in that system corrupt cops form a self protection gang and elect the cleanest one of the bunch to act as sherrif who then is able to stifle all investigations and complaints.
it still happens even with voting but at least with voting you have a way to remove them... you can't count on the wolves to police themselves... and yeah, some of them are very very nasty people.
power fucks some people's heads up.
when you give people the power of arrest, the power to force compliance onto others, the power to decide who's life you are going to ruin or not... some of these sick fucks get off on that shit.
i don't want a bunch of them voting in one of their own.
spend some time watching 1A "audits" on youtube... some of those guys are pieces of shit, but there are some great people out there doing what they can to try to preserve your 1A rights of free press and to record in public... you would be fucking shocked at how DUMB a lot of these cops are, how violent and angry they get when people know the law and assert their rights.
There are hundreds of videos on youtube right now of citizens doing nothing but standing on public property (public easement) and filming a government building (like a post office or a police station) and then getting arrested and sometimes beaten up and held in prison for the whole weekend.
if you are ever in a situation where you don't have to show your ID, and the cop asks for it, and you refuse to provide it... even though you are 100% in the right... you're taking your freedom into your own hands.
and these are people who are wearing cameras and recording... imagine what they are doing to people with no cameras.
Watch enough of those and you'll start to understand that a lot of policing is just revenue generation driving around all night fucking people over and taking advantage of people who don't know their rights and freely forfeit them under threats and intimidation.
"do you have your ID handy" is a prime example... many times they have zero legal authority to demand you produce one, they just want to run you for warrants and they hope you hand it over...
notice they ask you if you have it on you or "can i see your ID" and 9/10 people freely fork it right over so as not to anger the former D student with a gun.
most of their job is just a fishing expedition for legalized theft and extortion.
My god, wow! I did not even think of it that way! I always default to people are good people unless they show otherwise. Maybe I need to flip that script…
thats actually a recipe for disaster...
in that system corrupt cops form a self protection gang and elect the cleanest one of the bunch to act as sherrif who then is able to stifle all investigations and complaints.
it still happens even with voting but at least with voting you have a way to remove them... you can't count on the wolves to police themselves... and yeah, some of them are very very nasty people.
power fucks some people's heads up.
when you give people the power of arrest, the power to force compliance onto others, the power to decide who's life you are going to ruin or not... some of these sick fucks get off on that shit.
i don't want a bunch of them voting in one of their own.
spend some time watching 1A "audits" on youtube... some of those guys are pieces of shit, but there are some great people out there doing what they can to try to preserve your 1A rights of free press and to record in public... you would be fucking shocked at how DUMB a lot of these cops are, how violent and angry they get when people know the law and assert their rights.
There are hundreds of videos on youtube right now of citizens doing nothing but standing on public property (public easement) and filming a government building (like a post office or a police station) and then getting arrested and sometimes beaten up and held in prison for the whole weekend.
if you are ever in a situation where you don't have to show your ID, and the cop asks for it, and you refuse to provide it... even though you are 100% in the right... you're taking your freedom into your own hands.
and these are people who are wearing cameras and recording... imagine what they are doing to people with no cameras.
Watch enough of those and you'll start to understand that a lot of policing is just revenue generation driving around all night fucking people over and taking advantage of people who don't know their rights and freely forfeit them under threats and intimidation.
"do you have your ID handy" is a prime example... many times they have zero legal authority to demand you produce one, they just want to run you for warrants and they hope you hand it over...
notice they ask you if you have it on you or "can i see your ID" and 9/10 people freely fork it right over so as not to anger the former D student with a gun.
most of their job is just a fishing expedition for legalized theft and extortion.
My god, wow! I did not even think of it that way! I always default to people are good people unless they show otherwise. Maybe I need to flip that script…