Cops realizing that the police state can come for them too will never not be funny to me.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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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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• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
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• 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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"we attacked the public of our city to protect the ice agents, and our union issued a statement in full support of ice and their tactics, but now they're hurting the wrong people!"
Okay, so now that ICE is attacking you, MPD, are you actually going to do your job to protect the people of Minneapolis and arrest the federal goons who are disturbing the peace?
Pigs getting pigged
Quiet Piggy... go DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
Oh, the irony, of police officers being hassled and having guns pulled on them because of the color of their skin.
Yeah, I'm torn between thankful that they are acknowledging the problem and sad that it takes being personally affected to get there.
Same with regretful MAGA voters with faces all leopard eaten...like, glad you had a change of heart, but seriously fuck you.
Hmm.. I wonder how long it’ll be before people start dressing like ice, but not to do robberies, to harass police until they change tune about the whole thing..
I mean if that’s what it takes, I think people will pick up on that pretty quickly.. that’s going to get messy..
If those pigs had done their jobs to begin with this would be a problem. But no they dont give a fuck until it affects them. Fuck those pigs.
BEND THOSE ACAB KNEES!! Ur piggy orange baby god has convinced you to be loyal to the wrong things.
Cops supports this fascist shit. Cops have choices, the same as the governed have.
Every ACAB that just "does thier job" benefitting from the machine that crushes humans, you. Are. A. Bastard.
Cops lie with impunity not following the same laws that govern the people. Cops have what no other profession have, qualified immunity, a lazy, and unconstitutional legal device to keep accountability specifically away from. Theost deadly citizens around.
Police are a gang, raping individuals of property, valuables, liberty and at times Thier own bodily agency through rape. AND THEY ARE IGNORED FOR IT.
So yeah. There are no good cops, there might be a human an off duty human that acts like fellow citzen, but they are not, they are part of a ruling class bludgeon. 1 cop occasionally doing the right thing is no answer to the broad systemic issues in American law enforcement, and no, it's not the best option in the world, you fucking ape. TRAVEL.