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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RULES
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② If you're here to support the police, you're trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.
③ Saying ~~cops~~ ANYONE should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They're about killing people; we're not.
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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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Who cares? Cops can't plant evidence. End of story.
If they did, even if the rest of the bust was legitimate, the entire thing goes out the window. If they had an actual reason to arrest him, they should have followed procedure and the law rather than going around trying to plant evidence.
That user is a straight-up Nazi. Look at their comment history:
Even has the fucking 88.
I completely missed that...thank you for pointing it out :).
[Homer backing into the bushes meme.]
It does make it a little less interesting if the driver was actually drunk imo
AKA, Dick Dastardly Stops To Cheat.
There is a video of an officer planting evidence. That should be the end of the story. But for you it is not.
You trying to control the debate shapiro-style. You create a fictional story, first in conditionals ("if they suspected ... then they had every reason"), and by asking questions ("Did he refuse a breathalyzer test at the scene? Was one offered?"). Now there is a vivid image in the readers head, that you use to derail the discussion into a completely different direction ("Bottom line here: What was this man’s blood alcohol level?").
But the counter to this is very simple: Instead of following your tangent, I will simply un-derail the topic by asking something like:
"Why do you think the officer felt the need to plant evidence?"
I strongly recommend the youtube series "the altright playbook" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ
Just for giggles I also asked GPT4 oppinion on the subject. His response
She’s not going to read any of that because she’s a white supremacist as evidenced by her comments on this post.
ETA: She came here when her Reddit account got suspended: Another Redditor accused me of not knowing my blood type, before trying to accuse me of being a blood type that doesn’t even exist. This is what it looks like to prove your blood type to a bully.
Then there’s this:
CW: extreme violence
And this:
CW: extreme violence
Stupid Nazi says stupid things
you mean the shapiro thing? I actually thought you intentionally used a shapiro-style argument. I didn't think you'd take it as an insult.
Now this is a much more interesting line of thought. It doesn't rely on reframing and red herrings. Instead this arguments directly attacks the central point. This is much better.
I recommend not continuing to feed the racist troll.
The trick is not to follow their tangents. They hate it when you point out their fallacies and rhethoric trickery.
Rule 2. If you're here to support the police, you're trolling.
Can I plant a nazi sign on you, say you're a nazi and then have prove your innocence?
Ahh. The "If it's after 1945, it's not naziism, it's sparkling fascism" defense.
Nothing in this article, or my comments, has anything to do with Nazis. I think you should seek mental health care.
Weird insult, but alright.
So it looks like you have some trouble understanding how conversation works. Someone accused you of being a nazi. A bit out of left field if you aren't digging through someone's comment history. Your defense to that was to say it was not World War 2. The topic at hand is whether or not you are a nazi and your defense is that it's not World War 2. Not "I am not a nazi", but the go to neonazi defense of "umm actually the nazi party was dissolved in 1945". It's just sad.
The women can't be Nazis defense, that's a bold move. Since you're describing all the things you are that makes it impossible to be a Nazi, do you happen to be 36 years old as well? Or is the 88 in your name just your favorite number for some other reason?
I haven’t turned 36 yet. I will soon. There is an 88 in my name because I was born in 1988. There is also a dragon in my username because 1988 is year of the dragon. Are you done attacking me? Sorry you’re looking for a Nazi. I’m not here to fit your fetish.
Ok nazi
How funny, I have so many men leaving me their frustrated comments, in which they call me a Nazi. I seem to attract a lot of men who are looking for a Nazi. You should find yourself a different subreddit.
what makes you think you know anyone else's gender on the Internet? why should anyone believe you're female? on the Internet, non one knows you are a dog
Those mean, stupid men's! 😾
I've explained this to you in another thread, Nazi is an ideology. ANYONE can be a Nazi. Male/Female/Cathololic/German/Not German or otherwise.
Rule 2.
Source? This certainly applies if the container has been previously opened, but an unopened, sealed container should be fine.
Yeah, if it was opened, it definitely should not have been in the vehicle, without being stored in a locked glovebox, or trunk, according to Florida law.
You don't need to be a Nazi
States do not have a law stating where alcohol is to be transported.
MOST states have laws regarding open containers.
Rule 2 - Removed.
And was he charged with “open container”? The defense attorney says they describe the container as open in the police report, if that’s true, and if the bottle really was sealed when the officer found it, then it’s misconduct despite the specific charges.
Yes when they turned off their body cameras it was interfering which is an additional crime to planting the evidence and the cops should be charged every time unless a third party unaffiliated with the police or courts can verify there was a valid reason to stop documenting the arrest.
Btw the sealed bottle is heard breaking when the police open it in the linked video in the article at 1:05 you silly billy.
What does the contents of the cup have to do with the cops breaking the seal and reporting it as open. That's not a typo that's misrepresenting the facts aka lying, an example of a typo is writing contets instead of contents not reporting the sealed bottle was open. From that point the report is suspect because we already know they were lying based on the video evidence.
And then on top of that turning off their bodycams to prevent saving further evidence of their crimes? It could be a cup full of lighter fluid and the cops still broke the law and tried to cover it up.
You sure are bending over backward trying to defend cops caught falsifying evidence and to paint the suspect in a bad light.
Rule 2 - If you're supporting the police here, you're trolling. Comment removed.
The fact of the matter is the driver had no open alcohol in the vehicle until the officer placed it there.
"wait, Im racist against all black people and I have an opinion about this black person. I promise its not because he's black"
Well, I’m sorry you’re racist, but placing your statement of such views in a comment reply to my own comment, is not the place to discuss it. I suggest you find a therapist.
There is a lot of bullshit here... NAL, but you can make a case that they intended to drink, or if they had a non-0 BAC, you can make a case that they were too impaired to drive. While the 0.08% limit is a "standard", it's not a hard and fast line, from what I'm aware of, but NAL. I would assume it'd be hard as shit to make a case that someone was too impaired with a BAC of 0.01%... But that doesn't mean you can't try.
You’re literally arguing that they could drink it, so they were intending to drink it? Do you have any knives in your house? Shall we call the authorities because you could murder someone, and therefore intend to murder someone?
I think my intention got mixed up here. I think it's all bullshit. But essentially what you said is closer to how the law is written.
To be totally clear, the ruling that an officers assessment of someone being impaired is taken as highly, if not higher, as an objective BAC here, is bullshit. It basically means that if they think you are drunk, you are drunk. That's insane to me.
I had a former cop explain to me once that he had an absolutely fool proof test involving tilting sometimes head and seeing if their retinas jiggle or something. I kinda assumed that it was bullshit, but if he thought that was the case, then he had the "right" to issue a DUI.
My point is that the BAC being really low is not an instant case closed in the way that it should be. Which is highlighting just how ridiculous things can get in these cases and still go to court.
In this case, it shouldn't even go to court.
Riley shouldn't go to court but every one of those cops certainly should.