Michael Cain

Associate Lecturer in Criminology | Ph.D. focused on police accountability, reform cycles and misconduct/corruption.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

For context, key reports have identified this as an issue in multiple Australian jurisdictions, and if you sample cases of police-perpetrated domestic, family and sexual violence across Australia, unauthorised/unlawful access of police databases is a common theme.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

A notably common occurrence in policing everywhere, it seems.

A lot more attention needs to be placed on the fact police routinely engage in stalking behaviour, harassment and weaponising their position of power to pursue relationships with vulnerable women.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

A police chief in Canada is calling out officers who allegedly used law enforcement databases to look up attractive women they saw leaving coffee shops and gyms.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

New piece in @ConversationEDU today! NSW Police responded to the Four Corner's program last week by committing to mandatory BWC policies, rather than directly address allegations of cultural issues and unaccountability. I argue BWCs are a welcome step, but not nearly enough.

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

NSW police will make body-worn cameras mandatory after recent controversies. But it may not solve the issues they face. @DrMCain @Deakin https://t.co/Jdoyo66pow

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Kelly Wilkinson was being abused by her husband.

She tried to go to the police.

They told her to “cool off”.

To give her husband a “break”.

They accused her of cop shopping.

Her husband stabbed her over 20 times and set her on fire.

The cops were complicit in her murder:

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

Textbook case for why law enforcement around the world cannot be trusted to investigate or handle their own alleged misconduct.

Time and time again: they WILL lie about incidents, they WILL use cover charges to intimidate victims, they WILL defend it regardless of context.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WATCH THIS.

Newly released body cam shows Border Patrol agents deliberately steering into Marimar Martinez — an American teacher — before shooting her 5 times.

DHS falsely claimed she “ambushed” them.

Kash Patel amplified the lie.
Prosecutors later dropped the case.

Texts show agents celebrated: “Good shooting.”

This was a cover-up.

[The Longford Slasher @Longfordslasher]

Incontrovertible evidence of the police hemming in protesters, preventing them from leaving(kettling) and attacking them.

They started this from before the speeches had even ended. The police commissioner is proud of this. He needs to resign with Minns.

[The Longford Slasher @Longfordslasher]

This is an important video. Police blocked both south and north exits of George street, they also lined up at the back of town hall where they blocked exits. Then they started pepper spraying + charging with horses and riot police. There was no way for a large crowd to disperse.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

The footage spreading on Reddit, that will eventually make its way here, of NSW Police aggressively charging a crowd of peaceful protestors and escalating use of OC spray and force is chilling. A complete violation of human rights.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

RT @RandaAFattah: NSW police brutally attack Muslims praying at the massive protest against Israeli war criminals Herzog, Almagog in Sydney…

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

Powerful evidence out of the Centre Against Racial Profiling. By mapping crime rates and race demographics against VicPol's use of Designated Area powers, they found VicPol is not targeting areas based on prevalence of crime, but how racialised they are.

https://t.co/HQOcM6aphW

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

The tweet I've shared spells out that this case is cut and dry - there is no legal justification for the ICE agent's actions. It still doesn't matter. Millions of people are going to defend murder at the hands of law enforcement, as long as they carry out their fascist agenda.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

If you ever wonder why advancing accountability for the brutality of law enforcement is so difficult, look no further than the American conservative response to this.

They are defending the so-called 'right' of LEOs to murder citizens if they don't comply with unlawful orders.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

It's hard not to be angry, sad and scared with how this fascist rise of conservatism is progressing. You have the President of the U.S. openly lying, saying the ICE agent was hospitalised. They're defending the fact they blocked medical care. They're mocking the deceased victim!

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

This is a great way to assure learning while resisting AI, but it's not really feasible at scale on a few fronts: resourcing limitations, accessibility challenges, etc.

For example, how can I logistically administer in-person oral exams for a cohort of 950 students?

[Kosta Derpanis (back home, Toronto ❤️) @CSProfKGD]

Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

Queensland Police are still defending the victim-blaming comments made in the wake of Rowan Baxter burning Hannah Clarke and her children alive in February of 2020.

STORY HERE: https://t.co/sJhEbJbHDO

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

We're already 3 years removed from Deborah Richards handing down her final report on QPS responses to domestic/family violence. It was scathing - individual and systemic failures, rampant misogyny, etc.

Inquiries into policing continue to be ignored.
https://t.co/95xjkmXdDI

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

The integration of AI into policing needs to be immediately resisted and prevented.

Alongside predictive place-based and person-based algorithms, it is a gateway to amplifying discriminatory and unjust policing. Except you can't hold a program accountable like you can a person.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Armed officers held a student at gunpoint after an AI gun detection system mistakenly flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm

"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuff me"

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

@SoulEater923 @EndymionYT And to add to the claim that 'everything [he] said in that post came true', Atsu is literally not a samurai. She routinely corrects people on it and has a clear disdain for them. He was so prophetic apparently, but wrong about the fundamental character trait of the protag!

[Michael Cain @DrMCain]

@SynthPotato @TheNCSmaster This was my favourite response. Tries to act like 'leftists' are incapable of discourse by pretending not to understand the point, but when faced with necessary context, they just say 'hell yeah!'.

They want to be misogynists, but get upset when they're labelled one.