mobiusclimber
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https://wreg.com/2018/06/29/towns-police-chief-resigns-cites-good-ole-boy-mindset/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings
There are major problems with policing in this country. And things are only getting worse and worse. Instead of holding cops accountable for their actions, they are allowed to lie, cheat and steal, murder with impunity, and just being idiots, racists and racist idiots. But when cops lie on the stand, lie to Aldermen, cover for each other, they don't just hurt the people they're perjuring themselves to convict. They also hurt the victims who haven't seen justice done; and the potential future victims that their incompetence has caused. If a cop fabricates evidence and gets an innocent person convicted, that means the actual criminal is still at large, free to commit more crimes. When you defend their indefensible actions, you send the message that this is all ok and fine and dandy. Maybe you think it is! Maybe you think "fuck it, they're just killing ____ (insert your most hated minority group here)." But that level of policing ruins the country for everyone. Keep defending that shit, and some day it'll come back around to you. Having a seizure in your car? If you don't respond to police, they might just shoot you! Deaf, and so you don't hear their commands? That's a shooting. The fact is, poor policing affects us all. Even if you are never on the receiving end of police corruption, the fact that they'll lie and fabricate evidence to put innocent people in jail means that those criminals are out there, waiting to prey on YOU! That's what it means to not hold cops accountable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings
There are major problems with policing in this country. And things are only getting worse and worse. Instead of holding cops accountable for their actions, they are allowed to lie, cheat and steal, murder with impunity, and just being idiots, racists and racist idiots. But when cops lie on the stand, lie to Aldermen, cover for each other, they don't just hurt the people they're perjuring themselves to convict. They also hurt the victims who haven't seen justice done; and the potential future victims that their incompetence has caused. If a cop fabricates evidence and gets an innocent person convicted, that means the actual criminal is still at large, free to commit more crimes. When you defend their indefensible actions, you send the message that this is all ok and fine and dandy. Maybe you think it is! Maybe you think "fuck it, they're just killing ____ (insert your most hated minority group here)." But that level of policing ruins the country for everyone. Keep defending that shit, and some day it'll come back around to you. Having a seizure in your car? If you don't respond to police, they might just shoot you! Deaf, and so you don't hear their commands? That's a shooting. The fact is, poor policing affects us all. Even if you are never on the receiving end of police corruption, the fact that they'll lie and fabricate evidence to put innocent people in jail means that those criminals are out there, waiting to prey on YOU! That's what it means to not hold cops accountable.