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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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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

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When the police knock on your door

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Remember, if you want to go through body armor, you'll either have a hell of a time finding AP ammo, need to hand-load your own, or -- the economical, thinking man's choice -- have 12 gauge slugs*. Buckshot and regular FMJ will not cut it unless you're more confident in your shot placement under pressure than I am (in which case, aim for the face or the groin, but not center mass)

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 23 hours ago

Personally, I think 00 and 000 buckshot would do fine. The spread may allow even an barely trained shooter to wing a limb or neck, which tend to be unarmored. You don't need a instantly fatal wound, just one that incapacitates.

The important thing is to have a shotgun that affords you the ability to fire two or three times on demand, just in case the other ICE decide to fight rather than fly.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If they are close enough to me to film as close as I've seen, I feel like they're close enough for face shots?

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You might get the one in front of you but the ones behind them will light you up and not only kill you but everyone in the house because they will empty those AR mags. Being a MP in the Army I trained urban warfare a lot and these guys most likely have only trained once. They will freak out and just hose the whole house with no regard for children or anyone else. This is being done to get a response so elections can be postponed. I don't know the answer anymore.

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If something doesn't happen before the elections, something will be orchestrated.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I do not doubt that at all.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

True but I think that ICE will stop going into houses very quickly if a few point guys get smoked. They're willing to kill but are they willing to die? I don't think they are.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Fuck direct confrontations. These small-dick losers are babies with axes to grind. If we can learn the intended target, boobytrap that shit. Do some Home Alone shit, for real. Cover them in Nickelodeon slime and feathers. Better yet, borrow a page from Mark Robert and make sure they can never use their equipment without sparkling like the special little boys they are when you unload glitter bombs all over them.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps, perhaps they will fucking bomb them instead, or simply find more meatheads, some arrogant enough to attack anyways.

An organized effort by the state will not be stopped by random acts of heroism. There must some kind of organized resistance. Perhaps actions that would be classified as terrorism and I 'd rather not get more into it or I 'll probably get banned from .world.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Everything is better when you do it with friends.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you willing to get you and your family killed? What you are asking is for one family to sacrifice for us to make ICE scared. I don't think anyone wants their family to get smoked.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Calm down. I live by myself and have no kids and no one is asking you to make your 10-year old hide in a corner with a rifle pointed a door.

ICE running into another Micah Xavier Johnson is matter of when not if.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While getting fired upon in return (which you presumably will be, immediately, if you're telling them to fuck off or be shot and they're not fucking off)?

Heads are small targets and hard to hit if they're moving, and they move a lot even when the body they're attached to is not actively trying to dodge gunfire. If you want to take out more than just the one you surprise, I would strongly recommend something that can punch holes in body armor -- if you're gonna go down this route, go down with >1 KDR.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If they are close enough to shoot you in the face three times, they are close enough to be shot in the face three times.