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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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
I counted 24 potential officers here, some on the left might not be officers, but some might not be shown in this photo, so I'll add them in.
Chatgpt suggested the daily cost for 24 officers to stand here is $6,672/day assuming no overtime and 8 hours of "protecting".
What a completely reasonable and absolutely not wasteful use of police time and resources! "Hello, 911? My house is being robbed!" "Sorry, no officers are available because they're at the Tesla dealership"
Yeah sure...the thin blue line is BS. The police always protect the wealthy property owners and bust up the working class. I believe Netflix has a US police history documentary and who they side with during upheavals.
the thin blue line means they won’t snitch on each other’s crimes… that’s the line they won’t cross….
which makes them literally a criminal conspiracy
How do the police get paid again? I always forget.
Serve and Protect (the rich and their property through a taxpayer subsidy)
No one reads the fine print.
20-some officers protecting shitty hunks of metal, when there's murderers, rapists, pedofiles, and human traffickers roaming free. This image perfectly sums up their commitment to protecting the Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist over the rest of us.
no, no, most of the pedophiles and human traffickers were standing in a neat little line with hands by their sides when this photo was taken, not roaming or doing said acts.
edit: wait, chicago, so there are probably a bunch more of them not accounted for in this picture.
"We are not wasting tax money here!"
DOGE approved
I'd be so pissed if I lived in Chicago. What a waste of funding.
Cops are class traitors
ACAB
The Police in USA are there to protect Capital Interests. Their job to keep the status quo.
Man, look at that pile of tax money.
So I guess, if you want to commit a real crime you just threaten the Tesla dealership then go do your business elsewhere
Nah, most likely Tesla money. Most often when you see police performing a "private" function like this they're being paid by the requesting party.
Just like cops escorting a funeral procession or directing traffic for a church or private school, they're paid by whoever requested the service. Police departments are like any business. They got payroll to meet, obligations to cover, etc. They can't just yank cops from their normal duties for shit like this. They use off-duty or "*retired" officers.
Say what you will about capital hiring rent-a-cops, but they're probably not doing this on our dime.
* Buddy of mine was briefly a cop, could still strap on the uniform to escort a funeral or the like.
You know, that's an opportunity.
Any time attention is focused on one place, there's less on another.
Take the moment and target something else.
That would probably work if there wasn't a ridiculous overabundance of cops in just about all American cities.
As it is, there's enough of them to function as a private security force for billionaires and their property (their primary raison d'être) in greater numbers than usual like this without neglecting any of their usual oppression of minorities, poor people, and especially combinations thereof.
Unless these cops are in superposition, they can't be both protecting Tesla and, say, in their actual cars.
Their numbers are finite.
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In Minecraft. Always in Minecraft.
Their numbers are finite, yes. However, those finite numbers are much larger than they need to be and society would be much better and safer for the vast majority of people if there were almost none of them.
Not in Minecraft.
Brother, there's an overabundance of greedy, shitty corporate targets and storefronts, and many more of us than cops.
They can't be everywhere.
Chicago has a pretty big police force unfortunately. Looks like around 12- 13k little piggies (source)
So about 25 cops here leaves... roughly 12- 13k cops in the rest of the city :P
ETA: fun facts, the Chicago Police Dept budget is just below $2 billion. That puts it right below Slovakia's entire military budget. Slovakia's population is ~5.5 million vs. Chicago's 2.7 million people.
Chicago alone has almost as many cops as the entirety of Ireland (which has 14.6k cops for 5.3 million Irish citizens)
Who is going into that location to buy a car in these circumstances. That line of police is just as effective as any vandalism.
Y'know, you raise a good point. If I was gonna go shopping somewhere and there was a line of cops outside the place I was going, I'm absolutely not going in there lol
When you're very closed to the end-game and previously safe town areas are now spawning enemies, and the music is more ominous.
Red rover red rover, send molotov right over
Just have some peaceful protesters staying on the other side of the street and have them in shifts, do nothing else. Waste the police resources until they give up and leave.
This is the way
Even more fun if they just stand there quietly holding foam bricks.
This seems very easy. Do it over a week with people camping there and cops will realize protecting a POS is really not worth the resources.
Class traitors. All of them.
Native here, and yeah the Chicago police union is basically its own damned shadow government. Fuck these pigs.
Bo Burnham's How the works works seems to be an appropriate anthem right now
Hmm. Did they do that for abortion clinics when they were being bombed?
Wasn't there a famous movie scene about nazis, cars and illinois?
I hate Illinois nazis
Somehow I don't think that'll draw in customers.