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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• 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
Or why average Americans don't just do the same and go rob a bank or convenience store ... just arrest people randomly, zip tie them, take all the money and leave everyone behind.
The best part would be the local news reporting the masked robbers looked like this and ask if anyone has spotted them
They are
I know of at least 2 cases
Are the Iranian terrorist cells in the room with us right now? Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist domestic terrorism?
Because media gaslighting works so well that people usually aren't aware that they've been affected by counterfactual narratives before they start actively reinforcing them by repetition.
The Google trends for this particular phrase:
It's hard not to wonder if the bump back in late March or April was from the folks selling stories right now
Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist
Because that'd be preaching to the choir. Trump voters don't care about white supremacist attacks.
So the solution is to reinforce their racist beliefs?
what part of "thought exercise" do you not understand. its an extrapolation of current events, and hypothetical scenarios. not a statement of a factual event that has happened. You cant imagine this occuring?
So foreign terrorists could cosplay as domestic terrorists and we’d have no way of knowing which kind of terrorist they are?
Interesting times we live in
If they come for you, don’t worry your bags will meet you at the destination. Get on the train.
Well....if they're white, domestic terrorists.
If they're arabic, foreign terrorists.
It gets really fun when the blue man group join in. Then you don't know WHATS going on!
First they came for the immigrants
Then they came for the activists
Then they came for the blue man group
Finally America had had enough
If they're white, "lone wolves with mental health disorders"
Yes although the recent political murders shows that you can literally just dress up as a cop and drive around in a fake police car shooting people in the head. This stuff has always been possible.
The difference now is that refusing to show ID used to be grounds for most people to call the real police.
And get shot by both
Fuck this imperial terrorism propaganda. USA is the actual terror regime. Get a clue, libs.
Why would you direct this at libs when the right are the ones going batshit crazy?
Leftists do not like libs. Many leftists believe that liberals contribute to setting up the breeding ground that fascists rise from. Many leftists believe that liberals partake in a system that even allows for fascism to rise.
I do not care to explain further. Research can be done, or perhaps someone else with a bit more energy than I right now can jump in :)
Far Right wing (Republicans) literally having full control of everything
Blames only the libs
the libs know about it, they helped set it up.
‘This is madness! Iran could do what we do all over the world!’
Iran has drones, and shoots targets withoutfirst confirming if the target even is their intended target?
I thought only the USA did that!
No, they don’t. They’ve been extremely reserved in target selection.
amplifying the "iranian terrorists are coming to get us" narrative hurts brown people more than it helps anything
using one racist narrative to fight another.
And here starts the planting of the idea that Iran is going to attack American soil... Media outlets including posts like this on social media are now shifting the narrative to make American's fearful and to help shift blame and hatred onto Iran. It's as if the much publicised ICE raids with narrative about their lack of identification was actually planned, or something. There's like a playbook of this.
Yeah, our ally attacked iran without cassus belli, iran retaliated, and we bombed iran in response.
If iran chooses to attack us in response we should br mad at our president for starting it and regardless we should demand peace and accountability
our ally... we... us... we... our... we...
Fuck the nationalist "we". Cult speak. Never ally with fascists. Never support genocide.
Not just US media. The Australian news went from “What the heck is Israel doing?” to planting seeds for both the idea of a terror attack on US soil and Iranian “regime change” into public space in only four days. They all fall into line without question when the US is writing the narrative.
This is the plan
Trump thinks that people will then demand a strongman president to protect them.
I don't think Trump thinks this. I think his puppeteers think this and he is just the shameless puppet.
There's no reason everyone that protests shouldn't be dressed exactly like ice.
Why do we have to pin a country on this action? Sure, now, it would be easy for Iran to do something. It would be just as easy for some group of people, like those who tried to kidnap Gretchen Widmar, or Vance Boelter wannabes.
Trump, Pam Bondi, and Tom Homan have unleashed chaos. Plus SCOTUS.
Because a certain demographic of the US doesn't give a shit unless something personally affects them. Homegrown terrorism doesn't affect them because obviously they won't be the targets. Iranian terrorism is scary to them.
We keep pinning shit on other countries. My parents used to say "there are starving children in Africa" as if there weren't any homeless children in our neighborhood.
Iceis
Pretty sure I know what the top Halloween costume will be this year!
New fear just dropped. I'm not going anywhere fuck this. I mean I already avoid crowds, now I'm gonna avoid them even more
We don't avoid them, but we do make a plan before we go. And, we always wear tennis shoes so we have the best chance at a speedy exit. So depressing that we have to think of these things.
I mean if an unidentified person in a mask tries to abduct me they're getting shot in the face.
i expect itll actually be more like this;
you're walking from the car to the grocery store in the carpark
it goes black and your arms are pinioned to your sides.
too late to draw a gun.
Either die on the spot defending yourself or either die eherever they might take you. "never go to a second location" is the wisdom
Its not gonna be "a person", its gonna be "a gang". Goodluck if you don't have like a militia to protect you.
