frank serpico, famous police corruption whistleblower, speaks out

[rickyb]

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Torrance Coste

@TorranceCoste
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I’m dreaming of a future where we invest in each other, in our communities, and in stable, respectful economies, not in sending dozens of cops onto logging roads on stat holidays to arrest Indigenous land defenders and other activists standing up for remaining ancient forests.



John Horgan

 

[rickyb]

Justin Amash

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The Justice in Policing Act is already watered down. Substantive justice reform means fully ENDING —qualified immunity (the bill doesn’t) —civil asset forfeiture —the drug war —victimless crimes —no-knock warrants —militarization of police —mandatory minimums —the death penalty

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I don’t have anything to say ... I was just feeling sorry for Ricky because he is the only person posting in this thread.

 

[rickyb]

I don’t have anything to say ... I was just feeling sorry for Ricky because he is the only person posting in this thread.

u guys are terribly naive if u think cops are 2 legit 2 quit

 

[Old Man Jingles]

u guys are terribly naive if u think cops are 2 legit 2 quit

Hammer Time! with a James Brown intro ...

 

[rickyb]

israel security quite often trains american police with the same occupation techniques israel uses on palestine which american police use internally on its own ghettos

 

[rickyb]

The perpetuation and honoring of the narrative that America is systemically racist and rotten to its core should be booed. It's just not true.

after MLK got assassinated???

 

[rickyb]

Last week we discovered that the federal government tested facial recognition technology on millions of unconsenting travellers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. 1
This happened 5 years ago, yet we’re just learning about it now. In the last five years the underlying technology has only become more sophisticated and widespread. Can you imagine what is happening NOW that we don’t yet know about?
This is yet another example of how surveillance and facial recognition are secretly running wild in our country without any meaningful laws restricting their use.
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There is so much we still don’t know about the impact of this secret use of surveillance. We don’t even know who may have been wrongly searched or even deported from Canada based off the deployment of this technology– technology known to be biased against women and darker skinned people. But here’s what we do know: without oversight and legal limits this technology is only getting more invasive and more prevalent.
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[Serf]

Everyone with a smart phone or even cell phone is recordable and traceable. Add your social media pics that you post every weekend, and boom. Why do you think part of the Vegas shooters mystery (assuming it wasn’t an inside job) is so aloof? He had virtually zero digital footprint.

 

[rickyb]

Everyone with a smart phone or even cell phone is recordable and traceable. Add your social media pics that you post every weekend, and boom. Why do you think part of the Vegas shooters mystery (assuming it wasn’t an inside job) is so aloof? He had virtually zero digital footprint.

yes big data is a joke, these corporations and govt are out of control.

 

[refineryworker05]

Without question police corruption hurts this nation and makes it much more difficult for police to do their job, but again for some Americans they view the police as standing between them and the groups of other Americans whom they view as inherently violent and dangerous. So they give the police a lot of latitude to be violent with those groups to control them. So rational discussions about police corruption are very difficult to have. I mean there are other reasons that discussion would be difficult, the police unions have a lot of power, and the relationship the police have with heads of local governments around the nation, etc.

 

[Serf]

I don’t hate police. But as it pertains to this thread, at least in my area. We have so many different law enforcement departments. Local, county, & State. Not even factoring in the federal outfits. A lot of people wave the thin blue line flag. Not even realizing it’s the Police Unions that are driving up the taxes they pay. So what was once a blue collar job turns into Officer so and so making 6 figures with overtime. Only gets worse when people talk about good school systems, flock to towns that have them and end up giving another chunk of flesh to the teachers unions. Vicious cycle.

 

[rickyb]

I don’t hate police. But as it pertains to this thread, at least in my area. We have so many different law enforcement departments. Local, county, & State. Not even factoring in the federal outfits. A lot of people wave the thin blue line flag. Not even realizing it’s the Police Unions that are driving up the taxes they pay. So what was once a blue collar job turns into Officer so and so making 6 figures with overtime. Only gets worse when people talk about good school systems, flock to towns that have them and end up giving another chunk of flesh to the teachers unions. Vicious cycle.

i like unions but police unions have too much power.

 

[Serf]

i like unions but police unions have too much power.

Unions ain’t all that bad. Especially if you’re mobbed up in one. Sarcasm aside. It’s everyone else that has to pay to play.

 

[rickyb]

i would guess cops are up there

 

[Serf]

i would guess cops are up there

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I do know they used to get away with Drinking and Driving a lot. But those days are gone for the most part.

 

[rickyb]

I do know they used to get away with Drinking and Driving a lot. But those days are gone for the most part.

Bc theyre on camera?

 

[Serf]

Bc theyre on camera?

That. And it’s sorta dept mandated. Officer discretion is a thing of the past. 100% accountability….for the most part.

 

[rickyb]

That. And it’s sorta dept mandated. Officer discretion is a thing of the past. 100% accountability….for the most part.

cops have to be more careful now with all the public anger

 

[rickyb]

Twain knew that foreign occupations, designed to enrich the ruling elites, use occupied populations as laboratory rats to perfect techniques of control that soon migrate back to the homeland. It was the brutal colonial policing practices in the Philippines, which included a vast spy network along with routine beatings, torture, and executions, which became the model for centralized domestic policing and intelligence gathering in the United States. Israeli’s arms, surveillance and drone industries test their products on the Palestinians.

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