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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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A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

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Cops aren't supposed to be smart

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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 day ago (2 children)

Ok let me get this straight. There's no legal migrant anymore?

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

Something something illegal search and seizure blah blah blah, meaningless paper to the people who claim it to be the one all, be all document.

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

If anyone forces their way into my house without a warrant, they are getting shot.

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

Put a bullet in the head of an ICE agent, see how many wanna go inside a home.

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

Are people going to stand their ground when this happens?

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

Any law, rule or regulation that violates the constitution is invalid. The Supreme Court has ruled on this in multiple cases. Unless Congress passes a constitutional amendment that eliminates the 4th amendment, the executive branch must abide by the law as it's written. The executive branch has no authority to make, change or interpret law.

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

Correct. At this point a few ICE agents need to be treated as armed intruders and dealt with.

We don't do this in an armed society ... it's why we are armed.

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

It's a bold move Cotton, let's see how this test of the 2nd amendment plays out.

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

It's totally fine everyone. Obviously this would only ever happen to poor people or bad people or other people /s.

Seriously though, where the fuck are all the people screaming about freedom?

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

Republicans would have turned in Anne Frank. This is truly some gestapo shit.

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

Republicans would be the ones looking for Anne Frank.

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

Can't wait to hear people like Alex Jones defend this. Can't wait for every sovcit to defend this. Can't wait for every Gadsden flag flag and bumper sticker to defend this.

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

MA~~G~~NA Make America Nazi again

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

Remember when democrats got all heated about G Gordon Liddy saying “if the feds come to your door, shoot them in the head” (to account for body armor)?

I don’t know why that popped into my head just now.

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

Don't do that.

Shoot them in the dick.

Seriously.

The lower abdomen is chock full o' arteries, and a hit on the pelvis is going to instantly drop someone; you can't walk with a pelvis that's been shattered by a 9mm. It's also generally an easier target.

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

BRB. Going to invest in Kevlar cod pieces.

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

Send bachelors.

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

They absolutely can’t.

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