However, the witness only identified Parra based on superficial features, including “the jacket and the beard” and “the skin color,” the police report said, according to the Times of San Diego.
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It will be used to "prove" you did something when they want to fuck you over, and it will be ignored when they want to fuck you over.
Nothing to hide if you're innocent my ass.
When I lived in San Diego, I got a ticket for not paying the toll on an LA freeway I want within 100 miles of.
This shit is a fucking trend, everyone. Lucky for me, the person driving that car didn't murder anyone.
Got 2k bill and over due fees over due from the Texas, we’ve never went though a toll in Texas before and at the time we haven’t driven in 2 years while living in nyc
“For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer"
-Sir William Blackstone
monkey paw curls
due to the injustice stated in the post, 10 random prisoners will be released
Odds are that will be a net positive for society regardless of if they were guilty or not. Rehabilitation should be the goal, not retribution.
chicken leg uncurls
The 10 released prisoners are all innocent
rabbit's foot thumps
The ex-prisoners solve world hunger and find a general cure for cancer
I guess I should have specified "guilty" prisoners to be more in line with the quote
This is an excellent quote for the context.
Terrorist.
Police should be held individually accountable
i can't think of any meaningful reform passed that has benefited a citizen. if it did, it's not enforced enough to be significant. cops have too much power and influence on the courts to ever face accountability. i watch civil rights lawyer and most of the time cops commit crime when it comes to money or avoiding accountability.
Make em get practice insurance just like doctors and nurses, and I think lawyers are also insured for their jobs.
Most professions where you hold the future of another human in your hands require some kind of insurance, except for police. Yet a cop can mistakenly arrest you, drag your name through the newspapers and the mud, hell even shoot you for no good reason, and then walk away like that didn’t just ruin your life just as badly as a surgeon cutting off the wrong leg, or a nurse overdosing you cause they fucked up the math.
Make cops carry insurance. If they can’t afford the premiums or get dropped for being to risky, well then they can go pound sand.
These systems are meant to be used against you. Police will never volunteer information that helps you.
More scared when I see cops rather than thugs
In theory the police want to investigate crime and eliminate suspects, but in practice they give up after making an arrest. The access to new technology or information change nothing about this practice.
This is why it’s important to curb these kinds of dystopian surveillance systems in the first place. They change nothing and give reach for further unwarranted intrusions into the lives of citizens. This has been seen as cops using these systems to stalk people.
Look no further than your Miranda rights: "anything you say can and will be used against you."
Sort of. They are required to provide exculpatory evidence... but they only have to provide that information for the trial so you can prepare your defense, not during the active investigation.
Police: Here to do jack shit, since the start!
This is an interesting corollary to the "anything you say can only be used against you in court" adage.
Sue the shit out their incompetent asses
The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They're not incompetent, they're doing their job just fine.
Hence: All cops are bastards.
...and then sue the camera company and then sue the city or property owner that allowed the cameras to be in use and then use the money to buy a politician to write and pass a law to disallow warrantless surveillance.
The irony is off the charts.