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
If the cops had their shit together, they would have killed him dead and avoided this whole mess.
(And no one can tell me they don't talk shit like that in the locker room.)
That doesn’t seem enough to cover medical bills, let alone living expenses, especially after legal fees.
wtf America.. imagine getting shot, being awarded more than 2mil. Dollars compensation and then still not having enough to live.
Attorneys get a third, then medical bills (which are probably more than the payout, I just saw my friend’s bills from a minor car accident that totaled 23k, and that was just a CT scan and a couple of x-rays, at an in-and-out urgent care facility), and living expenses in South LA? Idk, it seems short.
His shooting [...] was one of at least 38 in the last five years in which LAPD officers opened fire on someone who ended up being unarmed
So on average, more than 7 unarmed people get shot by police each year, in Los Angeles alone, never mind the whole country!?
Any cop who mistakes a phone for a gun, even once, should be disqualified from being a cop anywhere else in the future.
Oh let's wait for the appeal and then they give the officer a medal.
They don't need to appeal, the money's coming out of the city's budget and the cops don't get held personally responsible. And the fiscal conservatives are somehow fine with this very inefficient arrangement.
These people are trained around weapons. How could they perform in their occupation so poorly.
Because their training is a few weeks long and it's mostly centered around training them that everyone is trying to kill them.
They're doing exactly what they were trained to do.