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"The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them" Not trivial, considering a substan
by jzb 3y ago
"The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them"
Not trivial, considering a substantial percentage of elected officials are dead-set against allowing the DOJ to actually fight this kind of thing. They only approve of law and order when the law and/or order is pointed at very specific types of criminals or protests.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt's corruption all the way up.
- dathinab 3y agodown, up is where it started I would say
- danaris 3y ago[flagged]
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- AtlasBarfed 3y agoPeople forget that corrupt police departments are tolerated because they help exert racist and class-based preferential enforcement/harassment/suppression. Porbably why the police unions are so staunchly supported by conservatives, because in the city the police's primary job is to protect affluents and their property values from the "ghetto". So the likelihood of some DOJ reformation is slim. The dems in power won't rock that boat (the local governments are usually democratic) and the reps won't because of the real purpose of city police as described.