Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen
Might as well make this bill of rights complete and add the right to murder non-whites without consequences to it since that's already a given.<p>I will never understand how anyone can defend or support or even respect the police in the US when they are nothing more than the most powerful, most corrupt, most violent, and most murderous (we think since most figures are suppressed) gang in the country. Fear, yes. It seems to me that at least in other countries, people are less deluded about their police situation (which is generally similar, though the details may be different).<p>What we need are <i>much higher</i> standards for police conduct and independent investigation and prosecutorial forces that are strictly separated from the regular police force / prosecutors (and closely monitored for corruption) to investigate police abuses. There will be <i>plenty</i> of work for such full-time, permanent positions in every single jurisdiction given the amount of corruption and violence police cause. This idea that a police officer's testimony is somehow impervious to scrutiny, so much so that it will be accepted even when the judge knows the officer is lying needs to end. Basically, we have set up a huge, elitist "society" of cops, prosecutors, judges, and the rich people who support them who are beyond the law, not to mention justice. Of course we then get pissed off when these people talk about justice and even more so when they are either acquitted or not even charged with the serious crimes they commit, up to and including murder. Atrocious indeed.<p>Fixing this situation seems rather tricky since the layperson only has the power to vote and there are no candidates who are willing to address this problem at any level. Fixing other laws that criminalize everyday activity, while incredibly difficult, seems to be the only way to try to go about at least reducing the ability of police to insert themselves into everyday situations they have no business inserting themselves in the first place. Still, at best, it's a workaround to reduce abuse, not one to actually eliminate it or deal out justice after the fact. In the case of police, the criminals (police) always get away with it.