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
Its much worse than the snippet above...the officers come back days later and arrests the wife and detains her until the husband turns himself in for obstruction. Yah this is gonna be a tax payer funded shit show when it goes to court...
I wonder when the individual is going to be held responsible for their actions instead of the system. It's all fucked.
If Bezos was responsible instead of Amazon for making people piss themselves during their shift, things would change a lot faster.
They are going to win so much money suing the absolute shit out of these police
Edit: if you haven't read the article it is so bad and they will win so easily. The whole aftermath of the original incident is just a lawyer's wet dream.
It's so blatantly illegal, and it's all on video, he has a good chance of getting past 'qualified immunity'.
Qualified Stupidity is more like it.
Sue the shit out of the state - the filth won't be footing the bill - that'll be the taxpayers.
When there's no consequences on the rare occasions the local mechanism for state violence do get caught, why would they ever change?
Taxpayers paying for their fuckups is a great way to get taxpayers interested in reforms.
People don't blink twice about police budgets. We buy them freakin tanks.
It hasn’t worked for the last 30 years…
It's 2023. Everyone has the internet in their pocket, including every law for your state.
There's no reason a cop shouldn't be able to cite the law given five minutes to look it up.
There’s no reason a cop shouldn’t just know the relevant laws for conducting an investigation.
The fact that police are not required to be aware of the law is astounding.