subversivelystitched:

luckyladylily:

ms-demeanor:

kangarooculture:

slothicsupremacy:

ms-demeanor:

ninjakittenarmy:

ms-demeanor:

The headline: UK Drug Dealer Feeling Bleu After Cheese Photo Leads To Arrest

The article: Police cracked encryption on a privacy-focused phone service provider and ran fingerprint analysis on photos posted by users.

Like I get that law enforcement does things like this, that’s literally what it exists for, I’m just really upset by the cutesy framing.

Also. Like. Don’t organize shit online or over the phone. Law enforcement has been pressuring tech companies to put backdoors into encrypted services for years, this whole crackdown happened because of a device-level attack, and you never know who’s listening.

And yeah. If you’re setting up an anonymous ID online for any reason do not, under any circumstances, post or share any identifying information under that ID or with devices associated with that account.

Just don’t break the law.

• The Criminalization of Private Debt.
• The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the US.
• How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter.
  
• No Right to Rest: Police Enforcement Patterns and Quality of Life Consequences of the Criminalization of Homelessness.
• The Criminalization of Poverty.
• The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States.
• From “brute” to “thug:” the demonization and criminalization of unarmed Black male victims in America.
• “Forced into Breaking the Law”The Criminalization of Homelessness in Connecticut.
• American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking.
• The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth.
• Mass criminalization is a root cause of racial inequality within the U.S.
  
• Illegality of Unions.

“Just don’t break the law.”

“just don’t break the law”

So we’re so anti-cop these days we’re literally defending drug dealers?

Surely These Techniques Used By The Brave Lawmen Of My Municipality To Monitor Suspected Criminals (Those Low Knaves Who Would Wound And Injure Society By Their Deeds And Dealings) Will Never Be Used To Target Me, An Upstanding Citizen.

“No one lived a completely blameless life. It might be just possible, by lying very still in a cellar somewhere, to get through a day without committing a crime. But only just. And, even then, you were probably guilty of loitering.”

Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

Plus, back to the drug-concerned pearl clutching: how many middle class/owning class cokeheads get away with, literally anything?

vs.

How many working/underclass [esp non white] people are serving decades of prison time for weed?