c/thepoliceproblem · by CubitOom@infosec.pub · 182d

Students led a peaceful protest. The police chief showed up in plain clothes and assaulted two students. (Quakertown, PA - 02/20/26)

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38 Comments

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 130 pts · 182d (2 replies)

VIOLENTLY Assaulting Children is how we PROTECT the Children!

-Republicans!

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 33 pts · 182d

they're definitely not here to protect children; only the rich.

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d

They sure taught those kids to respect the police.

decapitae@sh.itjust.works · 70 pts · 182d (9 replies)

Great, nazis on the police force. Actively going out to harrass and assault citizen youth for exercising constitutional rights..

Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 182d (8 replies)

The "conservative" self-selection in the police force has been going on since at least the civil rights act, probably longer/forever, but it's a real issue that I have no idea how to address. In Oregon during BLM protests, police were coordinating with Vancouver brown shirts AKA proud boys crossing state lines to hurt protesters.

We'd be in much better shape if non-Bs wanted to be Cs, but who would in this system?

Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 181d (3 replies)

All cops are bastards because the role of a cop is to be a bastard. When you have a monopoly on violently enforcing the law as you interpret it in the moment, when you can't structurally be held accountable because society depends on your monopoly for security, you can't be anything else. Conservatives are drawn to the role because the role is the embodiment of conservatism; "that there are those who the law binds but does not protect, and those who the law protects but does not bind".

Oregon cops cooperating with proud boys is in their job description; to use their own judgment to determine when to cooperate with criminals to catch bigger criminals, like letting someone off the hook for shoplifting to catch a murderer. Whatever personal prejudices they have, they are unaccountable for and expected to act on.

Police abolition is the only answer. Deconstruct the role of police, taking the benefits that police are supposed to provide and spreading them out among multiple different roles. It already happened with medieval English sheriffs, it's time for another update.

TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 181d (2 replies)

I'm having a lack of imagination. How do you see this working out?

Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 178d

There is a lot of literature on police abolition that I haven't read, so there is a lot I don't know. But basically, you reduce crime by reducing income inequality; by providing as many basic needs as you can to everyone; by fighting discrimination; by helping children escape abusive situations; by supporting people going through difficult times; by producing clean drugs and giving them away for free while offering addiction support; by punching nazis; by abolishing prisons and replacing them with house arrest, reintegration tracks, psychological support, restorative justice processes, etc.; by decriminalizing poverty; and more.

And then if someone is having a public psychological crisis you send a psychologist; and if people are having a conflict you send a mediator/de-escalation; and if there is a domestic dispute you send domestic violence experts with a hotel room available; and if people get into a fight you send a bouncer; and if someone got murdered you send detectives; and if someone is doing a mass shooting you send a tactical unit.

Rather than 911 only having firefighters, ambulances, and cops, it could have a large number of emergency services for a large variety of emergencies.

This wouldn't be perfect. Crime would still exist. But there would be less of it than now.

moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 181d

Ignoring "police duty" notices like people do for jury duty now

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 181d

US police force basically sprung into existence as a slave catching operation. It's built in

Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 181d (2 replies)

Non-Bs?

Tower@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 181d

non-Bastards wanted to be Cops

Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 181d

From "ACAB"

natecox@programming.dev · 63 pts · 182d (1 reply)

“Why is it always little girls they pick fights with,” he asks rhetorically.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 182d

Old, balding dude who can't get up still lost.

hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 182d (2 replies)

so like an off-duty police officer assaults someone as a civilian and isn’t charged…. damn

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 44 pts · 182d

Assaulted a child.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 181d

assaults a child unprovoked and then the first thing the actual police do is pull off the people defending the victims, not restrain the attacker

disregardable@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 182d (1 reply)

So, you can't just ask the school what the kid's name is? You absolutely had to physically assault a child to issue the ticket then and there?

TrumpMAGA@lemmy.today · -9 pts · 182d

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Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 182d

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Zirconium@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 182d

First thing cops did was try to grab the girls first, both in the first seconds and then later when they escalated

Etterra@discuss.online · 27 pts · 182d

Time for another lawsuit. Of course that'll just result in a bigger police budget next year. It's horrifying how much the cops are willing to repeatedly do bad things, get sued, and pay the victims rather than just take steps to prevent abuse. They'd rather spend 10x (or more) more in lawsuit settlements than retain their people.

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 181d

Someone knows where the police chief lives. Just saying...

Grimy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 181d

Tan shirt dude got rocked lol. Legit dazed at the end. I'm happy kids are standing up for themselves.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 181d

maybe the kids will be alright

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 182d (1 reply)

Those kids fought back more than any other protestors I've seen

HubertManne@piefed.social · 7 pts · 182d

then you have not seen many.

Hello_there@fedia.io · 14 pts · 182d

He's leaking. Lol