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Playtech Teams up with Betano/Stoiximan to Launch New Live Cashback Blackjack – GamblingNews.com
Posted: June 6, 2020 at 5:54 pm
A new live casino product will be the result of collaboration between the Greek Betano/Stoiximan and Playtech.
Developer of iGaming products Playtech has recently teamed up with the Greek operator Betano/Stoiximan. Under the partnership, a new exclusive product will be launched on the gaming market deemed as industry-first. The new product is a variant of Live Blackjack called Live Cashback Blackjack. Started as a random number generator (RNG) game, the new Live Cashback Blackjack features an eight-deck game which is opened to limitless number of players.
The intriguing bit about the game is that players can cash out during any action round. Choosing to cash out instead of taking action will award the players with cashback amount determined by the round itself. The new unique game actually adds up to the ever growing portfolio of Playtech Live. The new version is actually the fifth variant of Blackjack predeceased by Unlimited Blackjack, Quantum Blackjack, All bets Blackjack and Majority Rules Speed Blackjack.
But what can players expect from Live Cashback Blackjack? At the game start, players wager a main bet and side bets. There is a total of six different side bets. Those are: 21+3, Buster Blackjack, Dealer Pair, Lucky Lucky, Player Pair and Top 3. The action rounds on the other hand hold five choices for the players: Cashback, Hit, Stand, Double or Split. By choosing Split during an action round, the player receives cashback for both hands. If the player chooses Double, no cashback is offered. The cashback rewards are calculated based on the cards which are on the table and may vary depending on each action round. The cashback is only applicable for the main bet, while side bets get paid out separately.
Playtech Live CEO, Edo Haitin commented on the partnership by saying:
The development of Cashback Blackjack Live has been a truly collaborative effort, and takes our partnership with Stoiximan/Betano to a new level. Stoiximan/Betano is already one of the leading operators in the Greek market, and were committed to working closely with them to not only build on this position, but also extend that success into further territories.
Haitin continued by saying that the new product is the result of collaboration of the development teams on both sides. According to him, the new product is dynamic and will give the players much joy and personalized gaming experience. Haitin further noted that the company is excited to see players reactions when interacting with a live casino that also offers cashback.
Stoiximan/Betano Live Casino Manager, Christos Mavridis commented by saying: Product innovation, wide game offer and an optimum customer experience have always been among our priorities at Stoiximan/Betano. He continued by saying that the customers response towards Cashback Blackjack has already been fantastic. Mavridis said that the company is looking forward towards delivering entirely new player experience with the first Live version of the game. He further noted that Playtech actually has quite a record when it comes to innovation and revolutionary approaches for new gaming content. In conclusion, Mavridis said that Playtech was the perfect partner for the developing of the new Cashback Blackjack Live.
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The Best Live Blackjack Games to Play with Friends to Beat Lockdown Boredom – Nerdcore Movement
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In these unprecedented times, many people are searching for fun activities to do whilst locked down in their own homes and most of these involve the internet! However, if youre bored of making Tik Toks, or hosting pub quizzes for friends and family over Zoom, then why not head over to an online casino and sit around a virtual, yet live, table, and enjoy casino Blackjack at home! If that sounds like something you and your mates would be interested in whether youre novices or local brick-and-mortar regulars read on to find out about the best live Blackjack games around!
Live Quantum Blackjack
In Quantum Blackjack, the games classic rules apply, except theres a few modernised twists! In this game which is brought to you by the ever-popular gaming developers Playtech Quantum Multipliers can boost your winning when you beat the dealer with a hand containing one or more Quantum Multiplier cards.
A total of three multiplier cards which can multiply your initial wager by 3x, 5x and 10x can be in play on the table in each round. These apply only to the main bet and not to side bets, and, to make things even better, these are of no advantage to the dealer whatsoever! As soon as youve placed your bets for the up-and-coming round, up to three multiplier cards are chosen at random from the deck of digital cards. If your hand was to beat the dealers, and you have one (or more) of the multiplier cards, then your winnings are ramped up by the multiplier displayed. However, when this happens your initial bet will not be returned.
You can still, of course, place side bets in this eight-decked game and theres a vast range of bets for you to place, including pair-based bonuses focusing on identical cards, colours and numbers. The popular 21+3 side bet is also at your peril.
An unlimited number of players can play this game at once. So, grab as many of your mates as possible and try to beat the dealer, whilst hopefully enhancing your bankroll!
Live All Bets Blackjack
The classic rules apply in this Blackjack game get your cards to reach the value of 21 (or as close to as possible). You can split your hand, double down and even take insurance, if the dealers up-facing card is an Ace. However, the difference is Live All Bets Blackjack is jam-packed with several side bets five to be specific, as detailed below:
Similarly to Quantum Roulette, an unlimited amount of players can join in the fun with this game!
Of course, there are standard Blackjack tables online that you and your mates can gather around, however, make sure theres enough free seats!
So, what are you waiting for? Gather up your pals and get playing!
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The Reopening Of Vegas Has Me Craving 4AM Strawberry Milkshakes At The Blackjack Table – BroBible
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Vegas is back, baby. And not a moment too soon. Or, too soon, depending on whether youre into science and stuff.
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Gamblers flocked to casinos in Las Vegas Thursday as the city reopened for the first time since the Strip went dark amid the coronavirus crisis in March.
Its just been months of us trying to get here, Bobbi Carlisle of Phoenix,told USA Today. Now were here, and were so excited. Were hoping to get a keno machine, and well play there for days.
Bobbi Carlisle has been trying to get to Vegas for MONTHS. So excited! So excited for that keno machine, gonna play keno for days. Thats all she wanted (Im assuming its a she, since Bobbi not Bobby?)slots, cigs, and the comfort of letting that plumbers crack run so deep you could shoot the Chilean miners movie down there. I hear you, Bobbi. We all hear you.
The one group chat I give a shit about on my phone has been pinging like crazy with the gambling news. Theyre all degenerates, and my favorite people in the world to gamble with. Its so much more about the camaraderie and the songs we sing at the table. Big hand for the table will have us breaking out in a chorus of thats my daughter, in the waaaater at the top of our lungs, which makes no sense but feels so right. This, of course, at 4AM, when youve become a full-fledged smoker because when in Rome
Im a strawberry milkshake guy at that hour. They bring them in the little glasses with a dollop of whipped cream on top. Sure, there might be some cig ash sprinkled on the cloud of cream from the 10-mile journey the waitress took from the bar to your table, but it only adds to the flavor. Nothing like a little carcinogenic grit to help you split fours against a five.
PAINT HIM! PAINT THE MAN!
Im getting chills. You never root for your friends more than at the blackjack table. And you never hate them more than when they all come out winners and you lose big. But in my experience, were typically all losers or mostly winners together. All depends on the dealer I guess. Gotta throw him/her a tithe for karma.
Ive heard of these underground blackjack tables in New York City, but Im too afraid to hit those. Doesnt seem like the sort of place where you can scream FUCK YOUUUUU at the top of your lungs to the dealer. And while Im thrilled that Vegas is open again, I dont think Ill be in the first wave of visitors. Look at that clip on twitter. Thats not a winning environment, Im sorry.
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DARPA has made a hint on regards to launching Blackjack satellites come to the end of the year 2020 – StartupNG
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Several payloads are anticipated to hover around the lower region of the earths orbit when the year is coming to an end as well as the onset of next year respectively, and this will be carried out by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, this has come about when the agency is planning to launch its satellite as an experiment of the Blackjack program
The Blackjack program was initiated back twenty-eighteen by DARPAS Tactical Technology Office, which was displaying the soldierly efficacy of the earths lower orbit sets and mesh networks of the satellites that are less costly. It is projected that around the year 2022 around twenty satellites will be launched
Mandrake 1 will be the first show off, it is a CubeSat that will convey processing chips for supercomputers, and Mandrake 2 will be the second one; it comes in pairs of small satellites, and it will be transmitting optical inter-satellite links for communication network data known as broadbands. The Tactical Technology Office says that this could create an opportunity in the days to come for visual topology or meshed networks in LEO.
The wildcard is the last payload, and it is programmed to launch as well, it is a radio that specializes in software correctly, and it is set to experiment with links coming from LEO going to the tactically-based receivers; however, the launch plans and details have not been agreed upon
Paul Thomas, who happens to be the person heading the Blackjack program says that Mandrake 1 and 2 will hover in detached launches both of them going separately, he further said that there are high chances that Mandrake 2 and Wildcard could be launched at the same time. It could be unclear of how the pandemic situation would impact the forthcoming launch.
The Blackjack programs main objective is to construct a satellite that incurs less cost compared to the old soldierly spacecraft through the usage of sensors that can be made to fit into different vehicles that have more than one provider in a range of two million dollars or less than.
Thomas highlighted that they were fixated on the vehicles and payloads than the Pit Boss which is an autonomous mission management system, he further said that the two payloads which come first would be combined and launched around the mid of the year 2021 and the remaining set the following year
The agency is looking at vehicles from three companies, namely; Blue Canyon Technologies, Telesat, and Airbus, which have a review that has been designed, but the final decision on which vehicle to choose will happen this vivid year.
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Southland casino to resume table games June 8 – Arkansas Times
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Southland casino to resume table games June 8 - Arkansas Times
The Southland casino in West Memphis will resume some table games blackjack and carnival games but not craps and roulette on June 8.
The news release outlines various steps to guard against the transmission of disease during the coronavirus pandemic.
Key elements of the Play It Safe program for table games:
The three casinos in Arkansas were allowed to reopen May 18 at one-third capacity. The Saracen casino in Pine Bluff currently offers only slot machines. The Oaklawn casino in Hot Springs indicates on its website that table games are available, but Im checking that.
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping all aspects of life in Arkansas. We're interested in hearing from doctors, nurses and other health care workers; from patients and their families; from people in longterm care facilities and their families; from parents and students affected by the crisis; from people who have lost their job; from people with knowledge of workplaces or communities that aren't taking appropriate measures to slow the spread of the disease; and more.
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NSoft’s virtuals on EveryMatrix platform – European Gaming Industry News
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Playtech, the worlds leading gambling technology company, has partnered with Stoiximan/Betano, the leading Greek operator and one of the fastest growing in Europe, to launch an exclusive new scalable Live Blackjack variant, Cashback Blackjack Live.
Previously available as an RNG game, the new scalable Live Cashback Blackjack variant is an eight-deck game open to an unlimited number of players. In this game, players can choose to cash out during any action round instead of taking an action, placing a dynamically determined cashbackamount depending on the round. Continuing the All bets Blackjack line, Six different side bet options are available to players and add to the excitement. This unique scalable Blackjack variant is the recent addition to the growing portfolio of scalable Blackjack games available from Playtech live and marks the fifth variant after Unlimited Blackjack, Quantum Blackjack, All bets Blackjack and the recent Majority Rules Speed Blackjack.
Stoiximan/Betano chose to work directly with Playtech to produce the industry-first live dealer version of Cashback Blackjack, adding a new collaborative dimension to an already successful relationship.
About the game
Players begin by placing their main bet, plus any additional side bets.
Six different side bets are on offer: 21+3, Buster Blackjack, Dealer Pair, Lucky Lucky, Player Pair and Top 3. Buster Blackjack (dealers hand) has the biggest win potential a result of 8+ cards and players Blackjack pays out at 2000:1.
In the action rounds, players have five choices Cashback, Hit, Stand, Double or Split. If a player chooses to Split during an action round, Cashback is offered for both hands. If a player chooses to Double, Cashback is not offered. The Cashback amount is calculated based on the cards on the table and may change for each action round. Cashback only applies to the main bet, with side bets resolved and paid out separately.
Edo Haitin, CEO, Playtech Live, comments: The development of Cashback Blackjack Live has been a truly collaborative effort, and takes our partnership with Stoiximan/Betano to a new level. Stoiximan/Betano is already one of the leading operators in the Greek market, and were committed to working closely with them to not only build on this position, but also extend that success into further territories.
Thanks to a fantastic initiative from our friends at Stoiximan/Betano group and a great effort from the development teams on both sides, weve been able to deliver a dynamic new experience for players in record time, which emphasizes our strategy of equipping our partners with scalable dedicated solutions while still providing players with a fun and personal game experience. The Cashback concept is of course well-established in Sports betting, so were very interested to see how players will respond to it in a Live Casino setting, where theres interaction with a dealer and other players. Were confident players will find Cashback Blackjack Live a highly engaging experience.
Christos Mavridis, Live Casino Manager at Stoiximan/Betano adds: Product innovation, wide game offer and an optimum customer experience have always been among our priorities at Stoiximan/Betano. Weve already seen a fantastic response to Cashback Blackjack as an RNG game, so are very much looking forward to delivering a new experience for our players with the first Live version. Having worked closely with Playtech for some time now, we were well aware of their track record in producing innovative new content and game variants. As such we felt they were the ideal partner for the development of Cashback Blackjack Live, and were sure our players will be just as impressed with the finished product as we are.
About Playtech:
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling and financial trading industries.
Playtech is the gambling industrys leading technology company, delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content and platform technology across the industrys most popular product verticals, including casino, live casino, sports betting, virtual sports, bingo and poker. It is the pioneer of omni-channel gambling technology through its integrated platform technology, Playtech ONE. Playtech ONE delivers data-driven marketing expertise, single wallet functionality, CRM and responsible gambling solutions across one single platform across product verticals and across retail and online.
Playtech partners with and invests in the leading brands in regulated and newly regulated markets to deliver its data-driven gambling technology across the retail and online value chain. Playtech provides its technology on a B2B basis to the industrys leading retail and online operators, land-based casino groups and government sponsored entities such as lotteries. As of June 2018, through the acquisition of Snaitech, Playtech directly owns and operates the leading sports betting and gaming brand in online and retail in Italy, Snai. Snaitech operates a B2B2C model as a service provider, allowing franchisees to utilise the Playtech technology stack in the retail environment while operating the leading brand, Snai, directly online as a B2C business.
Playtechs Financials Division, named TradeTech Group, is a technology leader in the CFD and financial trading industry and operates both on a B2B and B2C basis.
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Playtech, the worlds leading gambling technology company, has partnered with Stoiximan/Betano, the leading Greek operator and one of the fastest growing in Europe, to launch an exclusive new scalable Live Blackjack variant, Cashback Blackjack Live.
Previously available as an RNG game, the new scalable Live Cashback Blackjack variant is an eight-deck game open to an unlimited number of players. In this game, players can choose to cash out during any action round instead of taking an action, placing a dynamically determined cashbackamount depending on the round. Continuing the All bets Blackjack line, Six different side bet options are available to players and add to the excitement. This unique scalable Blackjack variant is the recent addition to the growing portfolio of scalable Blackjack games available from Playtech live and marks the fifth variant after Unlimited Blackjack, Quantum Blackjack, All bets Blackjack and the recent Majority Rules Speed Blackjack.
Stoiximan/Betano chose to work directly with Playtech to produce the industry-first live dealer version of Cashback Blackjack, adding a new collaborative dimension to an already successful relationship.
About the game
Players begin by placing their main bet, plus any additional side bets.
Six different side bets are on offer: 21+3, Buster Blackjack, Dealer Pair, Lucky Lucky, Player Pair and Top 3. Buster Blackjack (dealers hand) has the biggest win potential a result of 8+ cards and players Blackjack pays out at 2000:1.
In the action rounds, players have five choices Cashback, Hit, Stand, Double or Split. If a player chooses to Split during an action round, Cashback is offered for both hands. If a player chooses to Double, Cashback is not offered. The Cashback amount is calculated based on the cards on the table and may change for each action round. Cashback only applies to the main bet, with side bets resolved and paid out separately.
Edo Haitin, CEO, Playtech Live, comments: The development of Cashback Blackjack Live has been a truly collaborative effort, and takes our partnership with Stoiximan/Betano to a new level. Stoiximan/Betano is already one of the leading operators in the Greek market, and were committed to working closely with them to not only build on this position, but also extend that success into further territories.
Thanks to a fantastic initiative from our friends at Stoiximan/Betano group and a great effort from the development teams on both sides, weve been able to deliver a dynamic new experience for players in record time, which emphasizes our strategy of equipping our partners with scalable dedicated solutions while still providing players with a fun and personal game experience. The Cashback concept is of course well-established in Sports betting, so were very interested to see how players will respond to it in a Live Casino setting, where theres interaction with a dealer and other players. Were confident players will find Cashback Blackjack Live a highly engaging experience.
Christos Mavridis, Live Casino Manager at Stoiximan/Betano adds: Product innovation, wide game offer and an optimum customer experience have always been among our priorities at Stoiximan/Betano. Weve already seen a fantastic response to Cashback Blackjack as an RNG game, so are very much looking forward to delivering a new experience for our players with the first Live version. Having worked closely with Playtech for some time now, we were well aware of their track record in producing innovative new content and game variants. As such we felt they were the ideal partner for the development of Cashback Blackjack Live, and were sure our players will be just as impressed with the finished product as we are.
About Playtech:
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling and financial trading industries.
Playtech is the gambling industrys leading technology company, delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content and platform technology across the industrys most popular product verticals, including casino, live casino, sports betting, virtual sports, bingo and poker. It is the pioneer of omni-channel gambling technology through its integrated platform technology, Playtech ONE. Playtech ONE delivers data-driven marketing expertise, single wallet functionality, CRM and responsible gambling solutions across one single platform across product verticals and across retail and online.
Playtech partners with and invests in the leading brands in regulated and newly regulated markets to deliver its data-driven gambling technology across the retail and online value chain. Playtech provides its technology on a B2B basis to the industrys leading retail and online operators, land-based casino groups and government sponsored entities such as lotteries. As of June 2018, through the acquisition of Snaitech, Playtech directly owns and operates the leading sports betting and gaming brand in online and retail in Italy, Snai. Snaitech operates a B2B2C model as a service provider, allowing franchisees to utilise the Playtech technology stack in the retail environment while operating the leading brand, Snai, directly online as a B2C business.
Playtechs Financials Division, named TradeTech Group, is a technology leader in the CFD and financial trading industry and operates both on a B2B and B2C basis.
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Playtech, the worlds leading gambling technology company, has partnered with Stoiximan/Betano, the leading Greek operator and one of the fastest growing in Europe, to launch an exclusive new scalable Live Blackjack variant, Cashback Blackjack Live.
Previously available as an RNG game, the new scalable Live Cashback Blackjack variant is an eight-deck game open to an unlimited number of players. In this game, players can choose to cash out during any action round instead of taking an action, placing a dynamically determined cashbackamount depending on the round. Continuing the All bets Blackjack line, Six different side bet options are available to players and add to the excitement. This unique scalable Blackjack variant is the recent addition to the growing portfolio of scalable Blackjack games available from Playtech live and marks the fifth variant after Unlimited Blackjack, Quantum Blackjack, All bets Blackjack and the recent Majority Rules Speed Blackjack.
Stoiximan/Betano chose to work directly with Playtech to produce the industry-first live dealer version of Cashback Blackjack, adding a new collaborative dimension to an already successful relationship.
About the game
Players begin by placing their main bet, plus any additional side bets.
Six different side bets are on offer: 21+3, Buster Blackjack, Dealer Pair, Lucky Lucky, Player Pair and Top 3. Buster Blackjack (dealers hand) has the biggest win potential a result of 8+ cards and players Blackjack pays out at 2000:1.
In the action rounds, players have five choices Cashback, Hit, Stand, Double or Split. If a player chooses to Split during an action round, Cashback is offered for both hands. If a player chooses to Double, Cashback is not offered. The Cashback amount is calculated based on the cards on the table and may change for each action round. Cashback only applies to the main bet, with side bets resolved and paid out separately.
Edo Haitin, CEO, Playtech Live, comments: The development of Cashback Blackjack Live has been a truly collaborative effort, and takes our partnership with Stoiximan/Betano to a new level. Stoiximan/Betano is already one of the leading operators in the Greek market, and were committed to working closely with them to not only build on this position, but also extend that success into further territories.
Thanks to a fantastic initiative from our friends at Stoiximan/Betano group and a great effort from the development teams on both sides, weve been able to deliver a dynamic new experience for players in record time, which emphasizes our strategy of equipping our partners with scalable dedicated solutions while still providing players with a fun and personal game experience. The Cashback concept is of course well-established in Sports betting, so were very interested to see how players will respond to it in a Live Casino setting, where theres interaction with a dealer and other players. Were confident players will find Cashback Blackjack Live a highly engaging experience.
Christos Mavridis, Live Casino Manager at Stoiximan/Betano adds: Product innovation, wide game offer and an optimum customer experience have always been among our priorities at Stoiximan/Betano. Weve already seen a fantastic response to Cashback Blackjack as an RNG game, so are very much looking forward to delivering a new experience for our players with the first Live version. Having worked closely with Playtech for some time now, we were well aware of their track record in producing innovative new content and game variants. As such we felt they were the ideal partner for the development of Cashback Blackjack Live, and were sure our players will be just as impressed with the finished product as we are.
About Playtech:
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling and financial trading industries.
Playtech is the gambling industrys leading technology company, delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content and platform technology across the industrys most popular product verticals, including casino, live casino, sports betting, virtual sports, bingo and poker. It is the pioneer of omni-channel gambling technology through its integrated platform technology, Playtech ONE. Playtech ONE delivers data-driven marketing expertise, single wallet functionality, CRM and responsible gambling solutions across one single platform across product verticals and across retail and online.
Playtech partners with and invests in the leading brands in regulated and newly regulated markets to deliver its data-driven gambling technology across the retail and online value chain. Playtech provides its technology on a B2B basis to the industrys leading retail and online operators, land-based casino groups and government sponsored entities such as lotteries. As of June 2018, through the acquisition of Snaitech, Playtech directly owns and operates the leading sports betting and gaming brand in online and retail in Italy, Snai. Snaitech operates a B2B2C model as a service provider, allowing franchisees to utilise the Playtech technology stack in the retail environment while operating the leading brand, Snai, directly online as a B2C business.
Playtechs Financials Division, named TradeTech Group, is a technology leader in the CFD and financial trading industry and operates both on a B2B and B2C basis.
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What a World Without Cops Would Look Like – Mother Jones
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Following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and an outbreak of police violence in response to nationwide protests, calls for change in Americas police departments are coming from activists,public officials, and celebrities. But unlike past attempts to reform the police in the wake of high-profile killings of people of color, which often centered on increased oversight or training, this time the demands are far more radical: defund police departments or abolish them entirely.
Efforts to cut off funding for police have already taken root in Minneapolis, where the police departments budget currently totals $193 million. (In 2017, the department received 36 percent of the citys general fund expenditures.) Two days after Floyds killing, the president of the University of Minnesota declared that that the campus would no longer contract with the police department to provide security for large gatherings like football games. On Friday, a member of the Minneapolis Board of Education announced a resolution to end the school districts contract to station 14 cops in its schools. And community groups such as the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block are petitioning the city council to cut the police departments budget by $45 million and reinvest the money in health and (non-police) safety programs.
With other campaigns to cut police budgets underway in cities like Los Angeles and New York and calls to defund the police gathering steam on social media, I spoke with Brooklyn College sociology professor Alex Vitale, the coordinator of the Policing & Social Justice Project and author of The End of Policing, to talk about the sweeping vision of police abolition and what it means in practice.
Madison Pauly: Why defund the police, rather than reform them?
Alex Vitale: Five years ago, in the wake of the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, we were told, Dont worry, were going to fix it. Were going to give the police implicit bias training. Were going to hold some community police encounter sessions. Were gonna buy some body cameras. A whole set of what we often refer to as procedural reforms designed to make the police more professional, less biased, more transparentand that this is going to magically fix the problem. But things did not get better. People are still being killed, and more importantly, the problem of overpolicing remains.
Why didnt it work?
Procedural justice folks, they want to restore the publics trust in the police so that the police can go back to policing. But this ignores the question of what they are policing, and whether they should be policing it. We have [millions of] low-level arrests in the United States every year and most of them are completely pointless. It is just a huge level of harassment meted out almost exclusively on the poorest and most marginal communities in our society. There is a deep resentment about policing in those places. And then, when theres a high-profile incident, it unleashes all this pent-up anger and rage.
Reducing policing goes hand in hand with widespread decriminalization, thenof things like having an open container in your front yard or selling untaxed cigarettes.
Absolutely. It goes hand in hand with decriminalizing sex work, drugs, homelessness, mental illness. We dont really need a vice unit, we need a system of legalized sex work thats regulated just like any other business. We dont need school police, we need counselors and restorative justice programs. We dont need police homeless outreach units, we need supportive housing, community based drop-in centers, social workers.
How do you mesh the idea of police abolition with the need to address serious public safety threats like murder or aggravated assault (when those crimes are committed by the general public)?
The criminal justice system says theres one strategy for everythingmake arrests, put them in prison. What abolitionists say is, Well, lets figure out why theyre doing this and try to develop concrete prevention strategies. Not all homicides are the same. Is it a domestic violence case? Is it a school shooting? Is it a drug deal gone bad? We know, for instance, that in almost all the school shooting cases, somebody had a pretty good idea that this might happen, but did not tell anyoneor told the police and the police had no tools to do anything about it. What if instead, we had a system in place where when a young person thinks their friend might do something awful, can go and talk to a responsible adult without worrying that the police will get involved, that they will have ratted on their friend to the police, or that their friend will get expelled from school because of some zero tolerance policy?
Its important to remember that there is no perfect world, theres no perfect solution. What we have now is far from perfect. People get killed all the time, even though our society is filled with police. Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?
Where did the movement to abolish the police come from?
It began to take a coherent shape in the late 60s, early 70s. Initially, the radical edge of this, from the Black Panthers and others, was the idea of community control of the police. But a group of activists and academics wrote a document called The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove, in which they began to say, Wait a secondis there any policing thats actually a good idea? When we understand the fundamental nature of policing, even if the community has control over it, its still a state institution thats predicated on the use of violence to fix problems. And historically, it has never operated in the interests of the poor and the nonwhite.
After the 70s, this idea became very dormant. It was the rise of mass incarceration in the last 20 years that has brought this idea back into the fore. A little over 20 years ago, Critical Resistance was formed in California, which was mostly focused on prison abolition. This led to works by Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore that were focused on prison abolition. But communities understood that to achieve prison abolition, we needed to do something about policing as well. So little campaigns began to pop up. In the Black Lives Matter era, theres been a deepening of analysis among the activists who initially just wanted to jail some killer cops, but then began to see that that would not really fix the problem.
Have the campaigns had any victories?
There have been little victories that kind of presaged what were trying to do, but not a lot. Sometimes, what we did is we prevented an increase in spending. People managed to kill a particular program, or funding for a new police academy.
The victories are not going to look like a police department getting shut down. A victory is going to look like, we got police out of the schools, or we created an alternative to using the police to deal with homelessness.
What does this end up looking like on a practical level, say, if my car gets stolen?
A friend of ours, they had their car stolen. The police actually recovered it and arrested the driver. So they were like, See? We need police. And I said, Well, lets dig a little deeper here. What do we know about the person who got arrested that stole your car? Uh, the police said that hed been arrested a bunch of times and there was drug paraphernalia left in the car? And Im like, Hmm. So we tried policing a bunch of times with this guy. Did it prevent your car from getting stolen? No. Is this person stealing cars because they have a drug problem? Probably. Is sending them to jail over and over again fixing their drug problem? No. Okay, if we want to reduce vehicle thefts, the first time that we come in contact with this person, weve got to start trying to address whats driving their problematic behavior.
Without police, or with drastically scaled back police forces, how does the picture change for people and communities who dont use the police or trust them?
For those folks, the picture changes because hopefully they wont have so many problematic things to deal with. The reality is a lot of people just dont call the police as it is because they feel like its just going to make their lives worse. That is a deep truth. And so what we want to do is not just to leave them on their own, we want to try and start fixing their problems. Like domestic violence, which goes grossly underreported because huge numbers of survivors feel that getting the police involved is just going to make the situation worse. Police come, either do nothing, arrest both parties, or arrest the man whom the woman was financially dependent upon. Hes pissed off when he gets out of jail, and he comes and beats her up again. Wheres the community resource center? Where are the supports for families, so that maybe they can fix their problems? Where are the outlets for women so that they can live independently, to get away from an abuser?
How would things change for the white people who reflexively rely on and trust the policethe Amy Coopers of the world?
They wont have this resource that they can weaponize against people. Theyll have to figure out other ways of resolving their problems.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Outrage over brutality and calls to ‘defund the police’ in U.S. cast new light on Toronto police budget – CBC.ca
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Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet still be alive ifa mental health nurse had turned upwhen her family called 911instead of just police officers?
What about D'Andre CampbellorAndrew Loku? Or Sammy Yatim?
The answer to that can never be known.
Butas protests over police brutality and racism continue across the United States and beyond, sparked by the case of George Floyd an unarmed black man who died in police custody after anofficer pressed his knee onto his neck one of the refrains growing louder and louder is:"Defund the police."
Exactly what that means can differdepending on who you ask. While some have called for anoutright abolition of police forces,others favour reducingpolice budgets so that their work focusesmore squarely on violent crime.
When it comes to dealing with people in mental distress, the sentiments behind the idea of defunding police forces stem from a singular question, saysAlok Mukherjee, who spent a decade as the chair of the Toronto Police Services Board:"Is that armed, highly paid officer the right resource for that function?"
Defunding the police, for Mukherjee, begins with asking, "What percentage of the police officers' work involves drawing the gun? Dealing with violent crime? And what percentage of the work involves social issues?"
"I think the pressure right now around defunding creates an opportunity for people to be seriously thinking about these issues," said Mukherjee,who first wrote a paper asking those very questions about a decade ago.
In Toronto, the police service is the single-biggest line item in the city's $13.5-billion operating budget. Out of an average property tax bill of $3,020, the largest share about $700 is allocated topolice. That's followed by about $520 for transit. Shelters and housing take up about $150while about $60 goes to paramedic services.
Over the past several years, the police budget has risenpast the$1-billion mark. It first hit that markin 2015, withMayor John Tory saying at the time, "We can't afford to keep the cost going up."
There was talk of reducing the size of the force, with the mayor suggestingthe service might need to shed some ofits 5,400 officers.
Still, the budget increased by nearly $41 million last year, with nearly 90 per centgoing toward salaries.
Toronto has seen police officersstationed in schools, called on to respond to mental health crises and embedded in neighbourhoods to foster community ties.
Those, according to University of Toronto sociology professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, are just some of the ways in which police have been asked to do more and more over the course of the last few decades.
"In much of the West in the 1980s and 1990s, when we saw the defunding of a variety of very important social services, the police were often left to pick up the slack, and their budgets reflect that," said Owusu-Bempah.
"We've seen a proliferation of gang intervention and prevention programs that include funding for the police ... rather than simply providing after-school services, education services, extracurricular activities and sports activities for young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods," he said.
Owusu-Bempahsays he's not a "police abolitionist" but thinks a serious distinction has to be drawn between what the police are and are not.
"They're not educators;they're not social support workers," he said
"I want the police to keep my community safe, and unfortunately, the reality for many people is ... the police are ill-equipped to do many of those things."
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Out of the nearly one million calls Toronto police respond to every year,about 30,000 are mental health calls, said the department's spokesperson,Meaghan Gray.
"Itis important to note that all police officers are trained to respond to mental health issues," Gray said.
Their annual training consists of courses on communication and de-escalation techniques.
The Toronto policemobile crisis intervention teams, which include atrained officer and a mental health nurse who respond to people in crisis, attend 6,000 mental health calls each year. Those teams do not go to calls where a weapon may be involved.
That wasthe case withKorchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Toronto woman who fell to her death from a 24-storey balcony after police were called to a domestic disturbance at her family's apartment last week, Chief Mark Saunders told reporters last week.
Hesaid Toronto police received three calls for an assault with two saying a knife was involved.
Korchinski-Paquet's relativeshavesaid police were called because of a family conflict that left her in distress.Claudette Korchinski-Beals, her mother, has said she asked police to take her daughter to Toronto'sCentre for Addiction and Mental Healthto get her helpbut that instead, she ended up dead.
"I'm not going to send a nurse to a knife fight," Saunders said when asked why a crisis team didn't respond.
The province's police watchdog,the Special Investigations Unit, is looking into the circumstances surroundingKorchinski-Paquet's death, which occurred whileshe was alone with officers in the apartment.
Speaking to reporters Thursday, Saunders spoke about the strain on the police service, saying, "Why do we do over 30,000 calls for mental health? We are law enforcement."
But when he was asked if he would be willing to take a hit to the police budget to free up more money for community groups doing that kind of work, Saunders wouldn't answer directly.
Over the past 12 years, Saunders said, police have been the de factoservice in terms of responding to mental health crises across the city especially between the hours of 4 p.m. and 6 a.m.
"Right now, we've got a responsibility, and we've got a role, and that role is to keep the community safe. Now, we need other agencies to help offload those responsibilities ... then we can start talking about reduction.
Until then, he said, "It would be naive to reduce police officers."
Stachen Frederick, executive director of the Frontlines community centre in the Weston area of Toronto, says reallocating some of the funding to services such asthe youth, meal and job programs her organization provides, with the capacity to support the needs of specific neighbourhoods, would go a long way.
She says many youth workers can find themselves in precarious situations becauseunpredictable fundingmakesit difficult for the young peopletheyserveto develop lasting relationships with them.
The work police doin hercommunity is often about intervention, notprevention,Frederick says.
"This is not about saying that we shun the police from our community," she said. "The police are there to serve and protect. The same as teachers are there to teach.
"Whenyou look at police and engaging in supporting police initiatives, that's a policing of the community. And we know that intervention is not better than prevention."
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