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Call for a database of vicitms of Police violence.

The Prisoner. | 28.08.2011 15:32

Given the numbers of people becoming victims of Police violence, from the beating in the Police station to cold blooded execution, we need to keep records of all the cases that occur. There is no independent database, or details of victims at present.

In view if a rising number of people being subjected to Police violence and execution in the UK, there needs to be a gathering point to collate information on the exact details and numbers involved.

This is a call for a database of those beaten, injured and killed by the fascist militia that is the Police today.

This calls for your thoughts and plans as to how this should be organised and by whom.

The Prisoner.

Comments

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It's obvious . . .

28.08.2011 17:04

Well , of course the database should be built by us in the IPCC as we are completely unbias and not simply up the porcine anus of the porcine boys in blue . It's obvious . Isn't it ?

Independent Police Complaints Commission

Why?

28.08.2011 17:18

I don't ask this in a destructive sense, I'm sure there's good reasons. But I don't believe in a database for a database's sake. There have to be some cast-iron reasons / things we hope to achieve out of this. The ABC prisoner database helps prisoners receive support. The database of black people who died in police custody is enlightening in a shock-factor sense without endangering privacy as the entrants are already dead. A database of living people who've come into conflict with the state sounds like a dangerous idea. What positive would it achieve? Would it be a list of stories? The beginnings of a wider support structure? A base from which to mobilise against police abuse?

blagger

One step further

28.08.2011 18:09

Not only a database - but a "blue plaque" scheme with a plaque to mark the spot - we could start with Blair Peach and Kevin Gately

Ashe

Good Idea

28.08.2011 18:15

The police national computer keeps a record of "arrests" and the police act as though they are convictions. It's a kind of extrajudicial criminal record.

What we really need is activists engaging themselves in "legal" research and court room activism, and not because we can win, but because we can expose the hypocrisy of the state.

anarchist

Do the Shake and Vac and put the Freshness Back

28.08.2011 18:41

Is it not more important to build a database of the 'people' commiting these crimes against the public ? Building a collection of men with a small penis in the police force . That fell for the " Double the size of your penis and join the ranks of the piglett brigade " advert on QVC ? Just like the police made a page asking for the public to squeel on members of the community stealing bottles of water . Maybe we should build a page of ' These coppers deserve a chinese burn ' or ' Tell these coppers they really arn't very nice ' . . . You know something lame and not likely to get you arrested under the police state that is Ingerland

Mr Slightly Angry

Blair Peach plaque + database of police killings

30.08.2011 08:08

I forget the exact dates, but there was a plaque for Blair Peach in Southall, put up around 1985/6, but when the Tories got elected to the local council around 1990 the first thing they did was remove it. Equally the group, originally called Southall Monitoring Group, now just The Monitoring Group, certainly used to keep records of police violence, contact them -

http://www.tmg-uk.org/

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