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

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Innocence Project

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Movement Law Lab

NAACP

National Police Accountability Project

Say Their Names

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Results of an investigative project I have been working on to expose corruption in the Seattle Police Department through normal, every-day interactions with cops at protests, rallies, marches, and sometimes, traffic stops.


Referenced videos and source links

'Antifa’ tells the real story the Seattle Christian Nationalist Protest youtube.com/watch?v=bk-UTUG586k

How Jonathan Choe and other rightwing Influencers got me fired youtube.com/watch?v=hc54mH7-M6E

Corking: The Direct action for Motorcycles, Bicycles, and Scooters youtube.com/watch?v=MUGVvyJ4z2U

You should record video at Protests (Even though it's dangerous) youtube.com/watch?v=sRYB3S1C2dY

Activists shouldn't work with Police, abolish them with ICE youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0TkKKRDhA

Seattle Police escalated conflicts during anti-trans rally in 2025, report says m.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-escalated-conflicts-during-anti-trans-rally-in-2025-report-says

Seattle PD union head supports Trump designating Antifa a terrorist group highlandcountypress.com/opinions/seattle-pd-union-head-supports-trump-designating-antifa-terrorist-group#gsc.tab=0

SPD Watch: Officer Detail: Mark S. Rawlins spd.watch/officers/1317


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0:00 Why I'm speaking out 5:44 Critical context 8:07 Corking overview 9:29 Covered license plates 10:45 Mike Solan and Jonathan Choe connection 12:21 Visibility and communication with SPD 13:55 Pre-Mayday march 15:40 After the march started 16:58 Pre-attack 17:36 The attack 19:47 My prior active SPD Investigation 27:40 My Arrest 31:49 What happened to my friend 34:43 How this impacted me 37:04 SPD protects anti-trans extremists 40:58 SPD protects and promotes rightwing influencers 42:05 SPD's Mob Mentality 43:34 The attempted Rough Ride 46:24 Biased policing 49:01 My next steps 53:37 When people show you who they are, believe them

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46085164

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Rural Organizing Project, claims state police have long-violated Oregon’s decades-old sanctuary law, which prohibits state and local resources from being used towards immigration enforcement. Last year alone, immigration authorities queried state-run databases — which includes license plate and drivers license information — 1.4 million times, according to the lawsuit.

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The chaos erupted just before 10:30 p.m., when agents brought the man to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Bushwick neighborhood. The Department of Homeland Security identified him as Chidozie Wilson Okeke, an immigrant from Nigeria who had overstayed a visa. Agents had used force during his arrest and he had requested medical attention, the department said in a statement.

A local group that tracks Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ vehicles had apparently followed them to the hospital, said Sandy Nurse, the local city councilwoman, who was present during the demonstration. As many as 200 protesters gathered outside the hospital while the detainee was inside, and some began throwing garbage cans into the street, the police said. Officers received numerous 911 calls and took several people into custody, the police said.

Hours later, agents brought the man out of the hospital. Around 2:15 a.m., officers responded to new reports of protesters blocking the ambulance bay, the police said. Videos show two federal agents dragging the detained man, who is handcuffed, out of a hospital exit, down a short staircase and into the ambulance bay, where he appears to fall to the ground.

The two agents then stand over him while police officers hold back protesters who are shouting at the agents. Moments later, the agents pull the man up by the arms and drag him into a waiting car.

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Stagi said she was standing close to the officer and filming him outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Durango, a college town popular for outdoor recreation, when he hit her hand hard, causing her to lose her cellphone. Stagi, a retired hypnotherapist, said she then reached for the officer’s shoulder to get his attention. After she said he put her in a chokehold, she said he threw her down an embankment next to the street. She said she still experiences pain in her arm doing normal everyday activities, like putting on her jacket.

Court documents allege that Rice committed third-degree assault by causing bodily injury to Stagi, but the documents don’t describe how she was injured or make mention of a chokehold. Rice also is charged with criminal mischief for allegedly damaging Stagi’s cellphone.

Stagi said Wednesday she was disappointed Rice was charged with less serious crimes. The assault charge, a misdemeanor, carries a maximum sentence of just under a year in jail. But she hopes the prosecution sends a message that immigration officers can’t tackle people indiscriminately and use excessive force.

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