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ByteOnBikes to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 days ago

Since ICE refuses to show their badge and cops refuse to verify, welcome to the future.

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Since ICE refuses to show their badge and cops refuse to verify, welcome to the future.

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ByteOnBikes to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 days ago
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  • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19•18 hours ago

    Fuck this imperial terrorism propaganda. USA is the actual terror regime. Get a clue, libs.

    • GreenBottles
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      19•18 hours ago

      Why would you direct this at libs when the right are the ones going batshit crazy?

      • @lev@slrpnk.net
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        12•17 hours ago

        Leftists do not like libs. Many leftists believe that liberals contribute to setting up the breeding ground that fascists rise from. Many leftists believe that liberals partake in a system that even allows for fascism to rise.

        I do not care to explain further. Research can be done, or perhaps someone else with a bit more energy than I right now can jump in :)

        • GreenBottles
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          1•17 hours ago

          deleted by creator

      • Disaffected Scorpio
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        3•15 hours ago

        https://philadelphiaycl.substack.com/p/what-people-mean-when-they-say-liberalism

      • @nomy@lemmy.zip
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        2•17 hours ago

        Some people want to place blame to absolve themselves of any responsibility they may have.

        “Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not my problem, just the countries.”

      • @Iceman@lemmy.world
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        Liberals haven’t lost their minds and can be talked to obviously.

    • @Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      8•18 hours ago

      Far Right wing (Republicans) literally having full control of everything

      Blames only the libs

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        Internationally, most people mean the pro-corporate anti-regulation right when they say liberals. It’s exclusively a U.S. thing afaik to equate liberalism with anything left of center, which causes a lot of confusion.

        • @Lumisal@lemmy.world
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          That doesn’t change what I said. There’s fascism in power now in the USA, not liberals anymore. That’s why I specified far right rather than standard right.

    • @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      the libs know about it, they helped set it up.

    • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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      How about both

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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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ALLIES

• !abolition@slrpnk.net

• !acab@lemmygrad.ml

• r/ACAB

• r/BadCopNoDonut/

• Randy Balko

• The Civil Rights Lawyer

• The Honest Courtesan

• Identity Project

• MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

• A demonstrator’s guide to understanding riot munitions

• 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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ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• NAACP

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

 

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