THE POLICE PROBLEM
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
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There's more guns than people because some people have a LOT of guns. They're not evenly distributed.
We need to start having the cats bring guns with them when they go choose new owners, to spread the guns more fairly.
To back you up 22% of Americans own guns... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownership-america-firearms-super-owners
Also here is an interesting map related to the subject.
It kind of makes you wonder why they aren't doing these heavy invasions in red states. Not that I think they are off the table, moreso they need a form of martial law first.
where are these statistics from? because the leftists i know only admit they have firearms to their closest friends and allies.
Tbh I am surprised how low it is in Texas but maybe that has changed since 2016 because they relaxed laws since then.
I am not, big cities and the land is really rural. Hard to balance out all the people in cities. Also remember that map is "ownership" per household. They could have the exact same percentage of household ownership as New Mexico, but each household might have 10x the number of guns.
Texas has far stricter gun laws than most people would think. Which is to say they have gun laws.
Texas gun law: "A loaded pistol in every pot!"
I prefer Vermont's "A loaded rifle with every ounce of pot!"
I don't know why people think guns are a magic bullet (ha!) that will keep you safe from the gestapo. As soon as ICE thugs get shot, the real military will be sent in to crack down, and they have far more firepower than any civilian.
I guess if they want to start using heavy ordinances, armed drones, etc.
In reality some of these militia groups have basically the same guns, same training and same equipment as the military. All it takes is someone with an FFL 9 or higher and they have access to all types of explosive weaponry.
The major advantages of the military are numbers, transportation logistics and communications. If you control communications you control the battlefield.
Unfortunately most of these groups are ICE as their day jobs... But it gets dangerous when it gets too close to their neighborhoods.
I got CDSd today (sorry, no gun) and if my house's cat population wasn't at the fire code limit I'd have brought her home so she can die loved. Instead, I have her some loves and affection on the rip of her head, the only spot without fur so matted I was scared to touch her. That I couldn't do anything real for her broke my tiny heart.
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