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At tonight's Berkeley City Council meeting, I urge councilmembers to reject the mayor's wording on Item D (Supp 2) that only restricts police doxing for "First Amendment Events."  

This vague wording will basically do nothing to prevent this deplorable behavior by the police in the future. The police should only be involved in enforcing the law -- not in doling out punishment. Police doxing should be banned in all situations unless there is a direct threat to the public by the release of a violent individual who is charged with a felony -- and this should only apply until the new bail system is in place, because at that point people who are violently dangerous will not be released after arrest. This backpeddling by the mayor, which is clearly designed to once again demonstrate his fealty to the police rather than to protect the public from this abuse of police power, should be met with a resounding NO!