THE POLICE PROBLEM
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
• r/ACAB
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INFO
• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• 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
• When the police knock on your door
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ORGANIZATIONS
• NAACP
• National Police Accountability Project
• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration
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Why mainstream media is not covering this more?!
Cuz all the newspapers are owned by the cunts who engineered this fascist takeover.
Ruddy cunts
We all (as in Americans) need to come to grips with the fact that we stopped demanding tangible improvements in our lives and not the hypothetical.
I read in Broken Clock Peter Thiel's book that since a lot of improvements in QOL are due to tech discovered during the space race / (growth of US empire, he doesn't admit that part), there are multiple generations conditioned to assume that "progress" is automatic.
Because mainstream media has always been the enemy.
Congress woman LaMonica McIver was charged and faces up to 17 years for trying to view an ICE facility she was legally allowed to because they’re claiming she assaulted them on trumped up charges.
Because there are men with guns who wouldn't like that. And typically, media people aren't the kind who own and use guns. So they tend to be scared about covering things that the men with guns strongly dislike.
This was a Congressman.... With a legal right to visit.
Will the congressman personally guarantee the safety of every media figure that reports on this? Legal rights are a nice fiction, they don't actually protect you.
He can put out a social media post. It would get to more people.
It sure is a good thing that the 2 largest social media sites aren't owned by billionaires who are backing Trump.
Sure if you can show me that's necessary. Things are bad, but I'm not sure if they're federal agents openly executing reporters bad.
The truth is nobody is reporting because all of our media is owned by corporate conglomerates. Their owners don't want them to report
I'm not even saying that cops haven't harassed reporters before, they absolutely have, and yet reporters still did their jobs until recently
this happening on a red state, thats why. conservative MSM, will not report negative news of red states almost never in a fair way. they also want eys off of epstein.