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Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility (chicago.suntimes.com)

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In case anyone was wondering what side your local government is on. It doesn't matter what your mayor says, or city council, it matters what the police do, and they are generally entirely insulated from those that supervise them. The power dynamics are off, the ones with power over city police are instead captured by the police. We hire dirty local politicians usually too, which makes them even more susceptible to police departments that are often run by fascists in even our progressive cities. In many cases coordinating with paramilitary groups in training, like the pround boys and their ilk during the protests.

The police need to be brought to heel in our blue cities.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It does matter what side your local government is on. AGs, judges, sheriffs, and more are all elected. That's how you get people in the right places to get these charges dropped.

[–] hector@lemmy.today -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The police departments of the city are a force unto themselves, removed from accountability from the ones that have control over them. When is the last time there was a wholesale makeover of police leadership? Never, they may change the director, the chief, commissioners, they don't change the officers up and down the line, not in portland, not in berkely, not in chicago, not even after they are found to be collaberating with fascists, and betraying their duty.

As to the state's attorneys, they are the enemy.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm in Alabama and a small town just fired all of its police because of corruption and etc, that was a pretty wild story

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Well portland oregon, berkely ca chicago, and other large cities are progressive and have fascist police departments untouchable by their local governments in fact even if not in law. Why is that? We should be wondering why, not denying the obvious. Why anyone would want to cover for fascists controlling big city police departments untouchable by their elected officials I don't know, but here we are.

That said, that sounds interesting about the alabama thing, I think I might have seen a blip in the news about that even, trying to remember. I've been too angry to really read the news like I used to honestly, because reasons.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When is the last time there was a wholesale makeover of police leadership?

https://vocal.media/motivation/the-camden-experiment-how-a-city-fired-its-entire-police-force-to-save-itself

[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember hearing about that one back in the day. My point though, the police generally are unaccountable, local leaders are themselves corrupt and therefore unwilling, but above that mostly unable, to check police departments.

Any time a reformer gets elected for a prosecuting attorney, or occassionally sherriff, the old boy network mobilizes to take them out, very aggressively, not always successfully to remove them, but it does stop the reform from spreading.

The police, and courts, are captured by an aristocracy raised to have nothing but contempt for the other tribes, and all of those below them in social status. We have elections but we don't use them, most prosecutors and judges run unopposed, and both parties being the same is never more true than it is with them. These same people run under/with a party because that's where they can win, many would be with the other team if that team were in control in that area.

Look at the minneapolis prosecutors, they can get tough with poor people, but federal agents execute their citizens under false pretense, on video, we have irrefutable evidence, and they refuse to cover the shield of law over their own citizens. They are not our friends, and the only way they will do anything is if they are forced to, and then they will make a perfunctionary effort to say they did, and throw the case if they can.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember hearing about that one back in the day.

Well, then why did you retoricly ask,

When is the last time there was a wholesale makeover of police leadership? Never

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Exception to the rule obviously. Or retoricly as you might say.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yep, you can tell by how the prosecutors went out of their way to bullshit about how the police were totally justified in arresting these people in the first place

“Although sufficient evidence exists to support this prosecution, considering the totality of the circumstances, we are declining to proceed,” the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement Monday.

Also how they let protesters twist in the wind for as long as possible

Woolf, of Lake Street Church of Evanston, said it shouldn’t have taken three months to dismiss the cases.

Also also,

Of the two people arrested that day whose cases were not dropped, one is charged with mob action and the other is charged with resisting a police officer.

Good to see that protesters and voters were able to force these prosecutors to do the right thing, but the whole system is still completely fucked

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I would have loved to see the jury trial on this though.