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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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• r/ACAB
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• 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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You're rooting for people who break and enter in occupied dwellings instead of a person defending their home, on a post about the cops showing up and shooting the homeowner who was struggling against a home invader attacking them with a knife? Ooooook.
Rooting, no, nor did I say so
However I do hope you have a look at realistic stats on gun ownership, namely that you are in an attempt to compensate for your insecurities making yourself and anyone who lives with you more likely to die. Depending on your age and ethnicity (I'm going to assume 20s and white for now), when you enter your 40s or 50s you are much more likely to use that gun on your temple or as an edible than you are to "defend your home".
So...yeah, I hope people like you don't have kids unless you can sort your emotions out and be a logical adult.
Tired old body shaming won't get me to surrender to home invaders, sorry but anyone with half a brain can see right through that shameful tactic. Furthermore "People with gun more likely to kill self with gun than people without gun" duh, and people in water more likely to drown than people in the desert, but
A) Don't shoot yourself. Problem solved.
B) If I really wanted to die and didn't have a gun, I have a half gallon of nicotine suspended in VG I could drink, a bottle of tylenol I could take, and a half bottle of 100 proof whiskey I could polish off on the train tracks within a 5 min walk of me. "Not having a gun" isn't what's gonna stop me from killing myself "not wanting to kill myself" is a lot more effective.
So yeah, mind your own business.
I don't know what body shaming you're referring to, but a mentally unstable person who imagines non-existent threats and loves guns isn't great. Please stay away from schools.
Just quit while you're behind lol.
So imagined completely fabricated body shaming (literally no idea where you came up with this since nothing in my post mentions your body) and imagined superiority. Plus guns. Great combo. Hopefully we get lucky and you don't shoot anyone but maybe people closer to you will red flag you.
Keep pretending that "insecurities" isn't a reference to the most hack, common joke when people want to deride gun owners all you want, but it's entirely transparent. I really don't care lol, I'm not the mad one here you are, I'm laughing at you.
I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. This conversation is so bizarre. I'm not laughing, in part because you seem like you actually might murder someone and in part because you're just...not really a good communicator.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh you think I care about your penis!
I mean the fact youre so sensitive about it and spent literally days being butthurt...does imply something. But no, when I said insecurities originally I meant your more literal insecurities, like you're clearly a little bitch who is afraid of the world, snuggling next to your gun like a security blanket for a 4 year old. Nothing about your penis, dude, as small as you seem to be worried it is.
If it helps, there's an ancient (circa 2005 or so) very supportive xkcd for that. Penises are in general quite small.
Honestly realizing this is what you've been so butthurt about the last few days is fucking hilarious. Talk about sad.
Yes yes "now's the part where I pretend to get it." Sure bud. I've "spent days" living my life, you keep perpetuating this nonsense as if anyone else cares about your baseless accusations. I get notifications with dumb things you say and I respond, it's not that deep lmao, calm down. "You're clearly a little bitch" and I'm the unstable angry guy here? I hope you get the help you need dude.
Lol you're so paranoid. Please get help before you shoot someone over an imagined slight. There's simple pills you can take once a day to help with your instability.
Since it's not possible to put too fine a point on it I'll say once more:
You are mentally ill.
Please seek help before you hurt yourself or others.
Lol dude you're trying way too hard.