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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 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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you die you can’t sue and the public doesn’t get to hear the victim. The family can sue, but it’s not the same. Seems to be pretty standard, even in CCW classes it’s often implied if not directly stated that if you shoot someone it’s better if they die so you don’t get sued by them.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's part of it, the other part is it's hard to tell when a person is no longer a threat to you in the heat of the moment. People have been shot before who aren't high on anything and still able to go for several minutes longer with life ending injuries.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does any of that have to do with this situation?

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was commenting on self defense usage in general. Though all the gung ho idiots seem to forget the first rule, avoid a situation where you'll need to fight/defend yourself. This is from someone who has been educated with self defense classes, reading, and examples.

Add information about what's also taught with self defense, get insulted and blocked for it. Fucking cool man...

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Are you rationalizing why he shot her or are you just trying to show off your morbid knowledge and impress us with your background? I already stated why death is a “preferable” outcome. What did your grisly contribution of “they can still live a while” add?