After the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown inwards Ferguson yesteryear a police delineate officeholder a publish of Ferguson citizens came together to form Hands Up United.
Hands Up United's finish is inwards the short-term to larn jurist for the shooting of Mike Brown and, inwards the long-term, to aid forestall time to come incidents of police delineate brutality. To aid rank this finish Hand Up United has released an interactive map to which anyone tin travel ship reports of police delineate brutality or police delineate misuse of power.
This Google Map from the Cato Institute shows the place of botched SWAT together with paramilitary police delineate raids inwards the United States.
The Cato Institute debate that "the Drug War (has) given rising to a dramatic growth inwards the publish of 'no-knock' or 'quick-knock' raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are oftentimes conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, police delineate sometimes bear SWAT-style raids on the incorrect home, or on the homes of nonviolent, misdemeanor drug users."
The Botched Paramilitary Police Raids map uses colored map markers to exhibit raids that led to the expiry of innocent people, the expiry of a non-violent offender, the expiry or injury of a police delineate officeholder etc. It is possible to refine the information on the map yesteryear state, twelvemonth together with yesteryear outcome.
Home.Land.Security say that at that topographic point are many websites dedicated to mapping criminal offense exactly non many that are mapping where people experience vulnerable because of the police delineate themselves.
Home.Land.Security claim that many individuals "including people of color, queer folks, together with undocumented immigrants" come across a police delineate presence equally itself a threat. They accept thus determined to map police delineate shootings together with targeted arrests for what they telephone telephone "quality of life" crimes inwards San Francisco.
The Home.Land.Security map allows users to persuasion the locations of 'Officer Involved Shootings' together with reported "Quality of Life Crimes". It is likewise possible to charge demographic information onto the map together with to persuasion San Francisco neighborhood boundaries.
