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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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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What the fuck is a '16-year-old employee'???
Child labor that people jump to defend because it somehow normalized.
There is nothing wrong with a 16 year old having a job. The problem is that they are only paid minimum wage, by a company owned by three of the Top 10 wealthiest people in America.
Agreed, a teenager should have the rights to work - that means, along side their studies if they desire. Saying otherwise, is abuse, not the other way around - that's because they are not children but soon to be adults (teenagers), that are expected to have some experience in the world.
Like you said the real problem is the ageism which causes poor pay - discrimination is the key here. This is what we should focus on, solidarity and work conditions of all workers regardless of age.
They also pay taxes without the right to vote. I'm in favor of kids working because I think occupation is fun and healthy, but labor is married to exploitation in current society.
If the conditions are good (they are not), then I can agree it's okay.
However, I have another question. Why on earth would a 16-year-old want to work? Maybe some of them are curious and wanted to give it a try. But I'd wager the answer to most cases is that they need money badly.
No family should be in a situation where a child has to help support the household financially, even occasionally.
I'll have to disagree with you - since this is not particularly true everywhere. You're forgetting that teenagers are also people - they have needs and wants. This doesn't necessarily mean they have a whole family to support but maybe themselves, their hobbies, or even other things that dont mean the whole family is in financial trouble.
Self reliance is an important topic within teenage years, and supporting teenagers while they become less financially reliant on parents is important. At the end the objective is to support themselves, and buy whatever the hell they want without judgement.
A teenager who was employed by that store? Its pretty self-explanatory.
A 16 year old employee. Or simply, an employee.
Discrimination isnt helping no one, the problem is unfair treatment of workers.