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In my city the cops are most likely to be the ones terrorizing people. In the last 5 years they: Teargassed a neighborhood, escalating a protest to violence.
by mulmen 1y ago
In my city the cops are most likely to be the ones terrorizing people. In the last 5 years they:
Teargassed a neighborhood, escalating a protest to violence.
Hit and killed a woman with their car then laughed about it.
> "Yeah, just write a check," Auderer says, chuckling. "$11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value."
Threatened to close the precinct in the largest residential neighborhood in the country if their scope of responsibility was reduced.
Committed voter fraud in an attempt to defeat police reformers.
Participated in an insurrection.
Covered up officer involvement in the January 6th insurrection by refusing to name the officers involved.
They’re not a trustworthy bunch.
- netsharc 1y agoSorry you live in a fascist area... but with that amount of lawlessness would being able to listen to their ops help with accountability? I think police having encryption is not the biggest worry when living in a corrupt regime...
- mulmen 1y ago> would being able to listen to their ops help with accountability? Yes.
- tptacek 1y agoIf your city is a major US urban area, it seems very unlikely to me that "the cops are most likely to be the ones terrorizing people". They may very well be abusive; they may very well terrorize people. Those are real problems. But people are more terrorized by crime, and, if you pay attention to what people in lower-income neighborhoods --- especially Black neighborhoods --- are actually saying in neighborhood meetings, it's that the police don't respond enough, not that there's too much of them. There's a really pernicious tendency among well-off white collar activists to instrumentalize residents of lower-income neighborhoods, activists who themselves rarely experience crime (because they tend not to live in places where it's a major problem), and project onto those residents a preference for property crime over police intervention. In the main, working class people hate crime.