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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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Cops aren't supposed to be smart

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Killings by law enforcement in Canada

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Killings by law enforcement in the United States

Know your rights: Filming the police

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Go and live in Denmark, much better and safer country

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Why don't more people from Norway move here?

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

you dont lose 25 pounds if the food is palatable. with this trump administration in control America is not home of the free, land of the brave any more. America is not what it is supposed to stand for under the trump leadership.

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

GICEtapo at it again.

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

First they came for...

Then they fucking skipped a few verses and went for the white people already.

Citizens are next.

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

Clearly a terrorist. That smile with his loving family. Yuck. ICE are a bunch of heroes. Who else would have the balls to kill the American dream? They do what is needed to destroy the country they hate. May all of you choke you cheeseburger Gestapo.

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

Kasper and his wife, Savannah Hobart Eriksen, never submitted that form, which was due all the way back in 2015. She had suffered a stillbirth, losing their first child, and in the days of grief that followed, the deadline slipped right past them. But Kasper’s naturalization continued unimpeded. He corresponded with immigration officials numerous times over the next 10 years, and says agents never warned him that a critical document was missing. He paid taxes each year, reliably contributing a portion of his labor to the nation he already felt a part of.

Idk man sounds like he's a dangerous criminal who needs to be deported to me. Dude basically tried to game the system. There are no shortcuts in life bro. Go back to your country

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

Did anyone look at a picture of his knuckles? I bet he has ms13 tattooed there in helvetica font

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

Kasper Eriksen spoke to the Mississippi Free Press from the LaSalle Detention Center on the morning of May 20, confirming first that he was safe and not experiencing any of the abuse reported in some ICE facilities elsewhere in Louisiana. In his experience, the GEO Group-run detention center’s food is palatable...

...Even so, Kasper has already lost about 25 pounds during his detention.

25 pounds in a month! That is the 100% voice of a man speaking under duress, lying his ass off in hopes that ingratiating himself to his captors might cause them to show mercy.

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

Yeah that's starvation weight loss

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

It's a sad and disturbing story. And the guy is getting massively fucked over on a technically. But there are far worse places the family could be forced to move to than Denmark.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That would be fine if the current administration were actually deporting and not imprisoning. If he ends up getting on a plane it'll either be to El Salvador or to the Sudan. It's naive to think that they'll just send him to Denmark.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's what they've done to several Canadians who they've grabbed (after keeping them in immigration detention centers for several weeks). They eventually sent them back to Canada.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Then that needs the question, why then are they sending people to these prisons in a country that they are not from? It's almost like we somehow got sent back to the 1930s and playing out what would have happened if instead of Germany the United States decided to be the bad guys.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

The answer, sadly, is plain and simple racism/discrimination.

Non-Hispanic Caucasians are getting deported to their county of origin (eventually). Hispanics and non-Caucasians are being sent to foreign prisons. Shit's fucked up.

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

He's MAGA, we don't want him either.

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

Is he? The article doesn't say. Do you have a source for that statement?

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

Source from the article is his Twitter https://x.com/kwilliameriksen

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

A lot of people were saying it on a danish subreddit, apparently the source are his socials. I could only find this: https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/trump-supporter-snatched-shackled-and-imprisoned-by-ice-after-forgetting-to-fill-out-form-10-years-ago/

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

I’m trying to imagine being able to decide whether to raise my family in Denmark or Mississippi and choosing Mississippi. His in-laws must be lovely.

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

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

(Legally obligated)

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

The son of a Swedish friend of mine lives in Utah and thinks his son is safe from ~~the American Gestapo~~ICE because, well, he's white and Scandinavian. I sent my friend that article. Hopefully he'll manage to knock some sense into his son and convince him to come home before it's too late.

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

If you're thinking that the chuds might second guess Trump upon seeing a blonde white man welder with a white wife and four white children getting deported... You're wrong, they will not see this news story because it will not be reported in the sources they consume.

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

The revolution will not be televised

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

Exactly, this will just be ignored by the media bubble they willingly live in, and they'll never hear about it. If asked about it they'll say that if it were actually something worth discussing then they'd see it in the news.

They can't comprehend the idea that their bubble is preventing them from being told about big issues.

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

All the other goalposts move but I promise you we won't move them to exclude you so get in line and help move the goalposts to exclude that other minority that have you ever noticed is super entitled... and we have to solve THAT problem before we can go after billionaires and get you healthcare but we promise we will help your desperate situation at some vague point in the future through some vague mechanism!