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
The thing is, he's precisely the kind of insecure shitbag who can appeal to the insecure shitbags who responded so fervently to the current insecure shitbag(s) they elected.
seems like the kinda guy we should lock up
seems like the kinda guy we should lock up
Every single person who shares this man's beliefs should be killed.
They are America's enemy, and America has always been very open to killing its enemies.
Just give him a boat and wait
In a normal country, that's what You call a joke candidate or a troll. But not in America.
The US regularly allows trolls to run for office as a part of a greater DEI initiative
But they are not meant to win. Update your terms, please.
Dude's got a Himmler complex.
Napoleon Complex
Just a reminder that his parents live in Blowing Rock, NC and he spends a lot of time there.
It's interesting how Biden just happened to get about 80 million votes, Harris about 75 million, and MAGA claims (incorrectly) that there are 20-30 million people illegally in America.
What a strange coincidence it is that if you add left leaning voters and those inflated illegal numbers, it lands straight on what this fuck face wants to deport.
Black people and LGBT go in the deportation line. That's the plan.
Oh yes please. Split the vote.
The rogues gallery lining up for 2028 will put Batman's list to shame. They will be so disappointed when Trump runs again.
Trump only destroyed most of the country, I promise I'll get all of it!
Well of course this guy must have my vote now!
Nah. Simpler than that.
"I'm a bigot."
That's all he needs to get every conservative/regressive vote in the country.
Napoleon Complex
To where? We have such a shit reputation overseas who's gonna let that many of us in?
But srsly, this is great because it's how MAGA is gonna tear itself to pieces once Bonespurs either has his final Big Mac Attack or becomes too decrepit for even his loyal bobbleheads to want him to be president again - and yeah I'm ignoring that minor speedbump of not being allowed another term anyway, because rules alone don't seem to stop them. Wait til others talk more boldly about running and the claws start coming out.
Dark days are coming indeed.
I'd be happier if he just departed all of us.
Is there an option to volunteer? This shits getting out of control.