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
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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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Wut? Most citizens don't carry their passports around in their home country.
Yes, that's what I was saying (though I guess if you're Hispanic-looking and you live in a hot spot for ICE operations, it might be a pretty good idea to carry with you just in case).
Oh yes, land of the free! Carry your papers or else something bad might happen.
What if they declare your passport fake like real IDs?
Did you actually read the article?
Forget the passport. Apparently it’s that easy.
Who's paying for the vehicle damage?
What happens when the victim is late for work?
That doesn't sound easy all.
Yeah, like I already said, if this was a genuine mistake on their part, as it appears to be, they should definitely have to pay for her damages, as well as any medical bills and missed time at work. No question about that.
Also, maybe the arresting "agents" should be sacked...? No? You have nothing for "agents" whose first instinct is always to be brutal, and to suppress others rights...? I don't think you are a nice or even decent person. Your neighbors must keep one eye on you, at all times.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I know I do. I'm sure you do, too. But if we all just keep hating each other forever because of our past fuckups, you are closing all paths to redemption, and there's no way anything will ever get better.
BS. Stop this garbage. ICE are nazi, racist criminals, and you are a nazi for supporting them. There is a point where redemption is no longer possible, and nazi is way past that point, nazi. I don't want to get on with you or them, my standards are way higher than that. I don't sleep with nazi hitlerpigs! Ima just going to keep on hating you cunts, and maybe one day, I can do more than that...!
I'm sorry you feel that way. Must be exhausting.
Aren’t you republicans always up in arms about having to show your papers like Soviet Russia? In a free country, you don’t have to do that. Being brown isn’t probably cause or reasonable suspicion.
We have such incredible law enforcement agencies, I’m sure they can find actual evidence through investigations that they don’t need this easy button of demanding everyone show their papers.
First of all, she is driving a car. Carrying a license and proof of insurance is already mandatory in that case (and for good reason).
Second of all, how difficult is it to remember a single nine digit number? You’re making it seem a lot more difficult than it really is.
I am a US citizen, and I don't have a passport. I'm white, so I don't have anything to worry about. I have an adopted sister who is Hispanic though, and she doesn't have one either. I've been trying to convince her to get one and keep it on her person.
We live in a red state, so we're not an ICE hot spot like Chicago is. But they are still around. They are everywhere.
If she gets arrested and released, that would be bad. But how many people are being disappeared to foreign countries they aren't even from? That's my biggest fear
Valid fear. Though, I suspect that if that is happening, it likely doesn't matter if she's legal or not. She's still brown. Which is clearly the criteria they're working with.
And just so we're clear, I'm NOT defending their actions. I'm just defining how they think. I happen to think how they think is disgusting.
Dude!
Can you still feel yourself?
Forget the passport, that was a dumb idea. You can get a driver’s license with RealID (which is becoming the norm in most states anyhow), or if that doesn’t work, apparently giving them your SSN is enough for them to verify your citizenship status.
But we don’t live in fascism? You’re full of shit.