Originally published at: It's hard to get neo-Nazi cops fired. Too hard. | Boing Boing
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Feature, not a bug.
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Cleveland has been under a consent decree for a while now and that should have been our opportunity to to clean up a force that has been consistently evil for decades. We haven’t even been able to get the dress code to ban swastika tattoos. Our big improvement on that front is that all extremist tattoos have to be covered. Actual accountability is miles in the future.
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The world doesn’t need cops. It never did. In the US of A they were recruited from white supremacist slave catchers in the South and racist bully-boy gangs in the North. Cops have never been any more than the personal security and para-military militias for their wealthy and powerful patrons. They neither serve nor protect the public from crime or harm. They take their marching orders from their union bosses, from politicians and the for-profit prison system. Currently they are the largest source of bigoted, treasonous seditionists filling the ranks of domestic terrorists, a group identified as the biggest threat to national security in the US of A. What the world really needs are peacemakers: individuals recruited for their people skills, their empathy and their willingness and desire to intervene when requested and de-escalate situations where people are at risk of causing injury and harm to any member of the public. They will coordinate with medical professionals trained in harm reduction and social workers who specialize in helping the marginalized and dispossessed.
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This problem won’t get better until community self-defense starts visiting these officers at their homes. At night.
Our systems all exist for one primary reason: propogate the system. Another few decades of voting Dem ain’t gonna be what fixes this.
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Springfield, truly Anytown, USA
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Chances of getting justice in these cases by working within the system: Near zero.
Adding a bunch a of publicity to the mix helps. A little. But it requires that someone in the chain of command has a conscience, or the ability to be embarrassed, traits that are bought out, weeded out, or drummed right out of our dear leaders.
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Portland had a known Nazi on staff for fucking decades…
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