Oh look at that, the thing everyone suspected happened happened.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
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• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
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A cop shooting someone who is following directions should be premeditated murder.
But then how will they play Simon says?
Simon Says put your hands up
Different Simon says get on the ground
Third Simon says drop the gun, wait do they mean the phone?
Oops, you listened to the wrong Simon, time to get 37 new holes in your body.
Or an acorn drops on the car..
At this point, it should be justifiable homicide to shoot police on sight. If I was on a jury, I'd never convict if the only victim was a cop.
Police in the US exist solely to protect the rich, and their property. Period. Do not expect them to help you if you are not rich.
also true for any other nation, one needs only to look at the role of police in suppressing dissent (see for eg the current police response to anti-israel protests in germany)
Nope, they exist to protect THEMSELVES. A lot of their training centers around an "us vs them" mentality here in the US - they are taught that ANYONE who is not a police officer is willing to kill them at the drop of a hat, and they must do the killing before they are killed. There are seminars that teach this mentality, very well-attended by police.
They might have protected the rich at one point, but now the only people they are truly taught to protect is themselves and other cops. Everyone else is a potential combatant and should be treated as such.
Sure thing. That's why the people they continually murder with impunity are almost always black. Don't bother responding, I won't see it.
This shit has got to change.
Until it is routine that police are routinely held accountable for unreasonable actions, this will not change.
It is also telling that there are many in power that are against unions except for the police unions which constantly shield these officers from even going to trial for things a regular citizen would be.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Calm down Arthas
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Is there even a cease fire protocol in their handbook, or is it just to limply say 'stop' as a conga line unloads a crossfire wall into someone's backside?