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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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ALLIES

!abolition@slrpnk.net

!acab@lemmygrad.ml

r/ACAB

r/BadCopNoDonut/

Randy Balko

The Civil Rights Lawyer

The Honest Courtesan

Identity Project

MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

Adultification

Cops aren't supposed to be smart

Don't talk to the police.

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

Black Lives Matter

Campaign Zero

Innocence Project

The Marshall Project

Movement Law Lab

NAACP

National Police Accountability Project

Say Their Names

Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

 

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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

"It was just a fu-blam"

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Normally cops just shoot dogs for fun

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 week ago

The Marshall may have thought it was an armed toddler.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Und underdeveloped countries with underdeveloped people.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago

Somebody ID this bastard so everybody that sees his fat as can kick him in the everywhere.

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

Nothing says I'm a big and strong men than kicking a 5 pound pup.

No redeeming qualities at all.

These fuckers are abhorrent.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

Gustave M. Gilbert

[–] Quexotic 9 points 1 week ago

The quote appears in his 1947 book "Nuremberg Diary," which documented his observations and conversations with the defendants. Gilbert was trying to understand what could drive seemingly ordinary people to commit or enable genocide and mass murder.

Who do you know that fits this definition? 🍊🤡

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Yep. Of course they would kick a dog who couldn't hurt them if it tried. Bullies/fascists always target weakness.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Literal puppy kicking evil.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago
[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My smartwatch: Warning! Blood is reaching boiling point.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago
[–] rayyy@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"From a psychological perspective, harm toward animals is rarely about animals alone. Research has long identified childhood cruelty to animals as an early indicator of later aggression, not because it directly causes violence, but because it reflects deeper difficulties in emotional regulation and empathy development". [Source.](From a psychological perspective, harm toward animals is rarely about animals alone. Research has long identified childhood cruelty to animals as an early indicator of later aggression, not because it directly causes violence, but because it reflects deeper difficulties in emotional regulation and empathy development)

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

You pasted the text again instead of the source.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the read. It was quite interesting.

And na-ah! Im not lazy... I just have... Im really busy okay?

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

People can endure a lot. But I know what happens if you are cruel to animals. 4chan has experience in that.

So, dox him and break his ribs.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

If that was my dog, I’d probably be dead or in jail right now, but you could be sure that that piece of human garbage wouldn’t be around to hurt another animal or person ever again

When Shakespeare wanted to clearly indicate to the audience who the villain was he would bring them on stage to kick a dog.

This overt and intentional demonstration of villainy is to subtle for most Americans to pick up on.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kristi Noem's romantic partner???? If not they should hook up. Seem to have multiple common interests.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think she has a chief of pipe, er, staff for that.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Cooooorrrreeyyyyyyyyyy

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

She's rubbing one out right now watching this.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

The most moral army

[–] NavySqueal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Someones been watching their training videos from the Krusty Gnome

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I hate to be that guy, but they were likely arresting it's owner, and that dog was probably in attack mode. The video is too short to get a feel for the scene, but at least they didn't shoot it which happens far too often in these scenarios.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Wow he was personally trained by Noem, but will be severely punished for not taking the shot

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Another loser POS that should be treated in the same way. Hope the pup makes a quick recovery.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck these Nazis

[–] texture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I hope seeing this upsets a few of the people who are supporting this trash. I'm furious.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)