[Strutz]

I'm surprised so much of this brutality still happens when pretty much all incidents are captured one way or another on cameras. Back before technology got involved did these incidents not happen or were they not reported the way they happened?

[xerxes]

They didn’t get reported or were swept under the rug. And the cops keep doing this because they keep getting away with it. It’s exceedingly rare for cops to get charged for anything they do while on the job. I’m these five cops are wondering why they are the ones are actually getting charged with murder when their brethren do it all the time and get off Scott free.

[Scape]

xerxes xerxes:

The institutionalized racism and siege mentality drilled into every police recruit will require a revolution to change and generations to overcome.

I was a part of the super solider program called SYEP. This student youth employment program allowed me it sign up at 16 because the program was civilian in nature and by the time I graduated I would be of legal age to serve. In that program was the 1st female combat arms trainees. Before that women could only be in the support echelons. There were three women in my boot and one washed out day one but the others that stayed on did end up in the army albeit not long and one still decided to go cook cuz that what she wanted anyway.

There were a lot of issues but the recruits themselves were not judgmental, it was the crusty sergeants and the ones long in the tooth and not in the smarts. And then there were the airbourne trainers. This was before Shidane Arone was turned into a piñata' They HATED SJW BS that they saw it as being foisted on them and MADE It KNOWN. I'm not saying they were all like that but you don't get into that unit without having something on your shoulder. They hated change to trusted traditions. Having that unit disbanded was a game changer but so to was the overall change of what is tolerated by society itself. That is what is changing here, the social momentum itself is as strong as much need institutional reforms. It wouldn't have mattered to the women that signed up and got chewed up and spit out since 1988 but some are getting thru and that trickle will become a stream.

New blood isn't bigoted, it has to be trained into them. You take out the old boys network, you set down rules that it isn't going to be allowed and ENFORCE IT this can and will be stopped. It requires political will and that happens when they tack to the wind of social change. We are at the next inflection point.

[DrCaleb]

Scape Scape:

New blood isn't bigoted, it has to be trained into them. You take out the old boys network, you set down rules that it isn't going to be allowed and ENFORCE IT this can and will be stopped.

Training every new recruit that every encounter with the public is likely to be their last, instils a fear in them that causes every minor challenge to their authority to be met with overwhelming force, is the main problem with the current staff.

It seem obvious when watching hours of camera footage from police encounters that the problem lies in the police assumption they hold a special place in society. Here is an interaction you might think goes wrong, but I promise it doesn't. Sad that it is the rare gem in how things should go.

[DrCaleb]

Why do so many police traffic stops turn deadly?

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Last year, at least 86 people were killed by police in interactions that began as traffic stops. In 2021 it was 117, according to the Mapping Police Violence database.

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Since 2017, more than 800 people have been killed after being pulled over in the US, according to statistics from the Mapping Police Violence database.

[Scape]

[xerxes]

How shitty of a cop are you, when you can’t deal with a guy with no legs in a wheelchair? The bitter irony here is that the murder victim had lost his legs in an incident with police years before. The cops finished what they started.

[Scape]

[Scape]

TDPS FBI Investigating Deaths at Harris County Jail

Frozen to death strapped to a chain naked in a freezer. WTF?

[Scape]

There are so many apples that are bad that the whole country is drunk on power.

[DrCaleb]

Congressman confronts FBI over “egregious” unlawful search of his personal data

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Last month, a declassified FBI report revealed that the bureau had used Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to conduct multiple unlawful searches of a sitting Congress member’s personal communications. Wired was the first to report the abuse, but for weeks, no one knew exactly which lawmaker was targeted by the FBI. That changed this week when Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) revealed during an annual House Intelligence Committee hearing on world threats that the FBI’s abuse of 702 was “in fact” aimed at him.

“This careless abuse by the FBI is unfortunate,” LaHood said at the hearing, suggesting that the searches of his name not only “degrades trust in FISA” but was a “threat to separation of powers” in the United States. Calling the FBI’s past abuses of Section 702 “egregious,” the congressman—who is leading the House Intelligence Committee's working group pushing to reauthorize Section 702 amid a steeply divided Congress—said that “ironically,” being targeted by the FBI gives him a “unique perspective” on “what’s wrong with the FBI.”

LaHood has said that having his own Fourth Amendment rights violated in ways others consider “frightening” positions him well to oversee the working group charged with implementing bipartisan reforms and safeguards that would prevent any such abuses in the future.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said that LaHood “personifies the fears and mistrust many in America have about the FBI’s leadership,” noting that ”too many Americans are worried it could be them” next.

FISA will be the same court that Julian Assange will face when he is extradited.

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[DrCaleb]

There is no point in shooting an activist unless they are surrendering.

[DrCaleb]