Miami police chief suspends program using mug shots at target practice

[LiberalElite]

Source: NY Daily news

He finally bit the bullet.

A Florida police chief suspended a sniper training program widely criticized for using mug shots of African American men for target practice.

North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis said the department is investigating the program after a National Guard soldier discovered her brother's bullet-riddled mugshot at a gun range last month.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/miami-police-suspend-program-mug-shots-targets-article-1.2082233

[niyad]

1. do these cretins think they operate in some sort of sacred vacuum, where none of their actions

can be called into question? are they really so damned tone-deaf that they haven't got a clue about how their behaviour and actions look to those on the outside?

[asjr]

6. None of the police have been indicted for killing

African-Americans. It seems to me until we do hold them accountable nothing will change. It just keeps happening. Until we amass a group of one or two million people to stop this nothing will change. I sometimes think I will be in the ground before this happens. I've stopped posting here because I feel impotent that I can't do anything. Unfortunately I am having difficulty making my legs work. I can't get out and march. I do so admire those that can.

[Iggo]

2. "...suspends..."

"The North Miami Beach Police Department recognizes how, taken out of context, it may appear to be offensive," Dennis said in a statement Friday night.

Fuck you, copper.

[fbc]

3. Why is North Miami Beach PD training snipers anyway?!

I'd like to see a list of incidents that required snipers in North Miami Beach.

It probably looks something like this:

[jtuck004]

4. Suspends. Ok. Perhaps gently calling into question the judgement of using military tactics on

a civilian population might be in order? Something done to teach people to shoot others without emotion. Handy in war. Perhaps necessary here, but we need to make sure this isn't thought of as war, eh?

This conversation is much larger than just the dehumanizing of people via a paper objectification. These are armed people practicing militant disrespect for the people they are supposed to serve, and I would lay dollars to, uh, doughnuts that this target instance is just one manifestation.

[rocktivity]

5. The least they could do is use mug shots of CURRENT fugitives.

That way they can practice and learn who to be looking for at the same time.


rocktivity

[Chakab]

7. I remember some DUer lecturing against "making patterns out of random behavior" in one of the recent

police threads.

I have to ask. If there is evidence that this shit is going on day in and day out in police departments all over the country, when do these acts cease to be random noise and become incontrovertible proof of institutional discrimination?

[El Shaman]

8. What happens when

you don't have Officer Friendly around.

[Gothmog]

9. Good

This was a stupid idea

[Cha]

10. It was just a fluke that this was discovered by a NG whose brother was a target.. this is

disgusting. I would hope to holy hell it's being "suspended".. that's mighty ***** of them.