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
This reads like an Onion headline. Insane to see that we’re tasing children.
this is so, so sad. this crap will only be used nefariously. why would you send your kid to a school that does this?
why would you send your kid to a school that does this?
Because the only other option is homeschooling, and you work two and half jobs to get by, so you don't have time for that.
It's illegal not to
The level of just utterly batshit insanity they'll go to just to avoid doing anything to actually help people. I mean god forbid we just improve the fucking standard of living to reduce unrest, no, as you said, they'll start tasing children instead. Fucking literally.
But not removing cops from the school? They have many other ways to injure minors without these gloves.
The idea is to prevent shootings, instead they bully the students and hide if there's a shooter.
Heh, in my city the idea is to give favored cops access to overtime pay.
Can’t get rid of the cops. How would they arrest all the black kids for just existing?
Everyone should be teaching their kids that cops are dangerous and should be avoided, like people of color have been doing for decades, but we wouldn't listen.
Police? In schools?
Because of woke.
I don’t understand how anyone could read this and not think anything other than how fucking evil it is
“Less than lethal doesn’t mean low risk,” Trump said.
No, not that Trump. Obviously.
Clearly the only solution here is to issue each child their own protective shock gloves so they can tase the SRO who tased them.