THE POLICE PROBLEM

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days ago

How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby? [Copaganda]

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How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby? [Copaganda]

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days ago

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BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

Mother of 1-year-old shot by officer in Senatobia, Mississippi, gives her account of fatal shooting

www.localmemphis.com

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Mother of 1-year-old shot by officer in Senatobia, Mississippi, gives her account of fatal shooting

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BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 16 days ago

Fascist paramilitary invaders assault and threaten New Yorkers then back off when the realize they are being recorded (College Point, NY 06/16/2026)

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Fascist paramilitary invaders assault and threaten New Yorkers then back off when the realize they are being recorded (College Point, NY 06/16/2026)

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 16 days ago

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grue@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Innocent Man’s Case Seeking to Hold Federal Agents Accountable for Brutalizing Him More Than a Decade Ago

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Innocent Man’s Case Seeking to Hold Federal Agents Accountable for Brutalizing Him More Than a Decade Ago

grue@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 17 days ago

ICE is operating more facilities then they have admitted publicly. Many of these facility’s are not meant to accommodate anybody for “detention”.

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ICE is operating more facilities then they have admitted publicly. Many of these facility’s are not meant to accommodate anybody for “detention”.

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 17 days ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 18 days ago

This Cop Scanned A Woman's License Plate 179 Times And Somehow That Was Allowed

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This Cop Scanned A Woman's License Plate 179 Times And Somehow That Was Allowed

VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 18 days ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 22 days ago

16-Year-Old Walmart Employee Was Arrested After Refusing to Return Her Vest Following Termination — Bodycam Footage Has X Divided

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16-Year-Old Walmart Employee Was Arrested After Refusing to Return Her Vest Following Termination — Bodycam Footage Has X Divided

VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 22 days ago

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HailSeitan@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

www.404media.co

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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

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HailSeitan@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 23 days ago

Trump’s ex-border chief exploring 2028 run and hopes to deport one-third of America

www.independent.co.uk

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Trump’s ex-border chief exploring 2028 run and hopes to deport one-third of America

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 23 days ago

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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish · 24 days ago

Jail staff served toothless man chicken instead of required 'soft diet,' then watched him choke to death, ignored 'frantic pleas' from inmates to save him: Lawsuit

lawandcrime.com

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Jail staff served toothless man chicken instead of required 'soft diet,' then watched him choke to death, ignored 'frantic pleas' from inmates to save him: Lawsuit

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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish · 24 days ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 28 days ago

Jury awards Iowa man $105,000 after wrongful DUI detention

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Jury awards Iowa man $105,000 after wrongful DUI detention

VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 28 days ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 28 days ago

Newly-released bigoted [Massachusetts State] police texts are ‘significant problem for the whole commonwealth’ -

www.masslive.com

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Newly-released bigoted [Massachusetts State] police texts are ‘significant problem for the whole commonwealth’ -

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 28 days ago

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 28 days ago

NJ cop stole journalist's camera gear at Delaney Hall protest, AG says

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NJ cop stole journalist's camera gear at Delaney Hall protest, AG says

CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 28 days ago

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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish · 30 days ago

Everything We Know About the Cop Who Allegedly Pulled a Gun Because Someone Microwaved Fish at Work

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Everything We Know About the Cop Who Allegedly Pulled a Gun Because Someone Microwaved Fish at Work

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish · 30 days ago

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 1 month ago

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests. That’s not their job

www.theguardian.com

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Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests. That’s not their job

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CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish · 1 month ago

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 1 month ago

Officer arrested after allegedly pointing firearm at fellow cop over microwaved fish: Warrant

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Officer arrested after allegedly pointing firearm at fellow cop over microwaved fish: Warrant

VetOfTheSeas@discuss.onlineEnglish · 1 month ago

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month ago

After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

theintercept.com

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After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month ago

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace - New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead

www.inquirer.com

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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace - New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.world

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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

① Real-life decorum is expected. Please don’t say things only a child or a jackass would say in person.

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.

④ Please don’t dox or post calls for harassment, vigilantism, tar & feather attacks, etc.

Please also abide by the instance rules.

It you’ve been banned but don’t know why, check the moderator’s log. If you feel you didn’t deserve it, hey, I’m new at this and maybe you’re right. Send a cordial PM, for a second chance.

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ALLIES

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• r/BadCopNoDonut/

• Randy Balko

• The Civil Rights Lawyer

• The Honest Courtesan

• Identity Project

• MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

• A demonstrator’s guide to understanding riot munitions

• Adultification

• Cops aren’t supposed to be smart

• Don’t talk to the police.

• 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

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

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