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Even if he wins, the harm is done, Police wants to spread fear to make people submissive and not criticize their actions. They are not going to pay. It will pay
by ghostDancer 3y ago
Even if he wins, the harm is done, Police wants to spread fear to make people submissive and not criticize their actions. They are not going to pay. It will pay the city, the policemen will continue with their abuses of power.
- autoexec 3y agoWhich is why the officers involved should pay, with their jobs. The department should fire them to demonstrate to the public that the officer's actions were unacceptable and won't be tolerated. I'm sure they won't, but if they care about about improving how they're viewed by the public they're going to have to start holding their own responsible for abuses of power. It shouldn't end with the police either. That mayor needs to be voted out next election if not sooner.
- madaxe_again 3y agoYeah, but firing them would make the next family thanksgiving for the chief mightily awkward. Small town PDs are usually family businesses.
- drewcoo 3y agoThey have different last names. Are you sure they're related? https://newtongov.org/Directory.aspx?did=10 https://newtongov.org/Directory.aspx?did=10
- mcny 3y agoI think the odds are high given the population is only about fifteen thousand.
- ceejayoz 3y agoI don't have the same last name as my parents. My mother doesn't have the same last name as her parents. Why would you think this alone indicates anything about their relationships?
- plagiarist 3y agoI thought they meant family metaphorically, a way to describe high amounts of nepotism.
- 14 3y agoThat is a start but won’t help as it is common knowledge that police often move a county over and get hired for another department after getting fired. What would actually help us is they were personally sued and handed a bill for $50,000 paid by their own money.
- FireBeyond 3y agoPerhaps there should be some form of register for police, that tracks officers dismissed, or who resigned to avoid termination, etc., so that cities and departments could use that to inform hiring decisions. Oh, wait, there absolutely is such a thing! That's great! Except a large number (majority, even) of police unions around the country have it written into their CBA that this register cannot be used for hiring decisions... Well, shit.
- kristopolous 3y agoThe more I learn about how the actual mafia and crime syndicates work, the more I realize the police are just a gang backed by the power of the state. We need structurally different institutions to play their role.
- bsenftner 3y agoWe live in an immature emotionally driven "civilization" of adult children that is a stalemate of ever present war: given the identification of any nation having any economic weakness, every other nation capable exploits that weakness in an effort to improve their own situation, while loudly executing playground games in society distraction. The United States is one of the dominant power brokers, most adept at that distraction game, and extremely corrupt, to the degree the corruption is argued to be the state of the nature of man.
- suoduandao3 3y agoI remember a discussion about 'Uber for police' and just thinking 'boy, that would be so much better than what we have now'. Imagine being able to rate your responding officer and they couldn't carry a weapon below a certain number of stars.
- storf45 3y agoIt’s almost like the state has a monopoly on force.
- seanw444 3y agoIt's almost like the founders knew this was going to happen, and gave us an advantage.
- bitcharmer 3y agoWhat kind of advantage? Unrestricted access to firearms? Hows that playing out for you in the USA?
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- fred_is_fred 3y agoThe term they use is "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride". Which means, we can screw with you enough just by arresting you even if nothing comes of it.