THE POLICE PROBLEM
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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RULES
① Real-life decorum is expected. Please don't say things only a child or a jackass would say in person.
② If you're here to support the police, you're trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.
③ Saying ~~cops~~ ANYONE should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They're about killing people; we're not.
④ Please don't dox or post calls for harassment, vigilantism, tar & feather attacks, etc.
Please also abide by the instance rules.
It you've been banned but don't know why, check the moderator's log. If you feel you didn't deserve it, hey, I'm new at this and maybe you're right. Send a cordial PM, for a second chance.
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ALLIES
• r/ACAB
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INFO
• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• 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
• When the police knock on your door
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ORGANIZATIONS
• NAACP
• National Police Accountability Project
• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration
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I didn't call you any type of political affiliation. I just think you're kind of an asshole. Or more likely autistic and when criticized for responding inappropriately, instead of recognizing "oh yeah, that's my autism", you argue about people criticizing you.
You know, if people actually once told me I was responding inappropriately and why, then I might actually listen. :)
You said:
Would you like to point where you told me I was responding inappropriately and why that would be?
When a serious video about people being harmed is presented, trivial complaints about personal aesthetics are inappropriate. Doing so implies the event being recorded is at a level of seriousness where minor criticisms are expected.
If you're watching a fashion show, criticizing a dress for being ugly is entirely appropriate. If you're watching that same model in the same dress tearfully talk about her sexual assault, it is not.
I was not. And if you are just gonna skip over this explanation again, I will lose my mind. I have now clearly laid out mutliple times that I have serious mental issues. Not as in that I am irrational or that I have lost my sanity, though the latter did happen in the past, but in that I have hypersensitivity and mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, adhd (not an illness). On top which I am also very sound sensitive. Like take a person that is easily startled, get's the tone of people wrong because "they scream" i.e. speak loud and then put on top of that hypersensitivity. I am a mess. And you saying "this isn't a fashion contest" disproportionally shows my feeling towards the sound. Sure it's not physically painful, way too quit for that, but my brain responds radically different to the sound. On top of which I have ADHD, so while I might have clicked on the video knowing it's ice, americas local military police and terror organization, I will have completely focused on the thing catching my attention, as you do.
And that is precisely what I mean with people not understanding me, because this is not the first time I have explained this and people comptely glance it over, with the exception of a single person that has recognized that while my comment was not nice, which I agree to, but which hasn't been up for debate even once, as you are completely oblivious to rational conversation, it is understandable, since I have highlighted that this is about me feeling psychological pain.
You're doing it again, mate. What is being heard by your audience is that your sound sensitivity is as important as (or more important than) this woman being fired at and grabbed by secret police in front of her children.
There are orders of magnitude separation between those levels of trauma. Those children will never be the same, nor will the mother.
Frankly, fuck your sound sensitivity. Contextually wildly inappropriate to complain about, compared to the severity of the situation.
From that context, absolutely fuck my sound sensitivity. I have no problem with that. But there is no way in hell that I'll get someone to tell me that me finding it annoying isn't appropriate. Instead I'm beraded, because people interpret some truly wild shit into what I said. I see that, isn't hard to see either. I even commented in the comment itself, that I find the idea of the whistles to be good.
And again, I don't really give a shit what you think I said. I give a shit about what I say. What you think I said is not reality. That's a hallucination. Especially online.
And what's this you're on about inappropriateness? I'm annoyed by the sound. It's appropriate I say that. Making sure to still say I'm for it. That's american taboo-think.
Absolutely, unequivocally not. No. By doing so, you are trivializing their experience.
You did not, no. Sorry If I did you wrong there. And I was tested for a lot of things. Autism was negative. Sorry to disappoint, little ableist pig.
Ok, so just asshole then.
But seriously, might be worth a second evaluation. And to be very clear, this is not an insult, because autistic is not an insult, but it sure would explain a lot of this interaction.
If you want to call me that, that's fine. 100 times better than republican.