this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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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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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

 

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

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[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ACAN

Originally this was a typo I fixed, but I changed it back after I decided that it was still correct: All Cops Are Nazis

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

If they were doing their jobs, and their jobs are "shoot people in face", then that's a job that shouldn't exist

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

Of course, they are all the governments hired thugs after all.

[–] Red_October@piefed.world 9 points 3 months ago

Pig bitch cowards whining that ICE fascists and Cops are publicly condemned for their wrongdoing while ignoring the fact that they're being condemned for sending people not convicted, or even accused, of a crime to prison camps and summarily executing people on the street. It's the sort of tone deaf pig shit that would get a writer laughed out of the room for being a hack.

The Fraternal Order of Police can fuck all the way off. Jackbooted fascists to the last. Bitching about being convicted "In the court of public opinion" while they literally murder people in cold blood and face zero real consequences just belies how fucking braindead their kind really are.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 9 points 3 months ago

Shit is mad tone deaf and hypocritical. Like they're not even sure what situation went down but they need to look tough.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did this shitty letter come from the GOP HQ in fucking Moscow? If not, the Fraternal Order of Police is fucked in the head.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They aren't Russian, nor are they "fucked in the head", they're fascists, doing fascist stuff. ACAB.

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 8 points 3 months ago

Pigs gonna fucking "oink".

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

"The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by ...... Have made their jobs.... more dangerous and difficult"

Uh, not at all it's statements like these ones which take the side of people who are illegally kidnapping people on the streets with no due process that make it more dangerous since people get more fed up by the fact the people who are supposed to protect them are trying to murder them and lie about it.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Shut the fuck up, Porky!

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Let me get this right. They are claiming ICE with a straight face!?

This has got to be a joke, who in their right mind would try to cover for ICE. This police union owes them nothing and if anything ICE is making policing more dangerous by allowing poorly trained officers to damage law enforcement reputation.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Police "unions" across the country are solidly pro-trump, so of course they love the brownshirts

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 3 months ago

So what they're saying is that the police are valid military targets in the war on terror? Is that it?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

TLDR; when SHTF, we’ll be with ICE.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Does anyone have a link? I am trying to confirm if this is real.

I can’t find any official links for this release, but it does have similarities to statements made by FOP in October.

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[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Fucking bootlickers

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Serving and protecting the community!

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 5 points 3 months ago
[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So what's the plan? Continue paying your taxes and support them?

[–] Feedback17@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do Republicans have posters of Hitler in their homes?

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago

I mean, they did rush to clear out Jonathan Ross's home before anyone else could get to it...

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Shocked! Yes, shocked I am that FOP would enable and support such fascist behavior.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Never going to stop posting this. ACAB. Every last one.

[–] Windhover@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Now please give us a donation…

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Fucking ewwwwwwwww

[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

So the dirty fuck PIGS have drawn their line. Cool. You are still WOEFULLY outnumbered.

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not American.. Who is publishing this? I thought the important police guy from the area was calling it murder or near enough in the press?

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the Minnesota police union. Because cops need unions but cashiers don't. I fucking hate them so much lol

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Then shoot them. That's the honest to God solution right now. Our structures need to be violently torn down and rebuilt from scratch. When the government fears us, there will be liberty and justice again, and not a moment sooner.

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[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Just checked the Wikipedia article about the FOP. They look like a pretty nasty bunch.

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