Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06...e-bosses-say-it-didnt-happen-it-didnt-happen/
And it was covered up by their higher ups.
The American justice system has got to be the worst in the world, surely?
These cases happen far too often for a country that uses ‘Freedom’ as one of its founding principles.
The US justice is designed to do one thing which to lock up Black & Latino men and force them to work for free. It's slavery.
I've read far too many horror stories about the US justice system.
If you look back at the history of it, it's largely a spill over from alcohol prohibition where the sudden increase in prison population could not be met by the existing system so they introduced private prison franchises to rapidly increase the capacity. Once prohibition was over most societies would be happy to see their prison population drop and maybe even have to shut a prison or two but once business was involved it became a goal to try to maintain the prison population and in turn the profit, jobs and cheap produce/labour that system provided. It's one of the main reasons the war on drugs was taken up so aggressively and why the poor, black and latinos are policed and prosecuted so readily. Prison should never be operated as a for profit business but we're heading down the same route in the UK these days.
Prison for profit system.
Worst in what way? Maybe in the developed world, yea. It's definitely ineffective, overburdened, and tedious. I dread having to go to court because i see how retarded and painstakingly slow the process is
Worst in every way.
The sheer amount of prisoners is far too much.
Poor people are jailed and can't afford the bail so they have to stay in prison, which in turn can ruin their life in lots of different ways.
The cheap labour.
The profit system.
The morality surrounding the death penalty.
We could go on and on.
I mean countries which are ran by dictators/tyrants are certainly more extreme in which they'll jail people for simply disagreeing with the government/leader or whatever.
But on a relative comparison basis, surely the most powerful country in the world should have a justice system that's much better than it currently is?
Or am I asking for too much?
Yup. Much like the gun control debate it's too little too late unfortunately.
There's a strange dichotomy at play there. On one hand the right to bear arms is a big symbolism of freedom, yet an unfair justice system is as far from freedom as you can get.
This isn't to do with the police specifically, but Travyon Martin's murder seemed to have kicked off this wave of coverage and disbelief etc about how shooting black people isn't apparently a punishable offense. This video goes into some detail about the Martin case and Zimmerman's defence. I heard the whole thing while working, it's like a podcast. And his voice is super soothing.
I remember the other tweet you posted in his thread, Palestinians live in sewage. Not racist at all ever how dare you besmirch
The whole system is rotten from top to bottom.
Problem #1 is how ridiculously easy it is to become a cop in certain areas in the US. Lack of proper background checks, psychological screening and stupidly short academy training programs means a lot of people who never should have been police officers can become one in 6 months or so. In other words, plenty of racists/bigots who has a gun and a badge over there
Problem #2 is of course the widespread gun violence in the US. It makes cops twitchy and nervous, which is why they end up shooting people reaching for their pockets or glove compartments
Problem #3 is how police training is done in the US. Instead of training focusing on deescalating a potentially dangerous situation they do the complete opposite by going for the extreme solution right away.
Problem #4 is the ridiculous "three strikes" system where you can end up in jail for A LONG time over minor infractions. Basically creating criminals
Problem #5 is the prison industrial complex which is a very lucrative business and prisoners are a commodity to be bought and sold. In other words, they need a steady supply of prisoners to make money. There are plenty of examples of police precinct having certain quotas to fill both in terms of fines and arrests
Problem #6 is that US prisons are fecking terrible and based on punishment rather than rehabilitation so naturally recidivism rates are incredibly high
Basically it's a system that attacks and not protects it's citizens
Ah, is this the 'definitely not racist' Ben Shapiro, back at it again?
You've laid out the points very coherently that explain the problem with the system, it's not designed to protect it's most vulnerable and at risk citizens at all.
Quite frankly, looking at it's history, it never was.
No easy quotable section, but basically the cops are using facial recognition software to identify predominantly black suspects, and it turns out facial recognition software is particularly innaccurate when it comes to recognizing black people. Because the people who code it are predominantly white.
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-recognition-white-coders-black-people-police
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-recognition-white-coders-black-people-police
No way he gets put in Gen Pop.
Unless he is in solitary (it's own kind of hell) he will likely meet up with some prisoners. Even a trustee might want to take a shot at him.
Geez he's in for a treat then.
Apparently he's already spent some time with Dylan Roof while awaiting trial. Nice that they put him with someone he had common interests with, I suppose.
I've just seen the video of Daniel Shaver being killed on my timeline, by a cop who had 'you're fecked' on his gun. Shocking. And he was tried and wasn't convicted.
Wtf.. No words for it..
Am guessing something along the lines of he did not follow instructions clearly or reaching for his back when he clearly was asked not to do it.Holy shit.. How on earth wasn't he convicted?
The way the cop casually just walks past him after shooting him. Jesus!
Fecking hell. I'm baffled by the sheer tone of the cop too, he's just so overly aggressive with his instructions. No calmness whatsoever.
The amount of times he said 'or we will shoot you' or something similar is telling. Almost like he was looking for any excuse.
That's absolutely disgusting.
Why not approach him when he's lay on the floor or even with his hands in the air and cuff him, rather than making him crawl on the floor and then shoot him for instinctively pulling up his shorts as they dragged on the floor.
The disconnect from the cop to what he's doing is terrifying.
Why not approach him when he's lay on the floor or even with his hands in the air and cuff him, rather than making him crawl on the floor and then shoot him for instinctively pulling up his shorts as they dragged on the floor.
The disconnect from the cop to what he's doing is terrifying.
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Man, i'm tired. That's all. I just don't have any more words right now.
That's the worst one I've seen. That's murder.
Dear Lord... Police got what he wanted. He was clearly after that result. The police in the US are like gestapo, no wonder many fear them.