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
Apple will eventually notify the occupants of the vehicle that an unkonwn BLE marker is in their proximity for XX time, but, perhaps they won't find it or know about it. They are pretty fucking stupid.
‘Eventually’? I sometimes get notified about people with AirTags sitting near me on the same train.
There’s almost zero chance they don’t find these in an hour or less, and the precise tracking feature allows you to find exactly where they are.
Considering the tags alone cost about $30 each this would just be an enormous waste of money.
As the post title says,
Its actually not hard to make a tracking bug with a decent range. The problem is that they still use rentals afaik.
So if the rentals are damaged in any way they would be in the hook to pay for the repairs?
Yes, our taxes are paying for repairs.
Our taxes are already paying them, the question is does it come out of their budget and drain their funds?
Their funds are as deep as the administration feels like they are. Probably up to and including armed robbery of citizens at gunpoint if things keep going. Think "nazis ripping fillings out" type of "we need to fund ICE"
Probably if a bunch of rental cars kept getting totalled, rental companies would stop renting yo them.
No, they’ll get a new car paid with taxpayer money.
Shit, I didn't know it was that fast, my experience had been like 6 hours
So airtags are useless for securing cars or other important items against theft?
Since the thieves will be notified about the airtag and thus know to look for and toss it?
Not useless, but yes - they’re likely to be quickly found and discarded.