Copwatch (REMIX) ft./ PoP & the gentry

As we all know, copwatch is simply the modern incarnation of watching cops abuse marginalized populations (and bourgeois white activists) -- a movement towards police accountability. This concept was created, I believe, by militant groups such as the Black Panthers and Brown Berets in the nineteen-sixties as they monitored police harassment of their communities (check wikipedia if you don't believe me).

Petworth blogger, Prince of Petworth, has recently clamored that the police are not harassing denizens enough.

Thoughts on my Walk Home From the Metro

Have you seen the cop car that has been parked outside the metro for a while around 6 o’clock on New Hampshire Ave. (By the by, the car was gone by 7:15 tonight.) I guess it is in response to the recent criminal activity. So, my concern is that the cops are just sitting in the car. They are certainly visible. But wouldn’t it be better if the car was parked there but they got out of the car and walked up and down New Hampshire. They two cops sitting in the car looked bored out of their minds. As I imagine I would be too. Is the car parked outside the metro in and of itself enough of a deterrent to hinder crime up and down New Hampshire Ave.? I feel like people complained and the powers that be said “alright, park a car outside the metro.” Do you think this is simply pandering? Does it make you feel safer?

So. [watch this super long convoluted, redundant academ-babble]:
As some use the internet to document abusive cops, what is perceived as police inaction inspires online dialogue among others in which a certain belief system manifests -- one that assumes infallibility in the praxis of police authority vis-a-vis a movement predicated on an intrinsic mistrust of this state-vested authority. Stop snitchin'