was watching right-wing influencers
At first, I was thinking stake-out and thought great, someone needs to keep an eye on those assholes, too bad they're a shitty driver.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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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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Seems like you’d keep tabs on this kind of thing and stop him cop-ing.
Strike breakers
slave catchers
class traitors
Cops are paid killers for capitalism
Facts. I’m generally extremely pro-union, but fuck police unions, and their operational similarities to the Catholic Church.
whaaaaat??????? no wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?.....?...!??..?.?. OwO
I'm shocked I tell you! SCHOCKED!
Trump would have pardoned this guy if his crime was federal, guaranteed
If I were to imagine what a douche bag cop looks like it is this pile of shit.
I really like this article format and hope to see more of it. It is stating the facts, outlining it in easy chunks for average American, but doesn't include any flourishes that tell the reader how to feel about it or how the author feels about it.
"Those who work forces are the same that burn crosses"
Oh it's ok though cause they are trained to watch YouTube and crap while driving...it's the training that makes them better people and immune to laws. /s
I'm shocked their tablets have access to anything but what they need for work. There's no reason it should but plenty why it shouldn't.
Some private sector employees can’t access anything but what they need.
I had an argument with a friend about this recently. A local cop was watching porn while at a highway construction point, sitting in his car with lights and sirens on. The only reason he was caught was because someone died within eyeshot and he didn't budge.
My friend argued that they should keep unlimited access and with unlimited data because they have nothing to do while they get paid to sit in their cruisers with the lights on and car running. His sister does it all the time for overtime pay and has watched and re-watched just about every tv show out there.
Great, now we need to advocate for both protected bike lanes AND taking away their brainrot devices at the same time!!
I used to ride so much in California, over 3000 miles actually, but have only managed three rides in close to a decade in Vermont because the roads don't feel nearly as safe, despite having only a tiny fraction of the traffic. There's just no room on most roads out here for bikes, they're nearly all just two lanes with no shoulder with blind corner after blind corner.
Yeah most of our shoulders are pretty narrow so cycling isn’t ideal in many places
Protect and serve? More like distracted and forgot to swerve. Watching Matt Walsh trash too, not surprised a cop would watch that trash.
Fuck the police.