Mark Hiznay

Home This policing law, academic website documents and analyses how domestic legal regimes around the world regulate the use of force by the police and other law enforcement agencies. This police law site is managed by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Pretoria.

📣With the University of Johannesburg, we’re pleased to share the new, updated repository of national laws governing police use of force.
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04.06.2025 08:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Gone skiing & sunrise at Sugarbush. Very happy to be in Warren, Vermont this week.

04.03.2025 03:09 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inherently abusive equipment promoted at UAE arms fair - Omega Research Foundation Last week, Omega uncovered that several companies at IDEX were promoting equipment that we consider to be torture equipment and that the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other ill-treatment has previ...

9/ @omegarf.bsky.social "Omega uncovered that several companies at IDEX were promoting equipment that we consider to be torture equipment and that the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other ill-treatment has previously determined....should be prohibited" omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/inheren...

28.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Senior Pentagon Official: New Plan Is to Invest in "Autonomous Killer Robots" In a shocking admission, a senior defense official is laying bare the Pentagon's priorities when it comes to building killer robots. Speaking to Defense One, which did not print the official's name so...

Wondering how these provocative comments from unnamed US officials will translate into formal statements from the US delegation to next week's #CCWUN meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

24.02.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A hawk visiting on sunny and warm day.

29.01.2025 22:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cats being silly seems about right.

23.01.2025 21:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0