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Thanks Carlos, I appreciate the kind words, but I think the problem was more of a misread on my part really.

I was so focused on the end result, which was getting police misconduct statistics, that I sort of forgot that maybe the effort of getting those statistics, by collecting all the stories of police misconduct in one place, was more valuable to everyone that what I planned to do with that work.

Well, the overwhelming response told me that I wasn’t seeing where the interest was, so I’m grateful that people took the time to tell me that, in so many words at least. Even though it makes me feel a bit foolish for being blind to where the interest was.

In the end, all that matters is that the issue of police misconduct gets noticed, that information about it is available to people, and that it gains acknowledgment as an issue that affects everyone which needs to be addressed.

So, even if the statistics aren’t what people are interested in, but the underlying stories which combine to make them, then I shouldn’t complain so long as one of the two accomplish the goal.

So, I guess I’ll keep at it so long as someone out there is reading some part of it and finding it useful… even if what they find useful isn’t what I thought they would.

Thanks again, I appreciate it.

Note to Packratt: I’d expect interest in the feed to grow over time. Give it another year, as opposed to another month. That’s not very long. Additionally, it’s possible that somebody is eventually going to attack you, either in the mainstream media or through legal means. That’s likely to boost interest.

Is it possible that you’re putting too much weight on responses? I’m referring to a statement you’ve made on your site. It must be irritating to receive “absolutely zero feedback” at the site level. However, people are likely to see the feed as a self-contained resource. They may appreciate the feed, and they may even come to rely on it, but they’re not necessarily going to realize that there’s a home page or that the person who’s running the feed might like to hear that it’s making a difference.

Mr. Miller links to you, and of course the feed links to you. If you’d like to see more responses, perhaps both links could be modified to suggest that you’d be interested in readers’ thoughts and suggestions.

I get the feed through this page. Maybe that doesn’t register as hits? Isn’t this through Twitter? I really have no interest in signing up for that myself. I think you are providing a valuable service and hope that you continue to do so.

VOR, you probably have a point, definitely things to consider… though, as long as someone like Carlos is using the feed, I really should be worried about how many people are reading it directly. That was a point I sort of missed in being disappointing in the numbers I was seeing, missed the trees for the forest I guess.

Rob, I use Twitter to record the stories as I find out about them because it’s a really fast and easy way to record them. Later, when I have time, I pull those from the Twitter feed into a spreadsheet and then analyze that data to post stats on the website.

If there was an easy way to record that info without Twitter, I would have done so, but it’s far fewer clicks and my days tend to be pretty busy… Thanks for letting me know why you don’t find it appealing though, that’s useful to me!

One thing that may need mentioning is that the news feed is using scripting to populate. Many people surfing with firefox have scripting disabled using no-script due to the many known (slow loads, popup crud, security issues) and potential security problems. I do try to read the site, but don’t always remember until you’ve posted it here due to the fact the feed doesn’t populate in my browser.

Just something to note…I appreciate the news from both sites. Thanks for all your work!

Note to Packratt: Thanks for your response.

1. I’ll add that other sites may embed the feed in the future, and it’s conceivable that this is happening already.

2. If you’d like to track readers who access the feed via third-party sites, there’s at least two ways that you could do this. For technical reasons I don’t recommend these approaches. I doubt that you’d find the results worth the effort involved. Additionally, people might raise legitimate objections of various types. However, I’ll describe the approaches in question so that you can decide for yourself.

a. If you add a web bug to the feed, loads of the feed itself should show up in your own logs.

b. If you use a redirector, any access to any of the stories on the feed should show up in your own logs.

Quite a few people, myself included, disapprove of web bugs and redirectors. Some people block or bypass features of this type using tools such as Adblock Plus and Greasemonkey. Adblock Plus takes out web bugs and I’ve written my own Greasemonkey script to deal with redirectors. However, many sites rely on these features despite the fact that they miss some users.

3. You asked Rob Molecule what it was that he disliked about Twitter. I’ll make a guess about the matter, as he may not see your question and respond. Mr. Molecule may be under the impression that people need to sign up for a Twitter account before they can subscribe to feeds such as yours.

I don’t know much about Twitter, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. The feed in question appears to work just like any other feed. No Twitter account is required.

Thanks for the info Kragar, I am thinking about simplifying the site and making it more readable, so that’s useful input!

VOR, thanks for the extra feedback, I’m not really that interested in seeing who is using the different feeds or the info from the site itself, as long as there are people using it and finding it helpful, then I’m happy… no attribution or tracking required.

Thanks again!

3. You asked Rob Molecule what it was that he disliked about Twitter. I’ll make a guess about the matter, as he may not see your question and respond. Mr. Molecule may be under the impression that people need to sign up for a Twitter account before they can subscribe to feeds such as yours.

I did not know that. I might not mind signing up for select feeds. But the intended use does not interest me. I don’t care what my friends are up to at every moment, and do not think what I am doing at any moment is anyone’s business. That’s basically what turns me off to Twitter. I’m lately becoming a bit paranoid about privacy on the internet.

Think about all of the progress environmentalists have made in the past decade. How did they do this? Education; they got the word out. Not long ago those who cared about the environment were viewed as left wing, spacey tree huggers. The only recycler I knew in the 80′s fit this stereotype to a T. Because the environment was a fringe issue few cared about, the smog got so bad in Los Angeles people had trouble breathing. Now everybody recycles; it’s the norm. Many Americans buy energy efficient lightbulbs not because they care about the environment, but because doing so saves THEM {money}. We can draw some parallels to the issue of police abuse. We have to get the word out about just HOW BAD things are and MAKE people care BEFORE it happens to them. Police abuse is not just a social cause; it’s going to effect you sooner or later, like it or not. It is to YOUR benefit to care. Furthermore we need to de-stigmatize the issue. Injustice and CM are two of a few sites without a strong underlying political message, this is key. So everybody do your part and educate others on this issue! Let’s make a goal to get at least 500 people reading Injustice on Twitter. What do you say?

Note to Rob Molecule: You don’t need to sign up with Twitter to read Packratt’s feed. However, I agree with you regarding Twitter per se. Time is important to me, and I honestly don’t understand why one person would waste their time documenting minute details such as their meals, or why another person would waste their time reading about the first person’s meals.

That said, I gather that Twitter is useful for people who’d like a simple way to set up an RSS feed.

Already there are pages and pages of police abuse links and Injustice has only been tracking this for less then 2 months. It is unbelievable. Imagine after a year how many pages there will be! Hey now there’s a photo idea for some of you photographers out there. A years worth of these pages taped together….I wonder how many miles that will cover? It would make an interesting photo; each page representing numerous lives damaged by those paid to protect and serve. Might get picked up by a major media outlet.

I want the people of Washington to know what happened to my wife and myself on Aug. 21 2009 at around 9:00 p.m. I will preface it with the fact that I am a Medical Marijauna Patient. It was a friday night and we had just picked up some Mexican take-out and had settled in for the evening to watch a movie and relax, thats when 12 to 15 “stormtroopers” Seattle Police Department Officers in full battle gear with automatic rifles blasted into my house and basically took the two of us hostage in our own home. They proceeded for the next 2 hours to destroy our home from top to bottom… I mean from the attic to the crawl space under my house. All the while leaving us handcuffed in our kitchen under armed guards. I freely admitted that I was a Medica Marijuana Patient and had all of my documentation to prove that fact on my person and in my garden. That was of no concern to the “Sgt” who even though we had not violated any laws continued to yell at us that we were bad people who sold pot to school kids and were going to prison. First let me say that I have not ever and do not ever intend to sell, trade or give my medicine to anyone. I am a 41 year old man that is just trying to deal with my physical health issues and Cannabis has been a godsend for me. Okay, that being said… As “Seattles Finest”(lol pun intended) destroyed my home , stoled 90% of my equipment and 95% of the medication that I, as Washington law says I can, cultivated they found my digital camera. On my digital camera were some comprimising pictures of my wife and I. Well the “Sgt” running this dog and pony carnival act thought it would be funny I guess to call his men back and show them our personal private pictures and make lewd sexually harrasing comments and jokes that I could hear and they all laughed heartely about. Don’t get me wrong I do understand the “Search and Seizure law” it is fairly ambiguose and leaves alot of room for interpretation. What it does not allow for is Gestapo tactics and sexuall misconduct. It also does not include home invasion robbery by the police department. If the governing state has adopted a “Medical Marijuana Law” and voted that law into affect then the entire state needs to make sure that the police they send to do the dirty work are EDUCATED in the law in up to the minute real time. Not last months law not 6 months ago or not last year. Also I believe that they should also be aware of the “suspect” they are dealing with. Is the “suspect” a bad guy, or is the “suspect” a patient? furthermore the “Officers” that are chosen for these tasks should be screened for their TACT in handeling situations of this nature. Neither myself nor my wife were arrested as we had not violated any law or any part of the law. Unfortunately for my wife and I tact was not even a consideration and they completely turned our lives upside down. The story doesn’t end there… After the home invasion robbery by the “SPD” the detective assigned to investigate sent an intimidating letter to my landlord advising him that we had been convicted of drug crimes in his rental home and if he did not evict us they were going to put an injunction on his house due to “drug trafficking” and seize it for 2 years in doing so he would not be allowed to enter the property for that period of time. So basically they lied and forced my wife myself and my service dog to living homeless in our vehicle. Truthfully all they had to do was ask me and I would have gladly shown them anything they wanted to see without disrupting our lives or embarassing and humilliating us. We were trying to remain anonomys and not bring any undo attention to my medical condition or the homeopathic medicine that the state of Washington has deemed legal. Now six months later here we sit with no resolution in an apartment (finally) with no furniture and barely getting by. My wife had lost her job over all of this and has just went back to work recently but it is very hard for us now. I am completely disabled due to my physical condition but I have started the process towards a law suit against the Seattle Police Department, King county and the State of Washington. I am the process now of talking to attorneys and would love to talk to anyone that might be able to help… Thank you for listening and trust me there is alot more to come. Carpe Diem as it is ours to have!!

WA state cops are some of the worst scum walking the planet. What other department had one of the most notorious serial killers in the world as a police advisor? You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

Ted Bundy: The Seattle Police Advisor

http://blog.operation-nation.com/2009/08/30/ted-bundy-the-seattle-police...

Apparently when they’re not cavorting with serial killers or harassing medical mj patients, the Seattle cops are beating up woman. Another BS contempt of cop beating and arrest.

Brittany Beaulieu says her April 2006 encounter with officer Aaron Parker “changed (her) life.” “People I trusted were the people that hurt me, and hurt me a lot,” said Beaulieu. She underwent surgery for a fractured cheekbone after officer Parker kicked her legs out from under her, slamming her face-first into the ground. Parker said her injury was the result of him “being unable to control the subjects fall to the pavement”. However, the officer spoke to Beaulieu briefly at the hospital, saying only: “If you had apologized, none of this would have happened.” The injured woman said a jailer who saw her face that night said: “This is really unacceptable.” Six months after she was assaulted, witnesses said officer Aaron Parker then kicked a suspect in the face as the man was trying to surrender. Once again he was given retraining. The Seattle Police Department hasn’t disciplined any officers for unnecessary force in the past 18 months, during a time when it ruled on at least 161 force cases. The department takes disciplinary action in about 1 percent of cases where a complaint of unnecessary force is made. It sustains other allegations about 10 percent of the time, records show.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/349469_force31.html

and people are supposed to give a shit when they get shot.. I don’t. (see Brenton, Tim Oct. 31st, 2009)