via @NYTimes https://t.co/fyN5ngY9IQ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 7, 2023
Category: Police State
The police problem
No, they don’t need “more training.” And they don’t need to keep hiring even more stupid people, who are selected for their ability to do what they’re told, no matter what.
To even begin to address this corrupt national street gang, we need the kind of wide-ranging federal investigation they did into the Teamsters union — but into the deeply corrupted police unions instead. After all, they’re the leaders. They’re the Tucker Carlsons of police departments, revving them up and egging them on with fabricated stories about a bloody tampon in a cop’s drink.
Those poor, oppressed souls. So misunderstood.
They already have rules. They ignore them. And the police brass look the other way, because letting cops break rules is good for morale. The politicians don’t touch them because 1) police unions and 2) because cops do a very good job of collecting dirt on politicians. I guarantee that any time you see a cop indicted, the politicians had to get the approval of the union first.
There was a captain here who moved out of the city (you have to be a city resident here) and then showed up for work very rarely. The only reason something eventually happened to this cop is because the local paper put it on the front page. Everyone already knew he wasn’t showing up! Probably he was so bad at his job that the brass thought things were better when he stayed away.
That’s what passes for leadership.
I know cops have a tough job. But becoming crooks themselves is not how sane people deal with job stress.
Not the solution
Black police officers aren't colorblind – they're infected by the same anti-Black bias as American society and police in general | Rashad Shabazz https://t.co/AMuQHoILAp via @ConversationUS
— Global Black Studies at Duke (@DukeAAAS) February 1, 2023
We need RICO
“Anything resembling a root-and-branch transformation of American policing will only ever occur after the public is able to exercise real control over the institution itself,” @jbouie writes. https://t.co/wWiRhAMweh
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 31, 2023
Cops
REMINDER: Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur. https://t.co/GL1mv08E6r
— Bev Barnum (@BeverleyBarnum) January 27, 2023
I’m not showing the other video
Of Tyre Nichols getting beaten to a pulp by Memphis police. All you needto know is that he was beaten so badly, he was calling out for his mother. Let’s remember the man like this:
https://twitter.com/SenterStaged/status/1619053272668704768
Freedom
SCOOPLET: Dallas Police Dept has a contract for training to use Cellebrite, a mobile-phone data extraction technology that helps police break into confiscated phones and has been criticized for being sold to repressive regimes. Uncovered in a public document by @FrancescaDnunz. pic.twitter.com/UzyQH6wJRN
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) January 17, 2023
I still can’t believe this
I mean, where were they supposed to go?
A lawyer asks the cop to cite the law he was threatening to arrest them under. He cannot. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/unNHgzxYKl
— Brad Batt for TN State House ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) December 28, 2022
The letter of the law
Read this entire article! The police chief and the son of the patient both say the law in Kansas must change! We are a compassionate people in Kansas! We need a law that is compassionate to the patients! Will #ksleg rise to meet the will of the people?https://t.co/91IW8u9uZv
— Bleeding KS Advocate (@Bleeding4Kansas) December 28, 2022
Iran shuts down morality police
They’d better “consider” lifting that hajab rule, too:
Iran's attorney general says the government has abolished the "morality police," who enforce hated rules on hijab (although others also enforce the rules). That would be a major concession, but it's not the end of dictatorship that many protesters seek. https://t.co/FywtAzT6ku
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) December 4, 2022
Iran disbanded its morality police and is considering altering the requirement that women cover their heads in public, Iran's attorney general said https://t.co/ezLvotXOJE
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 4, 2022