This is something serial killers do.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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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.
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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.
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Serial killers decreased as policing militarized. There's a variety of sociological factors you could point to to explain this. I prefer to think the would have been serial killers joined the police force instead of being chased by the police force
(Just so we're clear I don't actually think this... Fully. But its part of it)
its 100% because they joined the force and started killing with full impunity of the law.
With the support of the law.
Isn't killing an animal with zero remorse one of the big signs of being a psychopath?
They only hire their own kind
No, because psychopathy is not a real mental disorder and you won't find it in the DSM. Either way, I'd be more upset at people killing animals than having an arbitrarily labeled mental illness.
Ok, if you insist - highly correlated with being a serial killer?
Thanks :)
I'd love to see a study done on the correlation between being a cop and killing animals. I bet there's a definitive correlation there.
You think every slaughterhouse worker is a psychopath?
Why play dumb like this?
Some of them are.
So is that law of a federal felony not important because that person was a cop ?
What the fuck ?
FBI ... HELLO ?
Can I introduce you to qualified immunity?
I don't think this in any way counts as qualified... of course they'll claim it though.
So the thing about qualified immunity is that unless there's existing precedent that a cop can't do this, then cops have immunity. Which is a cool catch 22 because you can't have existing precedent if every cop who's ever faced charges/lawsuits for a particular thing has gotten off because there wasn't already a precedent. It's an Ouroboros of letting cops do whatever they want.
This is beginning to change in some places, where police chiefs or their higher-ups want nothing to do with overtly shitty cops, but considering these cops have already finished their paid ~~vacation~~ suspension, I don't think they'll face any serious charges.
We need major police reform
The police are militarized state violence. They enforce the will of the state through the use of violence. That's not something that can be reformed because it's inherent to policing. Any effective reform would lead to police not being police.
Follow-up, officers returned to force with more training.
The training:
stop wasting ammo where people can see you
I emailed the sheriff, gave them my address and phone number, and called him a fucking cunt.
I'm done settling for being upset. Now I am going to be loud and fucking rude all the time to cops and the cheap sluts for violence that marry them.
edit: and i sent them an apology for name calling but goddamn i am fucking livid and without the ability to do anything about cops hunting domesticated animals.
FUCK
and the cheap sluts for violence that marry them.
60% of cops abuse their spouse. These aren't "sluts for violence", these are people who can't leave because their spouse might kill them or at the very least sic other cops on them.
I understand your anger. Sadly I don't think directly all this hate towards them in this way will make things any better.
Should be animal cruelty charges for all involved.
What the actual fuck. Not a single person involved was like...hey maybe we should be normal human beings and use paper targets?
People like this should be banned from ever holding a public service job again. They're in it for the power, not to help people, and they will never change.
My thirst for justice shall never be slaked.
No pigs were harmed in this training exercise
This has been posted twice, at more or less the same time. I'm removing this one as it's a link to reddit and the other is a real news story.