Questions tagged [police]
Questions related to the civil force of a state, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.
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Does support for the Palestinian cause statistically correlate with support for abolishing or defunding the police?
While walking around Québec City I keep seeing clusters of stickers that appear to come from the same source—one says “Free Palestine,” another “Abolish the Police.”
This makes me wonder whether ...
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Why is it so hard to take back control of Haiti's capital from gangs?
Reportedly, gangs still control 80% of Haiti's capital, despite the internationally supported police effort, etc., which has been going on for a year, as I recall.
Why is this mission apparently so ...
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How might a police state be a 'good thing'
This question probably comes from a different place to some questions on here. I am currently playing a character who genuinely supports a police state (in the classic 1984 style) and I am trying to ...
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Has any country managed to enforce VPN fines (or other punishments related to VPN use) to a signficant degree?
Reportedly Twitter/X has been subject to a "complete suspension" in Brazil, following a Supreme Court order there. But the part I want to ask about is this:
People attempting to access the ...
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Why are Israeli activists/vigilantes who are blocking aid from reaching Gaza not being stopped by police?
According to the BBC, Israeli activists/vigilantes (as worded in the article) are attacking aid lorries, questioning and attacking unrelated road users, clashing with pro-aid activists, and operating ...
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What percentage of people in each nation have ever been incarcerated or are currently incarcerated?
Statistics of the number of people currently incarcerated (in prison, jail, brigs, confinement, detention, etc.) per nation are readily available for many nations. This is commonly referred to as a ...
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Why isn't the German police allowed to use PimEyes (social network tracking via face recognition)?
I read about the capture of Daniela Klette, via Google Translate:
In Germany, the criminal police claimed that they were not authorized to use this type of AI [PimEyes], due to data protection ...
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What makes it so difficult for Mexico to deal with the paramilitary criminal cartels in the country?
I've just stumped upon this video on Reddit which shows Jalisco New Generation Cartel fighters.
They look like a private army. They openly wear uniforms with insignia and have numerous armored ...
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Why is swatting a thing only in North America?
Swatting, or the act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police response team to another person's address in the hope that harm comes to them by police violence. This is relatively ...
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Are there [other] examples of Chinese police directly arresting opposition figures abroad?
According to Safeguard Defenders (NGO):
Last month [May 2023], Chinese police descended on the home of historian and activist Lhamjab Borjigin and arrested him. Such arrests are commonplace in the ...
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What was this crackdown about in Moscow, Russia?
You Won't Believe Who's Funding Quran Burning Stunts
In the above YouTube video at 03:49, some Russian heavily armed Russian policemen are seen raiding a mosque in Moscow. They are rounding up the ...
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How and why has the UK been arresting anti-monarchy protestors?
The UK police have been arresting protesters for being anti-monarchy in public.
What I want to know is:
HOW: Can the UK justify these arrests within their own laws? Have they tried to?
WHY: Has there ...
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How does the logic work for no prosecution exceptions to the right to not self incriminate in the presence of different jurisdictions?
In many democratic countries there is some sort of a right for an accused to not have to answer police questions to prevent people being forced to incriminate themselves. In the USA this is in the ...
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What are famous studies that ended up deeply changing how the police operate?
In the book “Talking to Strangers” Malcolm Gladwell talks about how novel scientific approaches to policing ended up finding out that stop and frisk of motor vehicles could drastically reduce crime, ...
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How does France compare to other countries with respect to police brutality?
Recently France has seen some massive protests against Macron’s pension law. Most of these protests are peaceful, but unavoidably there was some violence, especially since Macron decided to bypass ...
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