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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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ALLIES

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Randy Balko

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Identity Project

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INFO

A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

Adultification

Cops aren't supposed to be smart

Don't talk to the police.

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

So you wanna be a cop?

When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

Black Lives Matter

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Innocence Project

The Marshall Project

Movement Law Lab

NAACP

National Police Accountability Project

Say Their Names

Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

 

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 165 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is why it's important to remember that in any revolution, resistance, or targeted action, it's the police that are the first enemy. They'll be the ones that respond first, and will likely toe the line the most reliably.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

2nd Amendment is usually a punchline, but it may become necessary

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Tbh, it always has been.

The only problem is that we've been set up so that the people that are most likely to oppose the worst case scenario are the ones least likely to be both armed and willing to fight.

Just wait, though. If things slide the way they could, it won't be long before the party policy shifts against armed citizens.

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[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 106 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of Brandalism

Here's an example!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 6 months ago

You should post that to the Wikipedia community.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 106 points 6 months ago (1 children)

NY transit starts getting complaints about an ad they have no idea about.

"No, m'mam, we don't have a death penalty policy.....no......no m'man, I don't know what poster you saw....."

[–] Apathy@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

At this point it would be better usage of money to make it a surveillance state instead of a police state, cameras won’t shoot you

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 6 months ago

It's also a surveillance state at this point.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Please transcribe images of text for the blind

[–] monolalia@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

SKIP THE FARE? EXPECT THE DEATH PENALTY

On September 15th, the NYPD shot four people over the $2.90 fare

OMNY

So the NYPD can double tap and go

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It says OMNY. It's a payment system for the subway

[–] monolalia@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Thanks -- fixing

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Adding descriptive text to all images is the cool thing to do.

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