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Militarisation of policing in America and lessons for Australia: accountability
Posted By Leanne Close on June 24, 2020 @ 06:00
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[1] previous post: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/militarisation-of-policing-in-america-and-lessons-for-australia-trust-and-legitimacy/
[2] tweet: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/looting-starts-shooting-starts.html
[3] shoot-to-kill: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/04/philippines-president-duterte-shoot-to-kill-order-pandemic/
[4] instructed: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/philippines-president-duterte-war-on-drugs-thousands-killed
[5] blamed Antifa: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/trump-uses-antifa-incite-fear/612670/
[6] re-election considerations: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/most-important-number-trumps-re-election-chances/609376/
[7] policing abuses: https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-history/fitzgerald-inquiry
[8] override and constrain freedoms: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/china-and-tibet
[9] politically acceptable agency heads: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
[10] night of the long knives: https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/memo-pm-government-goes-better-with-a-sharp-public-service-20190727-p52bcw.html
[11] professional public service: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp9899/99rp03#_Toc435240495
[12] the department conducted: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/george-floyd-police-doj-investigations-invs/index.html
[13] qualified immunity: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity
[14] Pearson v Callahan: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-751.ZS.html#content
[15] been taken to extremes: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/30/police-george-floyd-qualified-immunity-supreme-court-column/5283349002/
[16] court decided not to hear: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/congress-going-have-repeal-qualified-immunity/613123/
[17] shot and killed: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
[18] had a total of 55 fatal police shootings: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries
[19] 47 fatal police shootings: https://aic.gov.au/publications/sb/sb19
[20] Minneapolis police use force: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/03/us/minneapolis-police-use-of-force.html?utm_source=The+Marshall+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6e4463f7c0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_04_11_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-6e4463f7c0-174622488
[21] demonstrations: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/uk-black-lives-matter-protesters-topple-slave-trader-statue?cid=newsapp:socialshare:email
[22] royal commission: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/
[23] Aboriginal people: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/law/aboriginal-police-relations#Selected_statistics
[24] finalised and ongoing cases: https://aclei.govcms.gov.au/sites/default/files/19468_aclei_-_annual_report_2018-19-accessible.pdf
[25] Peelian principles of modern policing: https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org/peel-policing-principles/