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11-yo called the police and they shot him, and now they're trying to take her other kids away (www.npr.org)

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After arriving at the Murry family home, police instructed everyone inside to come out with their hands up. Nakala Murry says that's when Aderrien emerged from around a corner, running toward the door. Capers then opened fire.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Well, sometimes the smaller departments are worse. You run into places where the cops are a literal organized crime faction.

But, yeah, when the system is geared towards incarceration for control of the populace, with racist roots and power grabbing people throughout, even a small department is part of the problem.

Our county? Like I said, the sheriff really does his best to weed out the racists and assholes, but he's an elected official, and some shit is deeply entrenched. He loses an election, and we're subject to whatever gets in.

Conveniently enough, I used to be a nurse's assistant, so the analogy about nursing homes is close to home. And it is another field where the problems of the industry taint even the best caregivers sometimes. It's only because most caregivers are genuinely trying their best that it isn't as bad as the policing problems.

But you really, really don't want to see what happens in most nursing homes. The profit driven ones are worse than the charitable ones, but there's problems rooted in the capitalist dominance of the medical industry. When you're paying bare minimum for caregivers, abuse, theft, and even worse things can creep in because the keep things staffed, it's often the worst ones that stick with the job.

And! When someone stands the fuck up about abuse, they're the ones that get attacked, fired, or otherwise driven away. There's multiple reasons I stopped working in nursing homes, but being unable to stop abuse, even when going to state oversight divisions, was one of them. You make reports, and you end up mysteriously off schedule. You stop someone directly, and you're on report. It's crazy.

But, unlike cops, the victims of elder abuse in facilities rarely have anyone advocating for them, so the problem isn't as well known

But, after that experience? Yeah, even the good ones are part of the problem because the system prevents them from making change so the good ones never last long. It isn't as bad as the police problem, but nobody escapes without some taint on them, some compromise made to their ethics.

You raise a great point though. It is possible for good people to become cops (or caregivers) with the goal of changing from the inside. But they won't be allowed to they'll get run out, or killed

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99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.

The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

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