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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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[–] Zombiepirate 194 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Found the article.

It's so incredibly stupid how he takes himself so seriously; he's like if Poirot had a satchel of lead beads he would stick up his nose occasionally.

And then like a coward he won't elaborate on his master plan of making education and edification punishable by law.

He wasted important people's time and then just fucked off, pretending it never happened.

What a dunce; no wonder he became a cop.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So this guy went around reading books found in a children's library that he thought were disgusting. Then he looked up the names of the children who checked them out?

That sounds like something a pervert would do.

[–] reddig33 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is one reason why most libraries don’t keep records of individual’s past checkouts.

[–] themeatbridge 36 points 5 months ago

You know, my kid's kindergarten librarian would say "anything that gets them reading is progress." So maybe we should be encouraging more dipshits to be checking out more books.

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[–] NABDad 151 points 5 months ago (2 children)

From the article:

Paul Hyde, a Granbury attorney who served on the volunteer committee tasked with reviewing dozens of school library books, said he informally advised two of the accused librarians early in London’s investigation and saw the toll it has taken on them.

“These women, that are amazing educators and librarians, have been terrified for over two years now that they’re going to get arrested, hauled off to jail on a felony charge of providing pornography to minors,” Hyde said, noting that one of the librarians left the district as a result.

“We lost a great librarian,” he said.

Anyone who thinks it's a non-issue because charges weren't filed should understand that intimidation is the point. It looks like the intimidation worked.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 25 points 5 months ago

Pigfucker County: Everyone Left?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Drive out enough librarians and eventually youʼll find yourself needing to drive 4 hours to get a tool pulled or a melanoma whacked off since good dentists and doctors usually want decent schools with libraries for their kids.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

needing to drive 4 hours to get a tool pulled

This is why you should always use tools with a flared base.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know who else did this shit?

Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] samus12345 34 points 5 months ago

"German Nazis."

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[–] gdog05 106 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The five year investigation concluded when he finished reading the three books.

[–] thesohoriots 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Green eggs? Implausible. AND ham? Elitist!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

PURPLE FISH ARE AN ABOMINATION NO MATTER HOW MANY

RED FISH & BLUE FISH DO NOT MIX

KEEP ICHTHYOLOGY PURE

LORAXES ARE FOR WIPING YOUR BUM & DO NOT GET TO NAME OUR TREES

[–] einlander 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In today's ~~works~~ world, the Lorax would get 5 years in jail for planning a protest.

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[–] cybersandwich 92 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of the south park sting episode where the cop is just blowing dudes (dressed up like a hooker) and yelling "busted!"

This guy's is just reading whatever smut he can find then yelling "busted"

Lmfao

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[–] Yawweee877h444 91 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess, he's a "christian"?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Dream job lol. Do whatever you want, no strings attached, no requerements, no responsibility, and you are entitled to a higher position in any dispute with civilians. They aren't a part of the working class, they are a class of their own, lapdogs of the ones in power. How could this happen?

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[–] BetaBlake 51 points 5 months ago

These fascist snowflakes need to be marginalized in a strong way

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

Dead Uvalde children hate this one trick

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All these books he's read but I guess he still didn't pick up Fahrenheit 451 or 1984

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

This is a MUCH BETTER use of Taxpayer Dollars then LITERALLY FEEDING STARVING CHILDREN IN AMERICA (which Republican States opted OUT OF because then they wouldn't have Tax Dollars to do THIS!)!

[–] TheTimeKnife 24 points 5 months ago

The police are so absurdly radicalized in this country.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why don’t stores that sell books get the same amount of scrutiny? I see A Court of Thorns and Roses books everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Serious answer, probably because books from book stores aren't available to the poorest classes. Libraries are (and are meant to be!) a threat to every status quo.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The minor these materials were distributed to? The officer that was investigating the library. Cuz he's obviously a big fuckin' baby.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Say it with me now,

All cops are bastards!

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 19 points 5 months ago

This reminds me of the Chickenfucker South Park episode.

[–] drunkpostdisaster 17 points 5 months ago

As if pigs can read.

[–] affiliate 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

cops will only read a book if it means they can put someone in jail

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cop: these books made me horny, you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing me to get turned on by a book, in fact I'm going to confiscate all of them so no one else has to be turned on by this filth.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Really going out of his way there to be offended.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Oink oink! What a scumpig.

[–] big_slap 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

did all the idiots just discover books??

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

They've been doing stuff like this for years. In 1990, a Florida judge ruled that an album by 2 Live Crew was obscene, and police officers went into stores and threatened to arrest anyone who sold copies of the album. The obscenity law specifically requires a "lack of serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" and they were able to get it appealed.

Reading the article it's actually more insane than it first appears. He's been doing it for two years. This wasn't an investigation ordered by a court, it was evidence he himself was compiling for his own legal complaint, which was dismissed when finally brought to the DA.

[–] 108 9 points 5 months ago

Maybe they were too busy discussing their book club while hanging out at Uvalde

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