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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

MirandaWarning.org

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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

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The March 14 directive, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, uses an obscure 18th-century law — the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — to give law enforcement nationwide the power to bypass basic constitutional protections.

According to the memo, agents can break into a home if getting a warrant is “impracticable,” and they don’t need a judge’s approval. Instead, immigration officers can sign their own administrative warrants. The bar for action is low — a “reasonable belief” that someone might be part of a Venezuelan gang is enough.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It'shard to keep up with all the shit, but didn't the supreme court rule they couldn't use this act? Does a "DOJ memo" override a supreme court ruling?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Report a MAGAt today!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun Fact: In Indiana, you can legally convert ICE agents into a fine red mist if they try this.

They have no legal protections while breaking the law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Problem is... It then gets reduced to you shooting at people, and people shooting at you. That's seems like lose lose situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I mean, if you're going to die anyway, might as well take some assholes with you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And dying in a concentration camp in El Salvador is a lose win situation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Listen, your family migrated here like a 100 years ago from Europe... so we'll just assume you're Tren de Aragua. What? No, this has nothing to do with you being an intellectual or a lefty. Now get in the concentration ca-I mean; the extralegal detention centre... yes, that's it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No, They can not, It is a violation of the constitution. Which dumb fuck also is in violation of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Reminder that many states have "STAND YOUR GROUND" laws that include protecting you in the event you shoot someone claiming to be a federal agent who doesn't produce badges or a warrant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

it's encouraging to see Americans who still believe the law means anything. I hope you manifest it back into existence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Funny you think people will still get a fair trial (or even a trial at all instead of a bullet or "accident") in the United States after shooting someone from the regime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment, and they are counting on the Supreme Court to back then, which they won't. Then they'll just ignore the Supreme Court, and do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is why everyone needs to be arming themselves and open-carrying at protests moving forward.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Agree. They need to be extremely afraid of us. Politicians are greedy cowards, and they only respond to money and fear. We don't have money to bribe them like the Sociopathic Oligarchs, so we have to make their fear of us overwhelm their greed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shoot warrantless masked unconstitutional kidnappers and ask questions later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Fucking kill them you dumb fucks. Take your 2nd amendment guns and kill every cop, every ice agent, every cia agent, every fbi agent, every nazi, every magat, every politician, every elon and every trump. Then kill yourselves because you have officially fucking failed, and the rest of us are going down with you, you fat fucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Sounds a little too familiar

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone is going to get killed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I hope a lot of them (ICE agents) do. I wonder where all these gun toting larpers who take guns to walmart to "protect the innocent" are?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then they're going to be introduced to the floor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Face floor towards enemy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I said we would have late night, door to door searches by year's end,

They're running early

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Bang bang bang.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Enter my home without a warrant or identifying yourself, and your gonna leave in a casket.

I've also explained to my family that we do not open the door to anyone, especially people who claim to be cops. Way too easy to claim it, then force their way in while your waiting for them to prove who they are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I think trump is a fwit, but sounds like there will be more than 1 bodybag leaving.

Not a good survival strategy for your family honestly....

Better off moving somewhere safe like Australia. No guns here. No idea why anyone would want to live in that shit hole anymore with all the corruption, shitty leaders, dangerous living environment, and uneducated idiots in charge

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Oops, thought it was a republican breaking into my house. ICE does love wearing those masks because they know what they're doing is wrong, sorry not sorry.

And it was. I don't like guns, but I live in a shithole with fascists 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look, I’m going to risk… being misunderstood here… but I’m going to link to this article by way of pointing out how using subject lines that inspire disgust and apathy is how corporate social media works to divide and paralyze people. It’s in this article and it’s something to think about:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-x-and-facebook-are-modern-day-tobacco-companies/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Your article could be interesting, but it doesn't fit here, my friend. This article is uniting is, causing us to think about how we can all protect ourselves and each other.

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