this post was submitted on 08 Nov 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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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.

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ALLIES

[email protected]

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r/ACAB

r/BadCopNoDonut/

Randy Balko

The Civil Rights Lawyer

The Honest Courtesan

Identity Project

MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

Adultification

Cops aren't supposed to be smart

Don't talk to the police.

Killings by law enforcement in Canada

Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom

Killings by law enforcement in the United States

Know your rights: Filming the police

Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)

Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

Police lie under oath, a lot

Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

So you wanna be a cop?

When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

Black Lives Matter

Campaign Zero

Innocence Project

The Marshall Project

Movement Law Lab

NAACP

National Police Accountability Project

Say Their Names

Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

 

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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb 128 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gang and nude are now censored words to some? Jeez

[–] MoonlightFox 50 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't get the new trend of manual word censoring at all. It is so strange to me how people sensor sex as s*x for instance. Whyyyy??

[–] Electricblush 48 points 1 month ago

I think there is a lot of Mythos surrounding "the almighty algorithm" and getting fewer views on posts containing words advertiser's don't want associated with their products.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

they're trying to appease their God. the great algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lots of people get in the habit of doing that if they are content creators as depending on the platform you can get demonitized or have your video quietly suppressed. Most of this happens automatically by filters or transcriptions, and is opaque to creators so its hard to tell what is allowed. So if you are an Instagram creator or youtuber you can build the habit of preemptively censoring words you think might get flagged.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This trickles out to content consumers as well though - some of my younger friends always do these replacements everywhere, and they're definitely not a content creator. Exposure to a speech pattern will inevitably influence your own.

Please note I'm not passing a value judgement like "kids these days", just pointing out that not everyone who does this is a content creator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Self-imposed 1984 type of stuff, right there. I don't get it either. Makes me feel like we're pulling ourselves into some crazy pants alternate reality

[–] abbotsbury 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone is telling you about the algorithm punishing any non-sanitized content, but I'd like to present a slightly less worrying reason why people do it: to avoid getting harassed by chuds searching for topics like 'rape' and 'nazi' and starting arguments.

[–] grue 15 points 1 month ago

If by "some" you mean The Algorithm™ on corporate-owned (read: advertiser-subservient) social media, apparently yes. Now that I've put it that way, is it really that surprising?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

They took "f*** the police" too literally.

[–] VubDapple 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zombiepirate 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The best Nicolas Cage movie, and it isn't even close.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] VubDapple 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Leaving Las Vegas was close

[–] FordBeeblebrox 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Con Air is up there too, for more than just Cage

[–] Jarix 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox 4 points 1 month ago

Another great film full of great actors. Gen. Hummel is supposed to be the bad guy but makes some good points

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

And the guy, Edward Ramos, was found dead in his cell about three days ago. Is that a coincidence or what...

[–] feedum_sneedson 14 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

So if we can’t find a news article should I trust this? Are any of the sources high quality?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Uhhhh .... I .... was deep in under (the) cover!?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All other things aside: that's a phenomenally photogenic dude right there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

His white tee and face tats contrast in a weird way.

[–] Etterra 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah she's really aiming up in life by fucking that mustache.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s got such a genuine smile.

[–] SkunkWorkz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Daaamn, he is literally doing that emoji

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Legit that’s is an adorable smile

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He was actually a ging member. They wrote the dot for the i, and just forgot the line underneath.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes but also no. Either way, I bet it was extra spicy for both of them.

[–] Dkarma 3 points 1 month ago

Under coverrrrr

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

How could she resist that guy?

[–] cabron_offsets 2 points 1 month ago

He’s a looker, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One less pig.

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper 1 points 1 month ago