America is Fucked
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"For the past fifty years, police unions have done their best to block policing reforms of all kinds. In the seventies, they opposed officers’ having to wear name tags.
More recently, they’ve opposed the use of body cameras and have protested proposals to document racial profiling and to track excessive-force complaints. They have lobbied to keep disciplinary histories sealed.
If a doctor commits malpractice, it’s a matter of public record, but, in much of the country, a police officer’s use of excessive force is not. Across the nation, unions have led the battle to limit the power of civilian-review boards, generally by arguing that civilians are in no position to judge the split-second decisions that police officers make.
Earlier this year, Newark created a civilian-review board that was acclaimed as a model of oversight. The city’s police union immediately announced that it would sue to shut it down."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazi…
This was written in 2016!
but more recent stuff here:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/…
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this would be the first problem to tackle, if this gets a fix quick, the other big reforms concerning racism, discrimination and lack of equality would follow...
but for sure the US can't do this under a Rep Gov and not under Drump.
- A close friend of mine is highly ranked and decorated police officer in Philadelphia. Here is his take. When he disciplines is officers for just about...utopian
- From what people understand, basically the police in the USA have become a state within a state! They have the unions taking care of everything for them.********
- ...anything, infractions, complaints, his orders they are either dismissed by his superior officers and or by the Police union. He is repeatedly told to play...utopian
- nicely in the sand box and not to create additional internal issues. He said that its almost impossible to have another officer fired, regardless of the...utopian
- ...offense. He said every single police district within the city is like its own very own high school. Bullying, racism....utopian
- ...petty fighting amongst each other, etc... It is impossible to make any changes from within the police because of corruption, internal power struggles...utopian
- ...egos and maintaining the status quo. The police in the United States will never change unless society and congress forces reform unto the cops.utopian
- This is a very dangerous situation for a democracy.********
- Look at this, whois running the show, this just in https://twitter.com/…********
- "NYPD chief calls for Cuomo to apologize publicly for making 'disgraceful' comments about officers"********