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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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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How long was he collecting ammunition? Did he buy a box on payday once in a while for a few years, or did he go out to Walmart and buy everything he used?
Everyone seems to assume that this guy found out he'd be evicted and he immediately went and bought a rifle and 20,000 rounds of ammunition that evening. Bullets don't go bad, he probably bought them over a few years.
Not sure that's much better. I've accumulated 15,000 rounds of ammo that I've not used but I need more... how about 20,000 rounds??
Someone accumulating that amount of ammo "just in case" has probably got some other issues.
Lots of people have lots of bullets. Not saying they aren't crazy, but if they are then there's a fuck ton of heavily armed crazy people... Ok yeah actually that checks out.
They're a sensitive group too. Very trigger happy with the downvotes.
If instead of buying guns with your paycheck for years, you plopped it in an index fund, perhaps rent wouldn't seem so out of reach.
Edit: if you click the links within the articles and keep going, you find out he got evicted because he's a SovCit who refused payments and wanted to fight the gov
You apparently have more time than I to research every random weirdo in the news. Good job.
Yeah I travel a lot for work and 3 news articles is not what I would call "heavy reading"
Perhaps you'd be less busy if you weren't working retail at a gun store.
Lol, insult a job I don't even have, want to try again?
Sure I'll insult lots of jobs! People who work in CAD are cads!
So? If you can't pay your rent and face eviction you sell that shit, you don't start shooting people doing their fucking job.
Gun nuts are the first to speak about individual responsibility but when it's their turn to face their responsibilities you can be sure of one thing, they ain't facing them without a fight!
This guy was a sovereign citizen, so the worst of the worst kind of crazy.
Didn't see that mentioned elsewhere in the thread, and it's a big fucking detail to leave out.