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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Why does the article give a street address??? Wtf?
Well, it's only fair we make the judge's address public too!
Home addresses are not private information.
Drop your home address then.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC
Confirmed, Joe Biden is a Beta male.
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1060 West Addison
If you know who he is IRL easy enough to find. But you know when are on a semi anonymous board so...
So you agree it's private?
Your mom's house
I would consider them to be private information.
So what? They aren't.
In the Netherlands at least it is considered personal private information by law. It is in many other jurisdictions as well, including the US actually. Just because few people take the steps to protect it doesn't make it any less personal nor private information.
Addresses are public record.
Information that is public record isn't private.
Public ≠ private
Do you see how that works?
Also,
I get it, they're called the nether lands because they are far away from—and not relevant to—what's being discussed: Kentucky.
The amount of people who don't understand this is insane to me. "But you can find it easily." Does that make it okay to just broadcast to everyone? 🙄
What do you get out of being deliberately obtuse?
Saying your address is public information is being deliberately obtuse. Share yours right fucking now if you disagree. If you don't share it, you agree they're different.
I don't feel like it, go get a phone book and look it up yourself, or go to my local City Hall and find out there. Because it's a matter of public record.
I can't help but notice you haven't given your name and city. Could it be because you prefer to keep them private?
You know there's a distinction between free speech in the legal and moral sense? "I want my privacy" and "That is private information" are also distinct. This is obvious. Stop being deliberately obtuse, everyone sees through it.
I don't think it's being obtuse to be shocked they're just putting people's addresses in a news article when it's not relevant. That's not being obtuse. I very clearly mean the "want my privacy" sense. You're the one who brought up "that is private information." 🙄 But you're accusing me of being obtuse.
I was being kind. It's also possible that you're just a dumbass, which is looking increasingly likely.
It's not private though you know you can look up people by name on-sites. Can find whoever purchased any house you want. And we used to have things called phone books
Drop you name, phone number, and address then!
All of those are information people voluntarily submit. It is fairly trivial to make sure your address is no longer findable like that.
they used to be published in books you know? it's generally a thing that can be searched easily if you have someone's name and municipality.
That has as far as I know always been a very optional thing.
What people publish online themselves of course becomes public.
You can still look up people's addresses if you know which websites to use. Most municipalities offer it as an online service. Your address is hardly as hard to find as you'd think - it takes some doing, and knowing the right websites, but you can do it pretty easy.
And you can go look up who owns the houses in city halls. All the information is open to the public.