If Socialists have their way we're going to Lose ALL OUR COPS because we Won't let them STEAL our Money anymore! Why would anyone become a Cop if they can't STEAL our MONEY?
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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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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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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Don't forget their favorite passtime: blowing a hole through Fido's face as the kids watch their beloved family dog die slowly while howling in pain!
“Hah Timmy, guess your stupid little ass ain’t getting grandmas crisp 20 dollar bill for your birthday this year! Better luck next year you 7 year old sack of shit!” -American cops, probably.
Little Timmy would have probably spent it on drugs anyway. That there's drug money!
It's a legal cartel
Remember friends, use the USPS for all your criminal transport needs.
Yeah, there's a reason they do this with PRIVATE shipment hubs and not USPS hubs.
What do the dogs do with all that money?
Buy Scooby Snacks
...when i was growing up waaay back in the depths of the twentieth century, standard protocol was never to send cash: check, money order, or COD only...in my grandparents' generation, stamps were also often accepted as legal tender!..
...does anyone even do cash-on-delivery anymore?..i never used it but i feel like i haven't seen mention in thirty years...
...so anyway, we had an onion on our belt, which was the style at the time, and my point is that not sending cash is nothing new...i guess the idea back then was that sending cash either risked loss/theft or facilitated illicit commerce; i never really figured out which...
...is sending cash any different now?..
Sure, but "sending cash is risky" is different than "if you send cash police will legally steal it."
...that's a fair point and civil forfeiture for carrying cash on your person is a thing now, too...
Here's a startling fact: Roughly 90 percent of the dollar bills in circulation in the U.S. have been shown to contain cocaine residue.
So they just steal 90% of the moneys for no reason, cool cool.
edit No wait i was stupid, they just sniff for cash, not drugs, and just keep 100%