By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, january 18, 2024 at 9:43:00 a.m. est
(decriminalizesexcrimes.com) last updated 6/26/2023
“what are mugshot laws?
“booking photographs are often made public on mugshot websites, law enforcement social media pages, and in news reporting. states around the country have begun adopting laws and policies limiting the public use of mugshots.
“why is it important that mugshots be private?
“federal courts have found [sic] that mugshots are an exception to public disclosure of government information under the freedom of information act (foia) because people have a privacy interest in their booking photographs that outweighs any public interest in seeing those photos. the rationale behind these decisions is that mugshots imply that an arrestee is a criminal even though they are taken before the person’s guilt or innocence are [sic] determined. mugshot privacy laws and policies are becoming more commonplace in light of the growth of the internet, where booking photographs can be published and distributed quickly and remain online forever [sic].”
GRA: My only question is, what percentage of those arrested are convicted or plead guilty to a crime? I remember, not too long ago, in grand rapids, you could see EVERYONE who was arrested the day before—80% black, of course.
--GRA
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jerry pdx
Yes, exactly the reason why so many media outlets, police dept. etc... refuse to release photos or identities. There use to be a local publication here in pdx simply called mugshots and it printed photos along with the names of everybody who was arrested in the city. Eventually, as wokism took more of a grip there was a local outcry about how it was unfairly characterizing people as criminals because being arrested is not the same as being convicted. There was another one thrown out there also, which was that it was "reinforcing" racial stereotypes about black and mex because such a disproportionate number of those arrested came from those two groups. THAT was the real reason they had to stop publishing those photos and names.
The bizarro mind of the ultra pc or woke is on full display with that kind of reasoning because it contradicts itself. If it's a false stereotype that blacks and mex are more likely to be criminals then publishing photos of everybody arrested would be visual evidence that it's not true...right? Of course that was the problem, putting their faces out there simply affirmed that non Whites were far more likely to be criminals, or arrested more often than Whites. They simply couldn't have that so shut it down.
ANOTHER BIZARRE,PRO-CRIME EVENT:
(ZH)It Feels Like Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong" - 5 Swedish Cops Forced To Pay Fine To Convicted Syrian Migrant Who Brutally-Attacked Them
(GRA)I'll summarize:There was a Syrian protest in 2022,where bottles and rocks were thrown at Swedish police.A number of cops were injured,one seriously(it will take years to recover.)
They sued,but because of the way the laws work(don't work) in Sweden,the judge ruled police could not recover individual damages in civil court--only the state could.They were told it was impossible to win the case,so the cops subsequently dropped it,giving the Syrian an automatic victory of counter damages.
The judge said he could rule only this way "because of how the laws are written."
The police scoffed at the idea of paying.
"They can foreclose my house if they want any money from me for this criminal,"one cop said.
When will Syrian or pro-Hamas protests in the U.S. result in injury,leading to similar outcomes here?
--GRA
Something similar as to when they classify a Mexican criminal is a white man they don’t want a true identity known
Those mugshots of Negroes, quite often sure, very surly, an angry person quite often. Do they have those big bowl necks? They do have a tremendous size and robust physique They are superior physical to everybody.
Austin, Texas once had a weekly mug shot tabloid called "Busted in Austin." I knew the guy who first published it before he sold it a couple years later.
Before his tabloid debuted, "Jeff" told me he had a big battle getting Austin's police department to release mug shots, which it eventually did. However, I believe Jeff cooperated in a way. Because Austin was x percent white at the time, it seemed like x percent of the published mug shots were of whites. Because blacks in Austin were y percent, y percent of the photos were of blacks. You get the idea.
Therefore, the issues I saw had plenty of photos of white UT kids who got in trouble for DWI. Not exclusively, but they seemed overly represented. On the other hand, the photos of blacks had folks whose crimes were generally more serious. Homeless people of all races were well-represented, maybe overly so.
I don't recall seeing mugshots of people who had committed crimes worse than assault.
Jeff told me that almost no-one whose mug shot was published was eventually found to be innocent. He eventually sold "Busted in Austin" to people who wanted to take the magazine to the next level. In addition to the weekly hard-copy tabloid, they intended to use online mug shots to coerce money from people who didn't want their photos and crimes made public.
I have no idea where the mug shot industry is today.
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