On-duty NYPD officers admit handcuffing teenage girl, putting her in van, and having sex with her, but say it wasn't rape

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I regularly interact with 18 year olds. They are not adults. Fuck these cops.

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Totally not related to the discussion, but the proper spelling of this word bugs the crap out of me. Consensual or nonconsensual.

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Wel, I think it’s easier to fix the police academy admission criteria and its curriculum, than to fix fascism and militarism. For one, they’re much better defined goals, and therefore easier to implement.

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So let’s settle for a kindler, gentler fascism then?

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No. They are very much human, which means that they should face the same treatment as any other human who does this.

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Sometimes the harder option is the correct one. This is one of those cases.

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American police departments make some of the worst calvados I have ever heard of.

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Sometimes the harder option is the correct one. This is one of those cases.

What would you suggest for ‘the harder option’? Something like this? Maybe I’m just understanding you wrong. What harder option do you mean (to solve the ‘fascism and militarism problem’)?

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/08/us/philando-castile-alton-sterling-protests/index.html

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Start here and build on it

It can be debated whether Britain has succeeded at following Peelian principles (In my experience, I don’t believe they have, but some cops here do take them seriously), but Policing by Consent is a key part of it. American PDs do not even attempt to police by consent, they police by coercion.

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Nope.

Harder as in “more difficult”, not “more violent”.

@anon73430903 undoubtedly has their own ideas, but this is what I’d argue for in the immediate future:

Sustained, massive, non-violent non-destructive disruptive civil disobedience. Targeted at the money of the 0.01%. Shut the country down.

It isn’t a protest, it’s a revolution.

Once the fascists are out, then we can work on undoing the damage that fascism and militarism have done to America and the world. But first things first.

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Good luck with that.

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It ain’t up to me, thankfully.

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