Muff the Police

Critical news, history, science & law on police, military, and gov use of sound technologies & listening techniques. ++ RTs for Abolish/Defund/Disarm & Justice.

[chris cross big apple sauce 🍎🗽🍕🥯 @notchrisvolpe]

For $155m we could have paid for 56 MILLION people to ride the subway under fair fares.

Instead we paid $155m in overtime for cops who do not live in NYC nor pay taxes, to arrest 1,900 people for fare evasion.

[katie smith @probablyreadit]

LRAD backpack spotted

[Elizabeth Goitein @LizaGoitein]

RED ALERT: Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is schedule for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act. 1/11

[daphne carr 📌 @idorapark]

For everyone out there in the streets now (and always): here's some resources from your friendly street medics on dealing with chemical weapons, sound weapons, and how to do aftercare https://t.co/dwmmnjb9S9

[Ash J @AshAgony]

NYPD hates when you or I use encrypted messaging apps. But NYPD will soon encrypt all of their radios, preventing media from listening to their transmissions, which have been public for years. Six precincts in Brooklyn have already encrypted their radios. https://t.co/zQ0Kt7Ax1m

[Muff the Police @PoliceSound]

@GardaAramis LRAD is an amplification system often used in crowd control and naval comms, not a radar system. Will LRAD be on site?

[Ash J @AshAgony]

Protesters marched in Harlem last nite for the #BlackWomensMarch. NYPD cops on foot, on scooters, & in NYPD vehicles followed the march from the start. It didn't take long before NYPD began threatening arrests via PSAs played on the LRAD.

[Muff the Police @PoliceSound]

Are there good examples of print/pdf re-entry guides that are created by queer and/or abolitionist groups? As in, not created by the state or a big non-profit? Would love to see!

[Connor Bell, JD, MPH @ConnorBellJDMPH]

Philadelphians know how to reduce gun violence: tackle poverty and inequity. Increasing police funding is the least popular option (and empirically most stupid solution). Are you paying attention @DerekGreenPHL @PeopleforParker @TeamDomb?

[daphne carr 📌 @idorapark]

Friends - please kick a few $ to our Ohio fam down at #StopCopCity week of action supporting Forest Defenders in Atlanta. https://t.co/nNNvOpb7Ru

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

Happening now: Climate activists with @XR_NYC, @nychange, @sunrisemvmtnyc, and others shut down Park Ave on the first day of #OccupyParkAve.

NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, which isn’t supposed to have anything to do with protests, is using the LRAD and mass arresting.

[S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @STOPSpyingNY]

S.T.O.P.'s Fall Research Internship is an amazing opportunity to sharpen your writing/research skills and join the fight against police surveillance. Learn more and apply today:  https://t.co/pUOchKQXy1

[Cop Crisis @copcrisis]

The Orange County Sheriff's Dept is using social media to show off their LRAD device, calling it "essentially a special speaker" used to "to initiate communication with a subject at safe distances". It's also a sonic weapon capable of causing pain, nause… https://t.co/2lA7bMzp1v

[Muff the Police @PoliceSound]

More Havana syndrome cases https://t.co/PZnfkQZcjT

[Muff the Police @PoliceSound]

Abu Zubaydah was subject to extensive torture, including the use of loud and repetitive sound.

[Mark Fallon @glynco]

Lithuania pays Guantánamo ‘forever prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah €100,000 over CIA #torture

Tomorrow marks the 20th Anniversary of the #Guantanamo Bay prison - home of the 39 remaining detainees - part of the gulag archipelago of black sites and dark prisons.

https://t.co/luqJDWH1GH

[@jeffcmays.bsky.social @JeffCMays]

.@NYCMayor says the goal is to have “omnipresence” of police in the subways because “people feel as if the system is not safe.”

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

LOS ANGELES CRIME WAVE UPDATE

LAPD shot two people this weekend and LASD shot another. The articles we get about the shootings are just press releases printed by the cops. You have to wonder why media gives so much coverage to the sensationalized “rise in crime”

[Clevelanders Against Federal Police #FedsOut @ClevelandersAFP]

Today we honor the life of Tamia Chappman and join her family in East Cleveland at 4pm to demand federal investigation into her death and comprehensive reform to end reckless police chases #StopTheChase