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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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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 hour ago

And what the US citizens will do about this ? Enough is enough when your country gets geopardized and still couple protests won't do it.

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

Welp, thats a death sentence for ICE agents. Cool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Oh, I literally just remembered my Mexican ex-roomie still gets his mail sent to my house

Well, everyone, the gun kept by the door for this exact reason is looking more and more like Im right to have it... Fuck

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

For some reason, I keep thinking that people used to booby trap their doors to discourage these types of activities. I vaguely think this was an IRA thing?

Not sure if it actually happened or it was just something from a movie, but I'm curious what would happen after a few ICE raids were turned into meat sauce by door mounted claymores.

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

It's illegal. And they wouldn't change their policies.

They don't care about their agents.

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

The reason it's illegal, is to protect firefighters and paramedics in case they need to enter a home.

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

Can't wait to see it clash when someone blows away an ICE agent in a castle state

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

The person who would that, if they are somehow still alive, will be crucified by the state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

So... where is that outrage from preppers and gun enthusaists of the government barging into their homes?

Can you image if Biden, Obama, or even Bush did this?

There would literally be a massive armed mob outside the White House.

Turns out guns are useless in the face of propaganda, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah what you need to do is 2nd amendment some of those house invaders under the castle doctrine of your State

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure they will only apply castle doctrine to non members of the state. So if you shoot an ice officer breaking into your house, without a warrant. They will still be found guilty of murder, if they are somehow taken alive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Good to know that a Stetson University law degree isn’t worth the paper its printed on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

The law nerd in me is intrigued by the idea of a Third Amendment issue arising in the wild.

The citizen in me is horrified that they'd even fucking try.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

By the time they enter, if they do, it will no longer be my home. It will belong to my estate. Fuck this admin. I hope we survive is and learn from it, at least until the next century when we will have forgotten about it again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Well, thats one way to get rid of them. Cleaning up the mess is on you though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

A "memo". A fucking memo. No, this is a violation of the Constitution. Fuck your memo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No they can't, at least legally.

I know they want to be like their idols in the Gestapo, but things quite there yet. Although it's getting very close.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

There is no "legal" in America now. RESIST

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The normal world should really expel Americans. If you're an American national outside of America you should either leave or seek asylum. Which you should only get if you didn't collaborate with any past or current genocidal regime.

No visa whatsoever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Incidentally, it's perfectly legal to own a mounted gatling gun on top the of your property.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Having read the title and also the whole article.... Let me say. The fuck no you can't. Let's get letigious or let's get the vests. I've got over 200 years of jurisprecisence and the moral high road. We can skip the cultural perogative if you really want to. Or in this case you can endorse it. It doesn't matter to me. as a cisgender white male and, and prolific gun owner, who is utterly tired of this already, let's fuckin go. I've been waiting and i've finally got the perfect set up to tell you how many ways you can blow it out your ass.

Disgusting anti American anti constitutional blowhards all of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

LOL "anti American"
It is the most american thing ever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Love this energy. Get litigious first. The thugs like violence, but they cant win at court - at least not without their favourite judges.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

This prescident isn't giving time to be litigious first. They will be in your home before you can dial 911, whom is likely helping this happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Yeah. Be ready ofc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The second amendment says that they can’t

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

The 2nd is most definitely a recommendation that they tread pretty damn lightly with this one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

The only time the Alien Enemies act should be used is in an extreme emergency: Say, for example, an orange man wanting to press a big red button to burn the world to cinders.

ICE, if it truly wanted to do things the right way, can do the 'practicable', by waiting for judges and their juries to render judgement. As we have clearly seen, ICE doesn't measure up to even basic sense nor decency. Here's hoping that ICE is broken by the people, for the people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

"Hiel Trump" is required when people meet in public or private. Any hesitation must be treated with aggressive concern and reported to all, immediately. This is the only way to keep America safe from (insert current list of threats).

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