cop - protesters were wealthy “little techie brats” using social media to outsmart cops

[Liberal_in_LA]

NYPD officers traveled to Ferguson, MO during the fallout of the grand jury decision for Michael Brown, the unarmed teen who was fatally shot by a police officer in August, to collect intelligence on “professional agitators” ahead of the Garner decision. Missouri protesters managed to outmaneuver police during protests by using disposable or burner phones and organizing via social media. One NYPD officer complained that the protesters were wealthy “little techie brats” who were using social media to outsmart cops.

“The NYPD encourages cooperation across units to spy on people for attempting to protest,” and any one who may be associated with protesters, Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, told ThinkProgress, mentioning the NYPD helicopters surveying thousands of protesters this week.

Police rely on social media and data collection to help them respond more efficiently to crime, but it can often step over the line. “In Chicago, [there was the] creation of the heat map predicting who would do crime based on who they are and where they live. In New York, their anti-terrorism work has pushed the boundaries of privacy,” Robinson said. “But it’s all in how they use the data. At the end of the day, police need to build trust…And monitoring protests doesn’t do this.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/06/3600158/nypd-social-media-eric-garner-protests/

[daredtowork]

1. LOL!

It's a sad day when people have to "outsmart the cops" in order to organize a protest. Geez louise.

[NYC_SKP]

2. "attempting to protest"? Hey, NYPD: FUCK YOU!!!

I don't miss your sorry police state miserable gentrified stinky ass.

[cwydro]

3. The funny thing is...

You don't have to be that smart to outsmart cops.

I have a good friend who is a cop. Female, white, gay. She is a good cop. I know this.

Very good at her job. Can't imagine dealing with the things she has told me she has to deal with on a daily basis. She's pretty smart on a certain level.

But she's not the sharpest tool in the shed in regard to most of the knowledge those of us on DU take for granted...as something we know and understand.

[ncjustice80]

19. How many fellow cops has she turned in for corruption?

If the number is zero, she is either a liar or a bad cop like the rest.

[TalkingDog]

20. THIS /\ /\ /\ /\

If you know a somebody who has raped or robbed or murdered someone or otherwise committed a crime and you don't turn them in, that's called being an accessory.

If a cop doesn't turn other cops in, it's still called being an accessory.

Good cops are as common as Hen's Teeth.

[RoccoR5955]

4. Welcome to te Police States of America...

...where attempting to protest is considered criminal activity, which the police must monitor.
What's next, thought police?

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!

[Ash_F]

5. Why are our tax dollars being wasted on these cretins? /nt

[bemildred]

7. Belligerent cretins. nt

[Dragonfli]

6. When the cops are all low IQ types (mostly below 100 by design) it doesn't take "techie brats"

to outsmart them, just average citizens that are simply aware of social media.

I wish they would stop recruiting cops from the moron and steroid crowd. Why not hire some smart people not loaded with 'roids that make them into perpetually angry (and still stupid) thugs.

Why is it again they choose to hire the stupidest people they can find? What is the reason to filter out anybody intelligent again?

[notundecided]

8. Police work is dull

High IQ types would be bored. You don't need high intelligence to be a good cop; just being a decent human being is enough.

[Dragonfli]

9. That theory does not appear to be working in practice, obviously.

I have my suspicions that "just being a decent human being" is screened out via psych profiles just as intelligence is screened out via I.Q. tests.

I disagree that stupid people can be good cops, you appear to think so, but cops require good judgement more than most, especially since they are so well armed and empowered to do whatever they want if the fiction in the report says the right things (reports that are never questioned I might add). Stupidity does not make for exceptional judgement in life or death decisions no matter what you may believe.

[notundecided]

12. Stupid no........just average intelligence.

[Dragonfli]

13. I am no genius, nor do I know any personally, but below 100 sounds pretty stupid to me

120 is pretty common and still well below my non-genius status, that or above seems minimal to expect good life or DEATH judgement.

I think we will simply have to agree to disagree, but I do feel the lack of intelligent life or death judgment commonly displayed in nearly every news cycle is both the proof and the blood pudding that supports my view.

[REP]

15. An IQ of 70 is low-normal. 100 is average. 120 is above average; it's a few points shy of MENSA

An IQ of 123 and above is required for MENSA membership; are you suggesting that only those with IQs of 120 be recruited for police work? That's unrealistic; not only are those with those test scores not a large segment of the population from which to recruit, they're smart enough to turn down a crap job with crap pay.

[PowerToThePeople]

18. i believe you are incorrect

132 is required for mensa. 123 just sounded way too low to me, so I had to check on it.

http://www.us.mensa.org/join/testscores/qualifyingscores/

[Bigmack]

10. The only thing I have against the police....

... is that they somehow believe the people they are "protecting".... the oligarchs... are their friends.

If they understood who the real enemy is, they'd be leading the riots.

[PowerToThePeople]

11. fucking pigs

Spying on potential protesters? Where are your god damned warrants? Pigs.

America is a fascist totalitarian state. Its form of government needs to be overthrown.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

[MisterP]

14. oh MY, that sounds like *class-based resentment!* (GOP piles on the "Red Cop Problem")

[Kennah]

16. I was suddenly reminded of this quote from Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

"I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Classification_of_officers

He was addressing military officers, but I think it's topical.

[Hekate]

17. Good for the "little techie brats." They need to be quick-witted in this world....

Mass protests and civil disobedience ultimately need real planning to succeed over the long haul.