• @Soggy
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      1316 months ago

      Because cops are the violent arm of the ruling class, and it’s convenient for them to be immune to legal consequence.

        • @SmilingSolaris
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          436 months ago

          Hi. Former prison guard here. It turns out that as a cop you can dictate the reality going forward. Just say what you wanted to happen and everyone with authority will say that’s what happened.

        • SeedyOne
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          216 months ago

          Enforcement and accountability barely exist these days and you think those are going to work on police? The same police working every day with the very same officers, judges and prosecutors that would investigate them?

          Tell me another fairy tale…

        • @hydrospanner
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          166 months ago

          …okay…and if the police are breaking the laws, who upholds the laws they’re breaking?

          • @isles
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            156 months ago

            Look, we just need more police, obviously. /s

            • @lugal
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              96 months ago

              The only thing that works against a bad cop is a good cop. Except there ain’t no good cops. Police is inherently not reformable.
              #defundthepolice

            • @mojofrododojo
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              26 months ago

              I mean, if we massively increased the number of officers we might actually be able to police the police.

              who watches the watchmen?

          • @GoosLife
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            Independent police complaint authority, authorized by the government, but run entirely by people from the community. There is a legal department there who handles cases, paid for through taxes. If you have any relationship to anyone on the force, you’re ineligible to serve, and no one can handle a case that concerns anyone they know.

            It works in my country, but I am aware that doesn’t mean we can translate the solution 1:1 to the US, so I’d be interested to know why you guys think this would or wouldn’t work.

            It is not a perfect system that will solve all problems immediately. There are thousands of daily cases of harassment and abuse of power on a small scale that might end in the big pile and take forever to process. But it will effectively solve a lot of cases - fx cases about covering badge numbers and turning off body cams. These will be open and shut cases, and the punishments will be decided by the Independent Police Complaint Authority, meaning no bullshit paid vacation. Also cases in general that have an obvious outcome to the public, such as unnecessary police brutality and excessive force would probably be handled better by an independent authority.

            • @AngryCommieKender
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              206 months ago

              Every time one of these oversight committees gets set up in the US, the local police Union infiltrates it and prevents it from doing anything.

              • rhsJack
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                106 months ago

                OR the police union just litigates any punitive damages against one of their own and off they go, scot free.

        • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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          66 months ago

          Last I checked, a piece of paper with words on it can’t carry a gun or force someone into handcuffs.

        • @Phegan
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          46 months ago

          Laws have had little luck stopping police from doing whatever the fuck they want

        • @captainlezbian
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          36 months ago

          What enforcement mechanisms will we use? Cops already break laws regularly

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Why do you think body cam was introduced? Pigs do shady shit when no ones watching and they don’t want to be identified when they do.