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
I counted 24 potential officers here, some on the left might not be officers, but some might not be shown in this photo, so I'll add them in.
Chatgpt suggested the daily cost for 24 officers to stand here is $6,672/day assuming no overtime and 8 hours of "protecting".
Class traitors. All of them.
Native here, and yeah the Chicago police union is basically its own damned shadow government. Fuck these pigs.
When you're very closed to the end-game and previously safe town areas are now spawning enemies, and the music is more ominous.
So i guess liberals are going to attack and burn certain businesses that they morally disagree with and in retaliation conservatives are going to start attacking and burning "woke" businesses. Eventually one side will emerge victorious and can rule over the ashes. Great plan America.
How do the police get paid again? I always forget.
Serve and Protect (the rich and their property through a taxpayer subsidy)
No one reads the fine print.
That really makes me want to buy a Tesla. They must be great if all those cops have to protect them.
If the police are lining up to protect it, that just means it belongs to someone filthy rich.
"We are not wasting tax money here!"
DOGE approved
Those cops have more important places to be.
Well there's no political convention to beat protestors at right now in Chicago.
What a completely reasonable and absolutely not wasteful use of police time and resources! "Hello, 911? My house is being robbed!" "Sorry, no officers are available because they're at the Tesla dealership"
Yeah sure...the thin blue line is BS. The police always protect the wealthy property owners and bust up the working class. I believe Netflix has a US police history documentary and who they side with during upheavals.
the thin blue line means they won’t snitch on each other’s crimes… that’s the line they won’t cross….
which makes them literally a criminal conspiracy
Hmm. Did they do that for abortion clinics when they were being bombed?
Goes to show what the priorities are
I'd be so pissed if I lived in Chicago. What a waste of funding.
Artists, where is the "SSwastikar" where the first two "s" are the Nazi SS logo, the third s is an actual swastika and the "T" is the Tesla logo? I can't draw for shit and the AI generator I use flagged it for inappropriate content...
Not what you asked for, still some kind of „art“ :)
20-some officers protecting shitty hunks of metal, when there's murderers, rapists, pedofiles, and human traffickers roaming free. This image perfectly sums up their commitment to protecting the Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist over the rest of us.
no, no, most of the pedophiles and human traffickers were standing in a neat little line with hands by their sides when this photo was taken, not roaming or doing said acts.
The Police in USA are there to protect Capital Interests. Their job to keep the status quo.
The Police in USA
Their job to keep the status quo.
That's what they do in all countries.
Not just the USA, ALL police uphold status quo.