NYPD Publicly Shame Homeless, Ordered to Take Photos and Post Online

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New York, NY — NYPD police have recently been showing how compassionate they are by taking photos of homeless people and publicly shaming them online. The activity is not only condoned by the department, but it is being sanctioned and encouraged by high-ranking officials at the NYPD.

The ironically named “Sergeants Benevolent Association” sent out an email this week, ordering both police officers and their families to take photos of homeless people in embarrassing situations so they can later be posted publicly.

“As you travel about the city of New York, please utilize your smartphones to photograph the homeless lying in our streets, aggressive panhandlers, people urinating in public or engaging in open-air drug activity, and quality-of-life offenses of every type,” SBA President Ed Mullins said in the email.

The letter went on to criticize the fact that police are being filmed more and more recently and suggested that it is now time to turn the cameras back on the public.

“Shouldn’t accountability go both ways? We, the ‘Good Guys,’ are sworn to protect our citizens. Shouldn’t our public officials be held to the same standard?” the email read.

According to the email, the photos are intended to motivate politicians to “do something about the homeless problem,” but what they actually want to be done is unclear. Do they want laws that outright ban homelessness? Or just more power, in general, to use against the population?

The email cites examples of public urination and drug use, but these are activities that police are already arresting people for, so it seems that they may be pushing for more strict and specific laws against homelessness.

The letter railed against “failed policies, more homeless encampments on city streets, a 10 percent increase in homicides, and the diminishing of our hard-earned and well-deserved public perception of the safest large city in America…. Attempts to pass self-promoting agendas are not the answer to building relationships with communities who don’t trust the police. It only serves to lie to people who are trying to live life and share in a piece of the American Dream.”

One of the “failed policies” that Mullins was critical of was the recently proposed “Right to Know Act,” which would require cops to get permission from a suspect before conducting a search without probable cause for arrest.

Sadly, this sick NYPD homework assignment was even praised by the NYPost, who also seemed to have no compassion for the homeless population of New York City.

The police are now collecting all of the photos in a public Flikr album.

Below are some of the photos uploaded to their album. After looking through their photos, the only one deserving to be publicly shamed in this situation, is the NYPD.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/nypd-ordered-publicly-shame-homeless-posting-photos-online/#jqzx6e3xffoXhH4x.99
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Having been homeless in the past myself i can say that thank goodness a lot of them im sure could care less.
 
I wonder if there's anyone with a conscience left in the NYPD. It seems like every time they look like they've found a new low and can't get any lower as human beings, they do something even more appalling than before.
 
I think it is most likely that there is conscious intent to recruit individuals who fit the psychopathic profile. In the UK there was a scientist working for the Home Office in the 1980s who suggested recruiting psychopaths specifically for the purpose of controlling the masses "in the event of a nuclear disaster". So it would not surprise me if this was already the case in the US as well.

Maintaining law and order would become increasingly difficult as police would be busy helping victims of the radiation fallout.

These predictions led Jane Hogg, a scientific officer in the Home Office, to suggest the police could recruit another group of people to help restore order – psychopaths.

She wrote: “It is... generally accepted that around one per cent of the population are psychopaths.

”These are the people who could be expected to show no psychological effects in the communities which have suffered the severest losses.“

Ms Hogg suggested psychopaths would be "very good in crises" because "they have no feelings for others, nor moral code, and tend to be very intelligent and logical".
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Here is the full article : _http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-government-considered-recruiting-psychopaths-to-keep-order-after-nuclear-attack-9832910.html
 
Those pictures should shame the society that allows such conditions to exist.
 
And who is going to tell the homeless people they're being shamed? I work with homeless people and I think this flickr project is ridiculous.

A better use for those photos might be to put them side by side with photos of high-living politicians smiling, joking, making toasts, driving their fancy cars and generally living the good life while others have nothing.
 
Laura said:
Those pictures should shame the society that allows such conditions to exist.
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Yes, and wouldn't it be interesting if the project backfired, globally. As in, this is how a society that is busy spreading 'freedom and democracy' worldwide treats its own people. :thdown:
 
aleana said:
Laura said:
Those pictures should shame the society that allows such conditions to exist.
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Yes, and wouldn't it be interesting if the project backfired, globally. As in, this is how a society that is busy spreading 'freedom and democracy' worldwide treats its own people. :thdown:
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Yeah. Maybe members ought to collect images of homeless in US, results of US intervention abroad, and rich US elites and put them all side by side in an article for sott.
 
Laura said:
aleana said:
Laura said:
Those pictures should shame the society that allows such conditions to exist.
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Yes, and wouldn't it be interesting if the project backfired, globally. As in, this is how a society that is busy spreading 'freedom and democracy' worldwide treats its own people. :thdown:
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Yeah. Maybe members ought to collect images of homeless in US, results of US intervention abroad, and rich US elites and put them all side by side in an article for sott.
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Great idea.
 
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