NAACP SAYS "NO" TO COUNCILMAN REED'S STOP, QUESTION, AND FRISK PROPOSAL

Post by Maple Heights African American Gazette.

IS MAPLE HEIGHTS PARTICIPATING? IF NOT, WHY NOT?

The following Spotcrime notice was emailed to  the Maple Heights City Council president and Maple Heights law department December 14, 2013.  No response from any of them yet regarding the email that was sent.

 

 

 

Question: Is Maple Heights participating?  If not, why not?   Residents of Maple Heights want to know about crime in their city, and there are free resources available.  The police have asked for what? ..$45,000 for new computers, and some members of city council and the mayor want us to pass a levy that will mean a tax hike.  We need to ask for crime data to be available thru internet companies like Spotcrime.

 

 

 

"FROM SPOTCRIME (12.14.2013):

"When SpotCrime launched in 2007, we were one of the only companies to offer free crime mapping to every agency in US. That same year, the price of crime mapping services averaged between $20,000 to $300,000 per agency.

Just recently, the reportedly largest police vendor crime mapping company, CrimeReports.com, announced they are finally giving away their crime mapping for free to all police agencies.

The only other large scale crime mapping vendor that still requires payment from police departments is CrimeMapping.com. If your agency is paying for public crime mapping, we recommend you ask about the free options.

We think SpotCrime's competitive and innovative approach has made an impact on the cost of public crime mapping for everyone. With over 70 million alerts sent this year alone, we feel we've made an impact in actually getting crime information to the public as well.

Unfortunately, vendor crime mapping companies in the market today still lock up public crime data. They get hired to make the data public and then add restrictions on how the public can use the data. This prevents the public from using and sharing the information, and limits how the press reports on the crime data.

Our hope is that all agencies across the US will continue to embrace the benefits behind opening up crime data. We need your help in stopping this game of 'Public Crime Data Keep Away'.

If your local police agency doesn't have a public feed accessible to everyone without restrictions, reach out and ask them to create one. Let them know there are free resources available to them. If they aren't sure where to start, have them contact us, we'll be happy to help!

Let's all help make public crime data fully public. 

Sincerely,

Colin Drane
Founder
Feedback@SpotCrime.com
619.663.7768

Please check out our mobile friendly website: http://bit.ly/spotcrimem
 

DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW

 

 

"Summary:

Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

 

 

For the purpose of Section 242, acts under "color of law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official's lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.

 

 

The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any."
 
 
 
SEE ALSO: COLOR OF LAW ABUSES

NEWSLETTER: MARCH 7, 2014 NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE

Opening ReMARCs The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees criminal defendants the right to legal counsel. At no point does it state that representing counsel shall be penalized for upholding this basic principle. This certainly was not the case for John Roberts when he defended serial killer John Ferguson, convicted of killing eight people. In fact, Roberts earned Senate confirmation and became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. However, punitive voting is precisely what occurred this week when the Senate rejected, 52-47, the nomination of Debo Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice – a decision based largely on his work as legal counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal when he worked as a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). While Adegbile never represented Abu-Jamal in any of his trials, he worked on legal briefs once the LDF took Abu-Jamal’s appeal based on blatant racial bias in the jury selection and instruction in the trial. In fact, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with LDF’s arguments and overturned Abu-Jamal’s death sentence, giving him life imprisonment without parole. Adegbile is highly-regarded across the legal and civil rights communities. Earlier this year, the National Urban League joined 75 other organizations in a letter of support for his nomination. At that time, we called him “one of the preeminent civil rights litigators of his generation…a consensus builder…[who] has earned respect and admiration from a bipartisan set of colleagues, lawyers, and leaders…because of his principled and measured approach to issues.” We wholly stand by that today. Regardless of how anyone feels about Abu-Jamal, Adegbile upheld the principles and expectations of our justice system and did not deny a defendant the right to competent counsel. The Senate’s actions, on the other hand, are disappointing and disgraceful, and perhaps worst of all, puncture a precedent-setting hole in the very principles of our nation’s Bill of Rights.

To Be Equal “There are some Americans who, in the aggregate, are consistently doing worse in our society -- groups that have had the odds stacked against them in unique ways that require unique solutions…And by almost every measure, the group that is facing some of the most severe challenges in the 21st century in this country are boys and young men of color.” President Barack Obama

President Obama Rallies Help for Young Males of Color with “My Brother’s Keeper” Initiative  Last Thursday at the White House, I was on hand for one of the most inspiring and important Presidential announcements in recent history. In the aftermath of the killings of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, and in response to data showing how badly the odds are stacked against millions of boys and young men of color in the United States, President Obama kicked-off “My Brother’s Keeper,” an unprecedented public-private initiative aimed at improving life outcomes and addressing opportunity gaps for the nation’s most vulnerable population. The President made the announcement before an audience of young males of color and a coalition of government, business, civic and philanthropic leaders. I was proud to be there to represent the National Urban League. In unusually personal terms, President Obama spoke about his own struggles with drugs and alienation as a young boy growing up without a father. He called on all Americans to do more to improve the prospects for young males of color who are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be unemployed or end up in jail than any other group in America.

CONFERENCE

Partner Spotlight TIME Magazine Highlights National Urban League Entrepreneurship and Job Training Programs Read the special feature on the un-and-underemployment crisis in America that ran in the February 24th issue of TIME Magazine highlighting National Urban League entrepreneurship and job training programs.

JOBSEEKERS: How to Get Your Resume to the Top and Avoid the Digital Black Hole Career Success Webinar Wednesday, March 12 12:30pm EST Applying to jobs but can’t quite catch the recruiters attention? Join the Urban League JobsNetwork and Aisha Taylor of TAYLORmade Consulting for tips on how to get your resume to the top of the pile. CLICK HERE to register today!

National Urban League Applauds Extension of Internet Essentials National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Comcast NBCUniversal that it will indefinitely extend its Internet Essentials program: “The National Urban League applauds Comcast NBCUniversal’s announcement that it will indefinitely extend its Internet Essentials program in an effort to improve the socio-economic outlook of communities of color. As a long-time proponent of universal broadband adoption, we recognize the nexus between technology-enabled opportunity and our mission to enable economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. “As we contemplate broadband-enabled solutions that can prove useful in jumpstarting our economy and creating more opportunities for our communities, we look forward to working with Comcast NBCUniversal to help leverage the Internet Essentials program to drive job growth, create more opportunities for minority-owned businesses and improve education outcomes in underserved areas.”   LEARN MORE

Her Path to Success Begins Today Your gift provides the tools for her to overcome economic challenges and realize her dreams.

Knoxville Area Urban League Gets Boost with CDFI Certification The Knoxville Area Urban League (Knoxville, TN), with the City of Knoxville, announced its new community development financial institution (CDFI) certification at its annual membership meeting at the Holiday Inn at World’s Fair Park. “The Urban League has been quite tenacious as we worked with the U.S. Treasury to gain this certification,” said Phyllis Nichols, Knoxville Area Urban League President and CEO. “We’re working to achieve sustainable efforts for economic development. One tenet of our mission is community development and becoming a certified CDFI will allow the Urban League to provide capital to a target market not served by traditional institutions. “We will be able to strengthen our entrepreneurship training through partnerships and provide technical support to startups and expanding small and minority businesses.” VIEW THIS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE CLEVELAND NAACP WILL HOLD PUBLIC FORUM ON USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE

The Criminal Justice Committee of the Cleveland Branch NAACP will be conducting an excessive use of force public forum. When: Thursday September 19th at 5:30 pm Where: CMHA Headquarters 8120 Kinsman Road Cleveland Ohio 44104 The forum is to raise much needed awareness around policing tactics and community relationship building as well as to discuss alleged incidents of excessive use of force by the Cleveland Police Department. (Residents from other cities feel free to attend.) The NAACP has asked the US Justice Department to come and document citizen's accounts as part of an ongoing investigation into the Cleveland Police Department. Moderator will be Harry Boomer

EXPUNGEMENT CLINIC MAY 23, 2013 - REGISTER TO HAVE YOUR RECORDS SEALED

There will be an Expungement Clinic on May 23, 2013. See Attachment.

Participants must pre-register to determine eligibility for sealing records.

Anyone may register at www.statesenatorshirleysmith.com or call (614) 466-4857 by Monday, May 13, 2013.

 

Expungement Clinic May 23

CRIME AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Want to Fight Crime? Address Economic Inequality

ByMark BuchananJan 6, 2013 6:30 PM ET

 

"About noon on Christmas Day in London, I became the victim of a crime. Somebody smashed in the rear window of our family car; nothing serious, fortunately.
 

Nonetheless, it led me to the inevitable questions: Who did it and why? Was this an impersonal act driven purely by cold calculation? Or did the perpetrator harbor malice or resentment?

 

I’ll probably never know. But on the causes of crime more generally, we do know a few things. First, seemingly trivial factors -- the location of street lights, road layouts, housing designs and so on -- often have a decisive influence on whether crime hits one place rather than another. Second, and more important, a sure recipe for more frequent crime is rising socioeconomic inequality.
 

This ought to be especially worrying in the U.S. and U.K., where, over the past two decades, inequality has increased tremendously. "


CONT'D HERE
 

Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan, a theoretical physicist, is the author of "The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You" and two other science books. A former editor of Nature and now a columnist for Nature Physics, Buchanan writes about efforts to use physics concepts to understand dynamics of biology and the social sciences. His forthcoming book "Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics" will be published by Bloomsbury Press in March 2013. He has a doctorate from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's in physics and electrical engineering from Lehigh University. He lives in Notre-Dame-de-Courson, France.

BLOOMBERG NEWS

Sunday, October 16, 2011 Ohio Victims of Crime Will Be Guest Speaker at Maple Heights Library

FREE AND INFORMATIONAL

JOIN IN THE CHANGE

Time:  Sunday, October 16 • 3:00pm - 5:00pm

__________________________________________________________________________________

Location 5225 Library Lane Maple Hts Ohio 44137-1291- off Libby Road
Maple Heights County Library Auditorium room A

... _______________________________________________________________________________

OHIO VICTIMS OF CRIME WILL BE GUEST SPEAKER

This is THE FIRST of many meetings. 

Please accept this invitation and join me with this NEW ORGANIZATION. 

Recently my very own son was attacked and under went 3 surgeries. This crime has lead me to create an organization that will give peace, justice and hope to another family struggling as I did. 

I need all of you to ATTEND THIS MEETING and BRING A FRIEND

Councilwoman Carolyn Gamble
Elect Endorsed Democrat
For City Council President
Maple Heights, Ohio

  216-355-1714

"Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."

Stalking Resource Center

National Center for Victims of Crime