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
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42886604
8-12 inch strip of dark tint at top windshield, usually small triangle in the middle.
Lights hidden in tinted top strip, grill, bumper, side mirrors, headlights, etc
Sorry, but, this is useless.
Also, most (though not all) are Fords. Look for a metal cage behind the driver, and wheels are often black with a central, circular, silver hub. Some will have an approximately 10in square plastic box on top.
wheels are often black with a central, circular, silver hub.
Bingo, the tires are always the big giveaway for me. Virtually no other car on the road will have them, and if I'm not mistaken, sale of them is restricted as they're resistant to puncture (Spike Strips, etc.). The odd example that you see might simply be a discharged PD model sold at auction after its service life has elapsed, Impala, Crown Victorias, etc.
I fuckin' hate Illinois nazis
This is true for basically all undercover and ghost lettered cop cars in Texas
Oklahoma too
It’s the whole fucking county. ACABs
Also ICE wasn’t using cars like this, they were using rental cars, even small Subarus and full size trucks with no modifications at all.
Also visible from the front windshield is usually a laptop with laptop holder. You don't usually see those on civvy vehicles.
Another sign is an extra antenna
The best sign....the license plate mounted directly to the body, no license frame
A lot of the paramilitary cars don't have license plates
Then there you go....no license plates
This isn't going to help at all when they're rolling up in vans they borrow from local businesses.
Do they really bother with rigged up vehicles like this? I was under the impression they just drove regular vans.
Their funding is insane and they are getting both undercover cars and visibly indentifying cars.
True. I hadn't considered their open check status.
IMO that’s what this post is for, for those of us that forget or don’t understand just how huge their budget is now.
We will certainly look back to their activity, training, arms, and equipment in 2025 as quaint compared to what is coming.
Updates like this at least inform people that their tactics are evolving.
We will certainly look back to their activity, training, arms, and equipment in 2025 as quaint compared to what is coming.
We will certainly look back to their activity, arms, and equipment in 2025 as quaint compared to what is coming.
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I was under the impression they were using rentals but considering they crash vehicles intentionally and pretty regularly it must be quite the bill at the end.
Yes.
Absolutely they do, it's just that there aren't as many available for service to officers as rental agency vans/SUVs. It's expensive to rig up floor model vehicles that way, and they're typically sold from auto manufacturers to PDs/Sheriff's on special order (with a backlog to suit the additional modification time).
I drive my car too fast so I've been training on this since I was 16.
How fast does the zamboni go?
Small triangle is a cruise control/lane assist camera a lot of cars have. What's with the trim at the top of the windshield
Edit: police lights, missed it in the pic
