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

!abolition@slrpnk.net

!acab@lemmygrad.ml

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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Right after ICE Agent Johnathan Ross executed a US citizen in cold blood

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"This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying -- getting killed," Frey said.

Frey said it does not appear the victim -- a 37-year-old woman and U.S. citizen -- was driving her car toward the agent and using her car as a weapon. The victim "was an observer" and was "watching out for our immigrant neighbors," according to Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez.

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Sources:

WBBM police protest: https://bit.ly/44NAhCa

Sheppard steps in: https://abc7.ws/4skM8BJ

Sheppard crime stats: https://bit.ly/4q0ZZM8

Sheppard sues: https://bit.ly/4q9yrnN

Sheppard’s lawsuit: https://bit.ly/45ayTtJ

Fox32: https://bit.ly/4pddzux

CBS Chicago coverage:

First report: https://cbsn.ws/48X1O6I

Video emerges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYe2MlyckNc

Scott speaks- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZOUr6174Q

James interview- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJJEqs_ehY

Scott goes to court- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYi7YaOHcM

Scott pleads guilty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HHuqvJuvA

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Carlitos was shot in the arm and is still detained.

Officer video raises questions about ICE shooting of TikTok streamer

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A man died early Monday morning in South Hill after deputies from the Pierce County sheriff’s office reported that shots were fired while they tried to talk to him, police say.

The office did not say who fired the shots. Deputies had tried to speak with the man after they “established probable cause for felony harassment,” the office said in a blotter post.

A person had reported a suspicious vehicle outside their home on the 8500 block of 156th Street Court East and that a man in the vehicle had fired a shot, according to the sheriff’s office. When deputies arrived around 2 a.m., they found the man sleeping inside the vehicle.

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The agents then start to divvy up the man’s groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband. “I fucking hate these motherfuckers,” the woman filming says as they drive off—presumably to the nearby Yakima ICE Detention Center.

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"That's the scary part, that this is just one small case of a larger systemic issue of how law enforcement is being hyper-politicized," said Jason Houser, former ICE chief of staff under President Biden. He said the incident adds to the negative view of ICE officers.

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SANFORD, Fla. — A 23-year veteran and former spokesperson for the Sanford Police Department was arrested Tuesday after being paid thousands of dollars for allegedly fake off-duty work shifts.

Ronny Neal, an investigator in SPD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct. That’s one for each alleged instance of fraudulently submitting timesheets containing off-duty work at Lofts at Eden apartments between October 2023 and July 2024

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Olympic security and surveillance are big business and that business is also enabling the genocide in Palestine. But the World Cup, Olympics, and other mega-events are more than just business opportunities. They are advertisements for the Israeli military and government’s public-private consortium of surveillance, spying, and military contractors. Increasingly militarized and securitized mega-events are secured by firms run by former Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldiers and Mossad agents, expanding the reach of these groups, enabling them to monitor and surveil populations throughout the world. These firms train local police, security, and soldiers on techniques they experimented with and perfected while serving the IOF’s genocidal colonization scheme in Occupied Palestine.

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Dodger Stadium (an LA28 Olympic venue) made national headlines last month when autonomous community members and grassroots rapid response networks observed hundreds of federal agents using the surrounding parking lots as a processing and staging area for ICE’s continued raids and kidnappings. Mainstream media parroted the Dodgers’ own claim that ICE was denied entry, and the organization has since pledged a measly $1 million towards financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.

The story serves as the latest example in a long legacy of LA stadiums, often built with public funds and dressed in civic pride, instead repeatedly used as instruments of repression against Black, brown, and immigrant communities.

For decades, these venues have been quietly transformed into launchpads for police raids, mass arrests, and immigration operations, as well as forces of displacement.

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