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
• 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
Bootlicker: "wHaT's thE cONtExt¿
Rational person: this is unacceptable no matter the context.
I would only see this behavior as excusable IF there were a machine pistol involved. Or a rocket launcher, or a bmx riding down an 80ft tall cliff onto a ramp.
Too much chance of hitting someone unrelated. There could have been kids around any of those turns he blindly flew around.
I mean it turned out there was a 50 plus year old house at the end of one of his blind turns which did him in!
Plate: BC3321 Vehicle: 198956
Im shocked he didn't just shoot.
Cameraman is brave has fuck to be heckling the single digit IQ party member.
Baltimore is a different place.
Praise the cameraman. Dude stayed on it!
And tried to stay where he could both record and help victims if he did manage to hit someone!
News article about this. Officer McAttemptedMurder isn't named here, though.
Jesus Christ that headline "officer suspended after viral video appears to show him almost running a man over" should instead be "officer suspended after viral video appears to show him attempting to run a man over" but local journalism is all but dead so good luck
Edit: also how the FUCK did they not include the video?! It's literally a dudes video recording posted to social media and I don't care if they have to take 20 minutes to censor it a little so little Timmy doesn't hear a naughty word in the footage of a cop attempting vehicular murder, they should have already gotten permission to include the video on the article or at least included a link to it. They included a single still so it's not like they haven't seen it!
Police have since identified the officer in the video as Robert Parks.
As a jury member on this future trial, sure looks like attempted murder.!
Speaking of jurors, in the case of the cop shooting a black woman in the face last year, there was only 1 black juror
This is why you NEVER invite the police to your home unless it is an absolute necessity. Once a cop shows up, the chances of you or some other innocent person ending up dead increases enormously. Even if they don't murder someone, it is unlikely they will even resolve the issue you called about. 50% of the time they'll get mad at the caller for disturbing them.
I don't like to be anywhere near cops. If I'm in 7/11, and a cop walks in, I leave immediately.
It's america, so you never know. He could be a good Christian boy
But he was coming right for him!
Jesus fuck, where do you Yankees get these officers from? leftovers from the McD, trained on Need for Spoed or what?
Too cowardly for war, too stupid to be normal police. Quite literally leftovers.
Edit: too
You literally have to take an IQ test to become a cop, and can be rejected for scoring too high. You literally HAVE to be a dumbfuck to "serve."
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/5420630
They get sent off to “everyone is a threat and trying to kill you all the time” school for 2 weeks before they get a badge and gun.
Remember the Confederacy? This cop was always a supporter.
"Protect" and serve by needlessly endangering literally anyone in the vicinity. Classic
Friendly reminder that "protect and serve" was just a marketing campaign that got popular. There is no factual basis behind it.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the police should behave this way. If their duty is to law and order then this behavior is the antithesis of that, unlawful and creates disorder. Look at all of the drivers not knowing what to do, probably scared shitless that a cop is going to hit them and they'll somehow be found at fault. Do you think the owner of the house he crashed into is going to see a dime? Maybe if they sue the city, but probably not. Can't sue the officer thanks to his immunity from the consequences of his own actions. Ugh I set out to write something tongue in cheek but this shit is honestly just too infuriating.
wow what the fuck
Why are they all shaped the same?
If not fascist, then why fascist shaped?
Seriously, dude should be in prison for this.
That dipshit cop is on trouble with his bosses, and all of his colleagues are going to seriously torture him. Good chance he gets fired. You can't rampage through a busy city neighborhood trying to deliberately run down a citizen. I highly doubt we'll be seeing a police captain on TV saying that he followed his extensive training and department policy perfectly.
Are you kidding? I can't tell. Don't these cops just get a paid vacation until people forget about their crimes?
They're gonna fuck with him cuz he missed.
Usually, but this isn't a gun case, which they always have to defend to the heavens, no matter how wrong it is. This is just a stupid cop, behaving ridiculously.
This is pretty typical for Baltimore cops. Some of the most corrupt and violent in the country.
They did a whole series on this called "The Wire".
I assume there is not enough evidence to actually sue and jail him so he needs to be reinstated.
Give him a promotion. Make him chief of police /s
I enjoyed the dilusional optimism of thinking he can pursue the suspect by running
I enjoyed the dilusional optimism of thinking he can ~~pursue the suspect by~~ run~~ning~~
I gotta say it’s somewhat refreshing to be upset over racist cops escalating to attempted murder of someone dark skinned in a far away city …… at least it doesn’t mean the end of us democracy, economy, standing in the world. I can’t believe how low this bar is going
look I'm kind of against more access to guns, but dangerous people like this getting shot or otherwise violently disarmed in public wouldn't make me cry
Yo wtFFFFFFF
He has a promising future in ICE.
wtf America