cars with obscured plates. IL State Sec. Alexi Giannoulias announced a "plate watch hotline" last year, but it's unclear if that's impacted agents' behavior.

Friends are telling me that they are re-occupying Willy St right now. This comes after police forcibly removed the protest encampment earlier today set-up at the intersection where a police officer murdered Corey Ruiz.

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 17h ago

a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”

"police who protect the pubic" is a contradicition.

Breaking: A federal judge held the DHS in contempt for allegedly slow-rolling an order to create digital copies of communications from any personal and government cell phones used by immigration agents during operations in the Los Angeles area last year. cal.news/3S9Ai06 📸 Carlin Stiehl

What a beaut

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live · 19h ago

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

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Guy who owns a huge chunk of media, when facing anti-monopoly legal challenges to capture more of it: I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told.

Year to date, zero records produced! It’s for records about the department’s social media surveillance reports. They’ve given them to me before in a fairly timely manner, but they need more time to continue “supervisor review.”

Here's a screenshot from a police VR training simulator, V-Armed, that shows a situation where police interact with an unhoused man. The LAPD is currently using the technology in their training. Scenarios include interactions with unhoused people and protests.

I wish I had that kind of money.

Nora Loreto@nolore.bsky.social · 2d ago

Taylor lorenz pays $300 per month for AI tools lmao

I think about all the random people who have photos of Lemmy on their phones. The most recent were two LA firefighters who sat down after ordering a coffee and Lemmy bullied them into petting him.

The blockng system here is weird, too opaque, what was it about?

I first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.

A journalist saying they pay $300 a month on AI tools and the complaining about the economic impacts of losing subscribers is a choice. I don’t know a single journalist who could afford $300 a month on anything related to their job.

PSA: If you're pushing a policy in 2026 that involves more police and more people in jail, at least be prepared to explain why. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to assume your concern isn't really solving for safer streets.

Andrew Thrasher@tituslegaldesign.com · 3d ago

I'm curious if there's any evidence that jailing more drivers would improve pedestrian/bicyclist safety? My concern is how much this argument aligns with pumping more money into policing + jailing, rather than investing in more sustainable infrastructure changes.

When politicians say they oppose ICE but propose more local police, their objections to ICE are based solely on optics/aesthetics.

Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Alexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

The first and likely last time an Oasis song is played as a wrestler’s entrance music. #SummerSlam

Total insanity in Spokane with the #oldtrailsfire Heartwrenching photos from Tyler Tjomsland and great reporting below from my former colleagues at The Spokesman Review. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

you VERBATIM said he'd be alive if he had didn't have a gun. textbook victim blaming. killers don't need a reason to kill people, they've killed armed and unarmed people you're fundamentally wrong and you're unwilling to admit it

Mike Fahey@mikefahey218.bsky.social · 4d ago

3 facts. 1. Alex Pretti committed no crime and shouldn’t have even been confronted by agents. 2. He had the constitutional right to carry a gun. 3. He would be alive if he didn’t have a gun on him.

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

"How dare you make us look bad!"

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

I hate that a building reclaimed by the community and covered in art is something to clean up. RIP graffiti towers.

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 5d ago

Cleanup has begun, and this is the first step toward turning Oceanwide Plaza into the housing, jobs, retail, and economic opportunity it was always meant to deliver. We’re unlocking Downtown L.A.’s full potential.

Bail amounts vary widely between rural and urban counties. This is pretty much true in every state I've seen -- someone gets held on a huge bond for something that would be a ticket one county over. oklahomawatch.org/2026/07/30/t...

The Price of Freedom: Oklahoma Bail Schedules Vary Widely, Penalizing the Poorest - Oklahoma Watch

Oklahoma's pretrial bail amounts vary wildly by county, with a DUI carrying a scheduled bail of $250 in one county and $50,000 in another. There is no statewide standard for non-traffic offenses, leav...

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A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found recent increases in wildfire smoke air pollution could be contributing to negative outcomes for pregnant women and babies. From @statesnewsroom.com

Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found recent increases in wildfire smoke air pollution could be contributing to negative outcomes for pregnant women and babies.

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In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.

Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town

Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.

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Wait, so playing the NYT’s games is transphobic now?

Bought one to replace my mouse and it’s made my workflow going through public records and PDF’s infinitely easier.

Corel Gallery Clipart@clipart.bsky.social · 2w ago

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This story has been updated with new information about a third-country removal in progress.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d ago

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented