Carlos Miller
Packratt over at Injustice Everywhere has been going through some difficult financial times as many people are during this economic crisis and was forced to shut down his Police Misconduct newsfeed.
But considering it is the only such feed that documents these instances so extensively, I called him last night to see what we could do to not only keep the feed alive but his blog alive as well.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, it is the continuously updated feed in the left sidebar of this blog under “National Police Misconduct News.”
We decided that it would be best to seek out a handful of volunteers to submit links to the feed. All it would take is to search the internet daily at various times for stories of police misconduct and submit them to the feed.
So if you’re interested, click here for more details.
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7 responses so far ↓
1 scott // Jul 14, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Maybe you could ask for regional volunteers so people are searching for news that is most relevant to them. Carlos, for instance, could take on Florida misconduct while someone else scours for Arizona and someone else looks for Delaware etc…
2 Jay // Jul 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Scott #1 is on the right track, but there’s another option which I mentioned in a comment over there. We all agree on a twitter hash (maybe #InjusticeEverywhere or something else) and simply tweet the stories with that hashtag. Voila, we’ve got a feed. I’m willing to help out where ever I can.
3 Packratt // Jul 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM
First, Thanks for putting this up and thanks for trying to think of ways to keep the effort going Carlos, I appreciate it!
Next, Scott & Jay,
If you think a hashtag is the way to go, please go ahead and start it up… I’d imagine there would be no harm in having multiple efforts at the same goal in play at the same time, might be helpful in fact.
The only concern I have with the hash tag approach is that it would be pretty easy for some antithetical cops to come along and start spamming the hashtag with their own entries. Not sure how to deal with that possibility.
Thanks, and let me know if you guys start that up so I can try to set something up to watch it!
4 Michael Wade // Jul 14, 2009 at 4:04 PM
The NAACP is starting a new program to allow people to report police misconduct using their cellphones:
http://www.examiner.com/x-12767-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m7d13-NAACP-will-use-cell-phones-to-battle-police-misconduct
5 Rob Molecule // Jul 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I could submit misconduct stories from Western NY.
6 EdinMiami // Jul 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM
To piggy back off of Packratt:
Given my experience as a moderator over at Ratemycop.com, if police can spam it, they will spam it in an effort to discredit or make it unusable.
7 Michaelk42 // Jul 16, 2009 at 12:39 AM
There has to be some sort of validation process, or as EdinMiami says, it will get spammed constantly. We can’t expect the bad guys to have any decency in this, after all.
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