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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INFO

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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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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49554844

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Her daughter confirmed she was on her way to chemotherapy appointment and is a citizen. The truck had been following her and she stopped in the gas station to ask for help because she was scared.

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49556786

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This occurred on Roswell Road, exit 25 of I-285 east, around 9:45 a.m. According to witness. The person who recorded the video says he parked at a U-Haul dealership on Roswell Road, went to the bathroom, and returned. Approximately 7 vehicles surrounded his work van. "They forcibly removed two of my workers who are from Guatemala and took them away." "They didn't arrest me because I am a citizen and I argued with them about that," said the witness, who rebuked the agents. "I tried to prevent them from being taken out, I even locked the driver's door, but they broke one of the windows," he added.

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Officers were called to an apartment complex in the 2600 block of Divot Place just after 6 p.m. on a report of a domestic incident between two parties.

Fuqua said that when officers arrived, there was a dog present at the scene.

At some point during the investigation, Fuqua said the dog had some type of interaction with the officers, causing at least one officer to fire their weapon.

According to Fuqua, the officer was trying to shoot the dog, but accidentally struck both the dog and another officer.

On Wednesday, the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center said the dog was taken to an after-hours emergency veterinary hospital for evaluation, but it was humanely euthanized due to the extent of its injuries.

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Victoria Lee’s family says she was experiencing a mental health crisis in the early morning hours of July 28, 2024, when police broke down the front door of their apartment and shot Lee as she approached them with a knife in her hand.

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The Lee family lawsuit accuses Fort Lee police of excessive force, warrantless entry, and civil conspiracy, and alleges Lee’s killing represents a violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. It says the borough’s dispatch policy automatically sends multiple armed officers to any call involving an “emotionally disturbed person” with no option to send a mental health expert, while medical calls receive paramedics and no police officers. That policy denied Lee an opportunity to obtain the same result provided to callers without mental health disabilities who seek assistance from 911, the complaint says.

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Lee’s brother called 911 just after 1 a.m. the day of the shooting and requested an ambulance to take her to a mental health clinic (she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016), according to the complaint. Lee’s brother said she was having a “mental breakdown,” the complaint says.

The dispatcher told him an ambulance and officer would be sent, the complaint states, but the brother said he believed “police would only make things worse.” When her brother called a second time, he mentioned Lee was holding a knife but not threatening anyone with it, and the dispatcher said the request for authorities could not be canceled.

Archived at https://archive.ph/b3WON

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alternative video upload: https://streamable.com/e/u68zc6

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Watch at 15:16 where the police literally conspire with a CEO to arrest a person under fabricated circumstances.

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71892194

So upsetting that this keeps happening to autistic adults!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49119147

alternative video upload: https://streamable.com/e/noif73

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People often make the argument against the abolition of police that they're only a problem in the US and some other shitholes, so I'd like to educate myself about the police problem in Europe as well. Most such books are focused on the US.

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“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman said to Elser, according to Ring doorbell footage of the Sept. 27 encounter viewed by The Colorado Sun.

Then on Oct. 15, more than two weeks after Milliman showed up at her door, she got an email from Chief Bret Cottrell, congratulating her on her detective work and announcing that Columbine police had dismissed the charges against her.

“After reviewing the evidence you have provided (nicely done btw), we have voided the summons we issued,” Cottrell wrote to Elser in an email.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/

Result: nothing

https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/12/opinion-colorado-automatic-license-plate-readers-legislation/

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