follow-up to this post By Justine Hunter Published on Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 6:40PM EDT More than two decades after women started disappearing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the police handling...and competing priorities. source: The Globe and Mail more: The Province: "Families relieved at news of Pickton inquiry" | UBCIC: "Full Public Inquiry Must Be Inclusive and Detailed"
...warning for harassment, assault and sexual violence] Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana's juvenile justice system at 12 years of age, she presented herself as a boy and used male pronouns. Today, she's 18 and was just recently released from the system. Being closeted about her gender identity was never...
... The government announced the two new judges as Suraya Ramli, 31, in the Federal Territory of Putrajaya court and Rafidah Abdul Razak, 39, in Kuala Lumpur. "The appointments were made to enhance justice in cases involving families and women's rights and to meet current needs," said Prime Minister Najib Razak. The government has also allocated RM15m ($4.7m, £3m) to the Family Support Division...
As reports of untested rape kits across the U.S. just keep on rolling in, Illinois has passed a law mandating that every rape kit be tested. Facing criticism that physical evidence from sexual assault...to the state crime laboratory within 10 business days. The evidence must be tested within six months “if sufficient staffing and resources are available,” according to the law. More at The Curvature
...National Forest called the directive an "unfortunate use of words." The statistics are equally telling. Consider Crises of the Anti-Drug Effort, 1999, a report by Chad Thevenot of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a group that monitors abuses of the American legal system. Thevenot writes: "76 percent of the motorists stopped along a 50-mile stretch of I-95 by Maryland's Special Traffic...
... says Ducker. "They recognize the difficulty many of us see in our daily lives and the problems we have on the streets ... This is giving hope to a lot of people on the street, because someone in the justice system is paying attention to them, not in a completely negative way. "What is really important for us as police officers is there's still accountability in the system. When there's just no prospect...
...reminder of the day-to-day realities of marijuana prohibition and the large-scale racist enforcement at its core," said Stephen Gutwillig, California director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Racial justice demands ending this policy disaster and replacing it with a sensible regulatory system that redirects law enforcement to matters of genuine public safety. Proposition 19 is California's exit strategy...
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Tuesday, June 29, 2010 [Trigger warning for sexual assault and homophobia.] Shaker GimliGirl sent me the link to the below video (for which I've also provided a transcript...- Alternative Media Centre, Independent Journalist from Darren Puscas on Vimeo . The rest of the post and the transcript over at Shakesville More video testimonies of police violence here
Marie Celeste Arraras is a lady. She is a lady that some of you–including, shamefully, your humble correspondent who really needs to expand her horizons once again–may not have heard about. But if you...interesting is that in the online version, they left out the transcript of the call. Which makes for some…what’s that word we use? Interesting? Infuriating? Depressingly typical? more at the source
Trigger warning for sexual assault In the U.K., a traffic police officer was just sentenced to time in jail for repeatedly contacting women he had pulled over for traffic offenses and harassing and... ... Read the rest at the source. . I have a huge amount of hatred for institutionalized abuse of power being framed as "just some bad people," so this really spoke to me. These things are not rare
