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Fair enough, but it is also valid to be angry at your local law enforcement if they are acting against the community's preferences. Especially when local law en
by whats_a_quasar 1y ago
Fair enough, but it is also valid to be angry at your local law enforcement if they are acting against the community's preferences. Especially when local law enforcement is breaking state law in the process.
- mc32 1y agoBut that would put them between federal law vs state law and federal law supersedes state law and state law supersedes local laws.
- ceejayoz 1y agoThere are plenty of things Federal law can't do under the Tenth Amendment. As an example, the Feds can round up marijuana users in California, if they like. They can't require California's law enforcement to help.
- fooker 1y agoDoesn't seem like there was 'force' involved. There's no law prohibiting local agencies helping feds.
- ceejayoz 1y ago> There's no law prohibiting local agencies helping feds. The law prohibiting exactly that is linked in the article. "Under a decade-old state law, California police are prohibited from sharing data from automated license plate readers with out-of-state and federal agencies. Attorney General Rob Bonta affirmed that fact in a 2023 notice to police."
- fooker 1y agoApologies, I was responding to the comment about weed
- Dilettante_ 1y agoMaybe true, but at a certain point you're just getting angry at the wind for blowing. The system is a scorpion: It cannot, will not go against its nature.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoThey are a political force, not a force of nature. It is certainly reasonable to get angry at a political force even if their politics are predictable.
- fn-mote 1y agoAt this point it sounds like you have given up believing in checks and balances in politics. ETA: It’s complicated, but having you give up actually weakens the rule of law even more.
- standardUser 1y agoPolitics change, scorpions don't. Throw your hands up in and air and give up if you want, but don't pretend some poor analogy absolves you.
- const_cast 1y agoI don't think he's throwing his hands up in the air, rather he's implying we need more radical change. If we're going to be waiting around for police to become "good", that's not going to happen. We need to force them to become good.
- AcerbicZero 1y agoShow me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
- Dilettante_ 1y agoThis guy gets it.
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- xyzzy9563 1y agoThe greater community, i.e. the United States, may have different preferences than San Francisco.
- FireBeyond 1y agoThose officers are employees of the City, County or State, not the United States.
- p_j_w 1y agoLocal governments are under no obligation to help the federal government enforce federal laws.