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A man in California reported his father missing and decided that he must have actually murdered his father.

So, they used sleep deprivation to torture him into falsely confessing, arrested him, and held him in a psychiatric facility after he tried to self-harm in response to the abuse.

They held him even after they discovered his father was alive and, after locating the father at an airport, arrested the father too.

The police do not exist to solve or prevent crime. They exist to produce compliance, obedience, and passivity.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/fontana-pressured-murder-confession/index.html

RDudostępnił to.

Jargoggles
Reminds me of one of the Law4Kids comic edits from back in the day.
Frame 1: A girl and guy are standing in front of a car. The girl says "Cool car! Let's take a ride." Frame 2: The guy is driving and the girl is in the passenger seat. Frame 3: A cop car turns on its siren. Frame 4: The guy and girl are next to each other outside of the car, with their hands up against the car. The girl says "But I wasn't driving!" Frame 5: The cop who pulled them over says "Even the passenger gets in trouble." Frame 6: Same art as Frame 4, but this time the girl is saying "But it's his car!" Frame 7: Same art as frame 5, but the cop is saying "Even the owner gets in trouble." Frame 8: Same art as Frame 4, but the girl is saying "You're cuffing yourself!" Frame 9: Same art as Frame 5, but the cop is saying " Even the cop gets in trouble."
v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾
Amazing example of what happens to the truth under duress, you will say almost anything to get out of an unpleasant enough experience. Seems impossible you'd falsely sign a confession but it happens all the time
LisPi
@Aknorals "You're under arrest for being allegedly murdered" lolwut
@Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴
HeavenlyPossum
@Aknorals @lispi314

I think that once they had concluded a crime had been committed, they went looking for a crime and someone who might have done it. The whole point was an exercise in confirming their assumptions and making sure the law was used to hurt someone, not actually protecting anyone.
@Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 @LisPi
abracadabra holmes
@Aknorals @lispi314 maybe, but it's much more likely they committed massive and intentional Rights Violations because they didn't wanna get in trouble for the "accidental" Rights Violations.

Like when they release all the parking tickets you've ever gotten after they murder you.

SOP for POS COPS
@Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 @LisPi
lolonurse
Perhaps it's overdue that the USA, as a UNITED country, revamp the definition of law enforcement, policing, "To Serve & Protect"... and stop leaving it to every township, hamlet & village - or even counties. Like nursing, teaching, fire fighting, or plumbing licensing, every aspiring police "officer" should be required to have a degree & pass a licensure exam, requiring revert every 3 years with a minimum of 30 hours of CEUs.
HeavenlyPossum
@lolonurse

The problem with policing is not that police are insufficiently trained, educated, or credentialed. It’s that they’re police.
@lolonurse
lolonurse
When I was a kid, the cops both in NYC & in the small towns we had family in upstate were nice, friendly, helpful, and rode badass Harley Sportsters or Road Kings. They still walked their beats, and said hi to people. It really has become nuts.
HeavenlyPossum
@lolonurse

When you were a kid, cops were just as abusive. Putting on a good face doesn’t mean they were actually better back then.
@lolonurse
RD
@lolonurse

I sincerely encourage you to explore the links I compiled here about police:

https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/112989821147363456

@HeavenlyPossum

RD

2024-08-19 17:17:27


Appendix 6: 🚨POLICE!🚨

The institution of police that we have now has only existed for around 200 years, but many people have been conditioned to accept it as a natural and necessary fact of life and have trouble accepting the idea of abolishing the police, even if they strongly support major (dare I say utopian) police reform. Constantly echoing around the Fediverse are debates around questions like "what would you replace police with?" or "what would you do about violent crimes?"

Let's examine the real origins and purposes of police, and the truth about what they actually do and don't do.

Origins of the police - David Whitehouse
"Excellent text examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black."
https://libcom.org/article/origins-police-david-whitehouse

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public
https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

The Kids The Guns Are For
The same police force that failed Uvalde children is arresting peaceful student protesters at UT Austin. It's not about safety. It's about order.
https://www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-the-guns-are-for

Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

A little roundup of some of the ways police play a “necessary role” in society. (sarcastically titled thread of links compiled by @HeavenlyPossum)
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110809880758838358

The Body Camera: The Language of our Dreams (64 page pdf from the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation)
Did you know that police forces were pushing to implement body cams on their own, before they were pressured to do so by activists for police reform? To understand why, I highly recommend this very well-researched and revealing article by Alec Karakatsanis penetrating the facade of police reform in the specific case of body cams.
Excerpts from the introduction:
Most people would prefer a society with less government surveillance, violence by employees of the state, and waste of public resources. And yet they all keep growing despite decades of “reform.” It is my uncomfortable suggestion in this article that they all keep expanding in part because of these “reforms.” ... By situating the rise of the police body camera within its actual legal, political, and economic contexts, I suggest that the body camera is one of the most important Trojan horses in contemporary U.S. history. ... All of it happened under the guise of making the police bureaucracy more “accountable” and “transparent.”
https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/f/4764/files/2024/07/Alec-Karakatsanis_The-Body-Camera-FINAL.pdf

The End of Policing Means the End of Capitalism — Some Likely but Rarely Discussed Economic Effects of Abolition by @AdrianRiskin
https://chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-economic-effects-of-abolition/

Alternatives to Police
A compilation of case-studies on alternatives to cops. A long bibliography for further reading is also included.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rose-city-copwatch-alternatives-to-police

Community-based alternatives to police, by city
Don’t Call The Police is a website that has non-carceral/non-policing, community-based resources for domestic violence & sexual assault, mental health, housing, LGBTQ+, youth, elders, crime, substances, and voter protection.
https://dontcallthepolice.com/

The End of Policing
This book by Alex Vitale falls short of addressing fundamental conditions such as the state, rule of law, and capitalism, and so its proposed solutions are somewhat shallow and flimsy, and despite the title it never quite fully embraces complete abolition of police. Nevertheless it remains a valuable resource as a detailed survey of the vast landscape of death, damage and abuse caused by police (which has only gotten worse since 2017 when this book was published). Notably this book makes its argument against police from a more conventional, non-anarchist context, demonstrating that police abolition is not merely a fringe ideology of extreme radicals but an idea that makes sense even in more mainstream, pragmatic liberal terms.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Vitale%20-%20The%20End%20of%20Policing%20(Police)%20(2017).pdf

The institution of police is closely associated with a belief in Rule Of Law. Here are a couple essays on that important context:

Already shared earlier in this thread, this classic piece "The Conspiracy of Law" by Howard Zinn is also very appropriate here.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/howard-zinn-the-conspiracy-of-law

Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom
How “Nobody Is above the Law” Abets the Rise of Tyranny
https://crimethinc.com/2018/11/09/take-your-pick-law-or-freedom-how-nobody-is-above-the-law-abets-the-rise-of-tyranny

#police #abolition #ACAB #RuleOfLaw


The Kids The Guns Are For

Kelly Weill (MomLeft)
@HeavenlyPossum @lolonurse
Pete
They didn't release him because they knew they were gonna get sued.
HeavenlyPossum
@philpetree

Why would they care about that? They can’t be sued personally; the city ultimately pays for their crimes. The cops themselves were eventually promoted. They tend not to suffer consequences for their actions.
@Pete
Pete
The city gets sued, the city has to pay some of the settlement and insurance pays the rest. Insurance then raises the premiums. The police officers get dinged in their personnel files and denied promotions or demoted which forces them to leave. It's a slow process, too slow, but the cops know what's coming.
HeavenlyPossum
@philpetree

The cops involved were promoted, not denied promotions or demoted. Most cops suffer no consequences for serial abuse.
@Pete
Pete
It's not over. They may get a promotion in the moment but after the lawsuits and settlements things change. Insurance companies are tired of this stuff and are starting to hit municipalities with hefty increases in their premiums because cops like these will keep repeating their bad behavior until they're terminated.
HeavenlyPossum
@philpetree

That’s sweet of you to think so but this is divorced from reality.
@Pete
Pete
I've worked in and had PDs as clients for well over a decade. There are a lot of bad cops but there are a lot of good ones too. It's a struggle for every department and it's complicated but it does eventually play out in the good guys favor... mostly.
Pete
Why, yes, yes I am! (And thank you for noticing and you keep fighting the good cause!)
HeavenlyPossum
@philpetree @AdrianRiskin

No no—Phil assured me that “it’s happening more and more” and that “it doesn’t eventually happen” even though there is no evidence this is true and lots of evidence this is false.

Copaganda as pure vibes.
@Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 @Pete
Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧
A few years ago, I had a break in at my business. Rather than looking for the person, the state cop somehow decided I was trying to steal from my bank. Even the damn bank said they were tracking the company credit card and knew it was someone else.
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Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog
@bob
You should have pissed on his car, as a suggestion for next time a cop accuses you of a felony without any evidence.
@Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧
HeavenlyPossum
@arrrg @bob

Once cops have been moved into action, they need to find someone to punish for something. Doesn’t matter who or for what; it’s just that hurting people is their whole reason for being.
@Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog @Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧
boiert
Mostly to what you once said. How many kids dreams were crushed by … oh wait.
How many parents being kept accountable to their kids actions. Police keeps count.
It’s repressive as fuck.
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