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@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

Regardless, the problem with police is not that many are “poorly trained” or that “many are abusive.” The fundamental point of policing in America is abuse! This isn’t a “whoops” mistake, it’s an institution of violence.

Cops aren’t trained poorly; they are trained precisely to hurt you. That’s why they hurt so many people!
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: torturing random people.

https://chicagopolicetorturearchive.com

Chicago Police Torture Archive

The violence of Commander Jon Burge and his crew, who tortured more than 100 Black men, from the 1970s-1990s
Chicago Police Torture Archive
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: robbing people.

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/using-loophole-seward-county-seizes-millions-from-motorists-without-convicting-them-of-crimes/

Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convicting them of crimes - Flatwater Free Press

One of every three state civil asset forfeiture seizures happen in this county, pop. 17,692. Proponents say it combats the drug trade and saves taxpayer money. Critics say it’s highway robbery.
Natalia Alamdari (Flatwater Free Press)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
LukefromDC
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid Cops stealing large amounts of cash from highway travellers has become an issue. They claim it's drug money and steal thousands under "black asphalt" programs. This is quite literally highway robbery, which historically has been a capital offense. Still is, as any cops who knew another cop that got shot in a traffic stop can attest. These too are generally armed robberies.
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: mass murder.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022

Law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people or about 100 people a month last year, making it the deadliest for police violence
Sam Levin (The Guardian)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: kidnapping people and raping them.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/09/fact-check-police-detainee-sex-not-illegal-many-states/5383769002/

Fact check: Sex between police officers and their detainees isn't illegal in many states

Pointing to a 2018 article, viral posts claim police can legally have sex with people in their custody. That isn't entirely true.
Devon Link, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: raping children.

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nypd-anna-chambers-rape-probation/

In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time

Two NYPD cops coerced Anna Chambers into sex in exchange for her freedom. A judge just gave them no jail time.
Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: assaulting journalists to disrupt their coverage of police violence.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2020/6/16/blinded-arrested-police-attack-journalists-covering-us-protests

Blinded, arrested: Police attack journalists covering US protests

Watchdog receives over 400 reports of press freedom violations during recent wave of protests against police brutality.
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath (Al Jazeera)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: stopping hungry people from eating food.

https://apnews.com/article/portland-storms-oregon-4eebd2cd2f1b9f798667994bc871a647

Police guard dumpsters full of discarded food at Fred Meyer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — About a dozen police officers guarded dumpsters filled with perishable food outside a Portland, Oregon, Fred Meyer as people attempted to take the items that were discarded when the store lost power.
AP News
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: violently suppressing protests against police violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/us-police-brutality-protest

Nearly 1,000 instances of police brutality recorded in US anti-racism protests

Police attacks on citizens and journalists over five months accompanied by incidents of tolerance of or collaboration with far right
Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: murdering indigenous people.

https://www.wuwm.com/2021-06-02/native-americans-most-likely-to-die-from-police-shootings-families-who-lost-loved-ones-weigh-in

Native Americans Most Likely To Die From Police Shootings, Families Who Lost Loved Ones Weigh In

According to CDC data from 2009 to 2019, Native people were 2.2 times more likely to be killed by police than white people and 1.2 times more likely than Black people.
Teran Powell (WUWM)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: killing dogs.

https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department

US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic”

American law enforcement agencies employ dogs to do their detective work and dirty work. Yet dogs get killed by cops an awful lot.
Ephrat Livni (Quartz)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@chairman_meh @ParanoidFactoid

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: not protecting people.

https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public

Though often unsaid in police reform debates, numerous court precedents have established that cops aren’t obligated to act in the interests of citizens.
Ramenda Cyrus (The American Prospect)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
HeavenlyPossum
@ParanoidFactoid @chairman_meh

“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: making crime worse.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html

In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

When New York City Police temporarily reduced their "proactive policing" efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell.
Amina Khan (Los Angeles Times)
@Paranoid Factoid @Chairman Meh
RD
and more:

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113010235736562896

HeavenlyPossum

2024-08-23 07:49:09


If we abolished the police, who would perform such socially necessary roles as “raping a child who had just been raped”?

https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-lawsuit-verdict-rape-victim-police-e772320d2c3f531cc7acbb0c94470bdd


$1M verdict for teen, already a victim when she was assaulted by an officer

A federal jury has decided the city of New Orleans owes $1 million to a teenage sexual assault victim who was befriended by a city police officer and further abused by him.
AP News
RD
more (thread about Saskatoon freezing deaths, aka "Starlight Tours"):

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113016489160992654
RD
more (Breonna Taylor):

https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/113017214599433176

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

2024-08-24 13:23:58


A justice system will never hold cops accountable for killing people. Legal justice is what serves the state, and cops killing people is what upholds the state

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-judge-dismisses-officer-charges/


Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend caused her death, throws out major charges against ex-Louisville officers

The judge also threw out major felony charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying a warrant.
CBS News
RD
The hits just keep on coming:

Salt Lake City Police Broke A Woman’s Leg During An Arrest. Weeks Later, It Had To Be Amputated.
"Last September, Agnes Martinez was looking for a place she and her dog could sleep for the night. Houseless at the time, she parked her car in a commercial area south of downtown Salt Lake City. Soon after, she was confronted by two Salt Lake City Police officers in an encounter that would end with the loss of her left leg."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/salt-lake-city-police-broke-a-womans-leg-during-an-arrest-weeks-later-it-had-to-be-amputated/

Salt Lake City Police Broke A Woman's Leg During An Arrest. Weeks Later, It Had To Be Amputated. - UNICORN RIOT

Salt Lake City, UT – Last September, Agnes Martinez was looking for a place she and her dog could sleep for the night. Houseless at the time, she parked her car in a commercial area south of downtown Salt Lake City.
bumstead (UNICORN RIOT)
RD
Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life.

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

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113092006443541660

HeavenlyPossum

2024-09-06 18:24:30


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

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HeavenlyPossum
@RD4Anarchy

Wow there must be so many bad apples
@RD
RD
The problem with the "bad apples" idea is that police aren't like apples at all.

Well, unless we mean apples genetically engineered to be bad, that would make some sense lol
Simplicator
@RD4Anarchy Also the original saying was “one bad apple spoils the whole barrel,” not that one bad apple meant the rest are OK
@RD
libramoon
@RD4Anarchy
the police problem is not bad apples
it is bad pickers and bad apple growers,
and a bad apple market
which encourages the production and distribution
of clearly poisonous fruit
@RD
Keep Migrants, Deport MAGA
@RD4Anarchy Consider the rest of that aphorism that nobody seems to remember:

“A few bad apples spoil the bunch”

So, uh, yes a few bad cops spoil… all the other cops. They’re all spoiled, top to bottom. Accurate
@RD
RD
@nathandh
It still doesn't work for me because while individual cops may be further spoiled by other cops, that's not the source of the core problem of police which is an institution that is spoiled from its very roots.
@Keep Migrants, Deport MAGA
RD
"...the state jealously guards its monopoly on legitimate violence by *preventing* us from defending ourselves and our families against abuse."

https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/113172632403591872

Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

2024-09-21 00:08:45


The claim that we need the state to protect us against abusers is a popular and superficial anti-anarchism "gotcha". In reality, as anarchists know, the state jealously guards its monopoly on legitimate violence by *preventing* us from defending ourselves and our families against abuse. Here's an all too typical story about a Colorado mother who was jailed for defying a court order to "reconcile" her children with their father, a former cop who is facing charges of sexually abusing three of his daughters.

#Anarchism #SelfDefense #KYLR #FamilyCourt

H/T @br00t4c

https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/20/colorado-mom-jail-kids-rachel-pickrel-hawkins/


Surprised a Colorado Mom Was Jailed for Protecting Her Kids? Don’t Be. - Ms. Magazine

Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins, a Colorado mother living in a domestic violence shelter, rejected therapy forcing kids to reconcile with an abusive father.
Amy Polacko (Ms. Magazine)
RD
“Cops are a necessary function of society.”

The necessary function: manufacturing and selling crack cocaine

https://apnews.com/article/lauderdale-broward-florida-crack-cocaine-convictions-sentences-796f5572af1757e368ae7a359e34bbae

Florida prosecutor seeks to clear records of people charged with buying police-made crack in 1980s

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office between 1988 and 1990.
AP News

Ugly Bag of Mostly Waterudostępnił to.

HeavenlyPossum
@RD4Anarchy

Between this and the “selling guns” story, I struggle to understand the distinction between “the cops” and “the cartels” they’re supposed to be guarding us against.
@RD
Three things jump out at me from news stories like this:

- The US government has been involved in providing children as essentially slave labor.

- No amount of “we’ve conquered poverty!” cheerleading from outlets like Our World in Data can paper over the catastrophic failure of “capitalist progress” that child labor represents.

- Capitalists would absolutely enslave you and your children if they could, and we know this because they literally enslave children when they can get away with it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna96480

Labor Department says number of children it it found working illegally is up 44% since the same time last year

As HHS Secretary Becerra faced criticism from Congress about migrant minors working dangerous jobs, the Labor Dept. said the number of children it found working illegally was up 44%.
Laura Strickler (NBC News)
HeavenlyPossum
Also, this is Joe Biden’s administration, not Donald Trump’s. The idea that there’s a meaningful difference between the two prevailing parties of capital is a little threadbare these days.
RD
@TheElevenator
Yes, but for me it still does not really apply to police because the entire institution of police is bad from the roots, not merely spoiled by bad individuals.
@TheElevenator
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