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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As much as I love pointing out policing issues in this country, this isn’t really one of them. A ton of diesel owners delete their DEF system. The article mentioned a horse power and torque gain that “isn’t actually proven” but that’s never what a deleted emissions system has been for. It’s always been an issue of reliability and cost long term. A lot of diesels use to be incredibly reliable, and would go for 100s of thousands of miles. Today most owners are ditching them after the first 100k because of costs. I personally know of one company that works on diesel motors that had fleets of diesel trucks and switched to gas because maintenance on them had become far too expensive and frequent.
It’s also not like AR has any CARB law making them do bi-annual inspections for emission systems. I’ll bet if I looked in AR for diesel trucks 7/10 would be deleted and say so in the post. This guy just happens to be a sheriff.
I work on this sort of truck for a living. The emissions shit on these things is a nightmare. There's always something else, it's always expensive, it's typically a huge pain in the ass to fix. I'm all for the environment, but I understand why a tune and delete is a common thing. I wouldn't personally buy a newer diesel unless it was absolutely necessary.
Sidenote: I'm not big on trucks. I don't think most of them are used anywhere near their potential. I would get an electric station wagon if I could afford one and there were more options.
Ps. Fuck Ford.
I'd love to see an electric Subaru Outback (or similar) someday. That might be about the only thing that could convince me to trade my perfectly fine Outback in for something electric anytime remotely in the near future. Longevity, hauling capacity, towing capacity (on the 3.6R model, anyway), AWD. Perfect, except for the gas mileage.
https://www.subaru.com/vehicles/solterra.html
Check it out. They're roughly the same size.
Thanks for sharing. First I've heard of it (ah, the joys of not seeing TV commercials).
Doesn't look like it can compete with the Outback yet, especially at that price, but I'm glad to see they're working on it. Maybe a few years from now I will upgrade after all.
I would point out that the Solterra is an SUV rather than a wagon--it has dramatically less storage capacity and my giant dogs wouldn't fit in it as well as they do in the Outback. I also like the wagon length of the Outback so I can haul most things without having to rent a truck. It doesn't have the same towing capacity, either, which could be problematic for someone with a boat, like me.
Anyway, the Solterra is not quite there, but it looks promising. I'll check the options again in a few years. I certainly wouldn't be buying anything without a few years of history to know if it's reliable, anyway. I don't like to be a beta tester unless we're talking computer games.