American police are out of control — 2/10

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

Alabama: Marshall County deputy resigns after domestic violence arrest

Arizona: It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive is the warehouse that’s about to become a concentration camp

California: ICE detention center captives are throwing lotion bottles wrapped with notes to organizers outside facility

California: Pregnant woman abducted by ICE, disappeared

Connecticut: Woman who died of cocaine and fentanyl in Waterbury jail cell had not been monitored according to department policy

Connecticut: Inmate dies at hospital after being found unresponsive in Newtown prison cell

Illinois: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her 5 times & gloated about it

Indiana State Police allegedly investigating death at Huntington County Jail

Maryland: County tries to get out of paying medical bills after cop chasing road racers collides head-on with innocent motorist

Massachusetts: More women accuse former Lowell cop of using police records to solicit dates

Four State Police academy staffers face involuntary manslaughter charges in death of recruit

Michigan: On-duty cop kills himself at church

‘He shot my truck up!’: Detroit cop shoots black woman six times, his boss goes on TV to blame her — until he sees the bodycam

Minnesota: St. Louis County Jail inmate dies days after being found unresponsive in cell

ICE plans to build mega warehouses — concentration camps — for immigration detention spark growing concern

“Uptick in abductions”: ICE ramps up targeting of Minneapolis legal observers

Appeals court greenlights Trump admin’s illegal policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without opportunity to seek release

ICE denies women in custody pads and tampons, forcing them to bleed or improvise using toilet papers and rags

ICE pulled this man from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had multiple skull fractures, brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter, and they announced that he’d “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall”

‘I felt hopeless’: Hmong refugee from Minnesota is stranded in Texas after release from ICE jail

Swapped, covered and removed: The license plate tactics ICE is using in Minnesota

DHS claimed they shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel. All the evidence says they’re lying.

Secret Police are lying — about everything

ICE dragged me from my car after I told agents I’m autistic. I thought, ‘I just have to make it through this alive’

‘I saw everything’: Woman speaks out after ICE shot and detained her partner in north Minneapolis

New York: Over stolen vehicle, police chase driver into fatal wreck

Ohio: Over traffic violation, police chase driver into wreck, killing passenger

Oklahoma: Inmate found unresponsive in Ottawa County jail; died in hospital

Oklahoma: Police brutality arrest defenseless man, repeatedly punch his head against concrete

Oregon: American is hospitalized after being racially profiled & ambushed by Secret Police, then abandoned roadside when attackers find passport in her purse

Oregon: Secret Police use bright lights to impede recording and legal observation while abducting woman with legal status

“That video shocked my conscience,” says Pennsylvania police chief: Officer on paid leave after video shows his police vehicle hitting naked man

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas

Excerpt: Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center… There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide… Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food…

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school

Without warrant, Secret Police break into a home and assault the occupants

Despite valid US work permit, ICE forged Massachusetts man’s signature on deportation docs, has held him in prison for five months

Lawsuit accuses Washington detention center staff of assault, sexual abuse

Asylum-seekers at the Center for Victims of Torture say ICE reminds them of what they escaped

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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