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
It sure is fun seeing our tax dollars pay 30 racist shitstains to go terrorize one man in his home.
Remember when conservatives were claiming we needed to cut costs a year ago and that's why they were voted the way they did. Federal expenses are higher than ever, new jobs haven't met population growth nor has there been a single plan to better that since Trump became president. "We want peace" yet they make excuses for threats to several countries and attacks made on multiple countries. Our imports are up year over year, not down. Meaning any bs someone tells you that tariffs were supposed to help is is bullshit.
The only thing that happened is they taxed the American people to shit, threatened citizens, attacked citizens, killed citizens, and are redistributing the money to the rich. A shit ton of money being given to banks/wallstreet to keep the economy from looking like a collapse.
Where are those loans going... Probably to fund more data centers to eat up the energy supply and raise energy costs for the average person even father... With 0 plans to expand infrastructure to support the people.
200 billion dollars later. More than any militaries except the us and china.
Predictably the main motivation for congress and the executive is extracting money for their pals. That follows for all of them, but the republicans are next level borrow and spend. They will max out the credit card before they lose power in all liklihood.
That's how many they went through before they found one fit enough to jump the fence.
The USA is a third world banana republic
Depending on your race, sexuality, and religion always has been
Banana republics had structure in the grimdark world. In USA, there's no structure to this madness
I know having cameras won't always change the situation you're in but I'm glad he did have cameras so at least we could see what happened and so there might be a chance of there one day being justice.
I urge everyone to get security cameras.
Castle doctrine my ass
Texas you say? Shoot at them on sight.
Yeah, that doesn't work so well when there's a dozen or more of the fascist bastards and they're all more heavily armed than you are..
That black panther guy put it correctly..
I can't find the video... but basically it was "Roll with more of us than them and carry bigger weapons."
He's not wrong.
More bodies and bigger guns, make them think twice.
That's how they chased them out of North Minneapolis.
I was wondering why they always move in large groups, but this is probably the reason.
You are so close to the real solution. Soooo close.
165 mm mortar?
556, 762, 308, etc
FRONT TOWARD ENEMY
The second you draw your gun, ICE has a case against you.
They obviously don't need to have anything at all against you to cause violence or even death.
I'm not saying people should start shooting, this is just a terrible no-win scenario.
LOL. They murder people without reason. They don’t need a case.
Kill or be killed.
In for a penny in for a pound.
It's like this old joke. Draw your gun and you're dead. Being right legally doesn't help you one bit if the Gestapo are after you. Fight back, sure, but don't be stupid thinking the law is going to protect you here
Organised, entitled and now empowered vigilante racist groups.
Will we shortly be seeing businesses "repatriated" to TRUE American ownership?
Will we shortly be seeing black and brown people hanging from trees?
Look at all that freedom. A shining turd on a hill, for everyone to smell. When it rains you can wallow in it.
Such bravery. Such liberty and justice for none. A shithole. A no-go zone.
What fuck all those fuckers for 1 unarmed man. Look at that last dude can't even run.
Criminals.
funny how minneapolis is making more news than the red states probably because walz isnt running anymore and they want a R win in the state, the msms know what they are doing they dont wan to alarm the righties that ice is on thier doorsteps in the red states, which are apparently doing more deportations.
Texas is full of weak men that like to talk themselves up. It’s part of their culture.
How do you know when someone is from Texas? They tell you.
