this post was submitted on 26 May 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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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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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Can someone who speaks Spanish help? It sounds like they're shouting "la mia". I don't know much Spanish, but I don't think that means "food".

Edit: I think they're saying "comida", which means "meal".

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We must ask the Nazis nicely to close these down, and when they refuse we must make our signs even more strongly worded! Harming concentration camp guards is always unconscionable no matter how many people of saves!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 59 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Very similar, but before loosing weight:

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Totally different! ICE was at least kind enough to install fire sprinklers and a smoke detector!

I hope the /s isn't required, but just in case...

/s

[–] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 23 points 3 days ago

nazis, of any nationality need to be shot like kristi noems dog

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago

Just the US doing US things.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago
[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So it’s not a hunger strike?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Several hunger strikes are happening in various concentration camps. The most notable is the one happening now at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ.

As you might imagine, it is hard for abductees to communicate between concentration camps. Also, I'm sure not everyone is participating, pregnant women might decide to eat.

Some people are just not being fed or refuse food contaminated with insect larvae and rocks amongst other things.

The key takeaway is that the concentration camps in America have terrible conditions and should be abolished.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The key takeaway is that the concentration camps in America have terrible conditions and should be abolished.

Gods, I wish this was something that didn’t even need saying. It hasn’t even been 100 years.

It’s hard to like this world.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It hasn’t even been 100 years.

... since America's previous concentration camps.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

We've ALWAYS had concentration camps. Jails, prisons, correctional institutions, etc. have always been sources of unpaid, unfair, cruel labor.

When we get rid of every single fucking prison, we get rid of concentration camps.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago

No, since the last big "concentration camps are bad actually" event that pretty much everyone in the west agreed upon, until we let nazis out in public without beating the fuck out of them.

Of course the U.S. has had concentration camps for ages at this point, and for some reason there's a whole bunch of people thinking that's perfectly fine, when there are still people alive today who lived through that bullshit in Europe.

We should actually just torch anyone who thinks concentration camps are in any way acceptable.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Good that Obama closed Guantanamo, it was the first thing he would do if elected.
That country has been rotting for a long time.
Even now they're doing nothing about it.
Just look at Palestine.
These things happen again and again if they let it happen.

There are lots of hunger strikes going, but i think a lot of them are like because the food is so bad, so it's like they don't wanna eat the food that makes them sick. So it's a good question, it is a hunger strike but also they're not being given good food.