Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You know, I cannot wait to be off this god forsaken world. Death can’t come enough. What’s it gone to, when the very people we’re to “trust” are thrown into their own chaos like this.

    What good is justice when we have assholes like this guy? A convicted murder is on the stand, guilty as charged but…“YOUR HONOR…I…I HAPPEN TO NOT LIKE YOU AND BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE YOU, THIS GUY SHOULD BE SET FREE AND IN FACT, I WILL SABOTAGE MY CASE TO MAKE SURE HE IS FREE!” fuckstick comes up in defense.

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      1 year ago

      In the U.S. the first publicly funded police force was formed in Boston, to protect economic interests. The company that started it argued that police should be a publicly funded thing (even though they were just protecting their shipping yards) because it was for a common good.

      So from the beginning it was nothing more than protection of the wealthy. There’s been little change from that today. They just pretend they’re here to help.