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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RULES
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② If you're here to support the police, you're trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.
③ Saying ~~cops~~ ANYONE should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They're about killing people; we're not.
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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
Thought the Republicans were the champions of “let the states decide” guess that’s out the window when pandering to their hate.
notice how that rhetoric ended as soon as the military started taking action inside the country?
It ended as soon as roe v Wade was overturned and they immediately started angling for national abortion and contraceptive bans. They want to live in a Christian theocracy and their sobbing about States rights (to take away your rights) was all convenient lies for them to get a toehold.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Southern states before the civil war: "we want state's rights to own slaves."
Also Southern states before the civil war: "we should be able to force northern states to return slaves."
Conservatives say stuff for effects, not for truth or consistency. They are not honest people arguing in good faith.
They'll say "states rights" when that benefits them and "federal supremacy " when that benefits them. They are not good people.
Let them know we won’t stand for it by peacefully standing around and letting it happen.
Those aren’t “cops.” It’s an invading force. It is a domestic terrorist threat.
Grow a god-damned spine and send your own fucking NG forces out there to evict them. The country is dead, claim your fucking land.
says the person who would not be fighting in the second statesian civil war that action would cause
He could put up a website to collect all those videos, it wouldnt be that hard. I'm sure he would have all the volunteer hours he needed.
s/cell phones/guns/g
No such thing as peaceful compliance with fascists.
vi'm picking up what you're putting down.
That's sed
For as long as they let us put it on social media…