• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It’s a civil offense. There’s no reason to get a police officer involved at all. If they’re driving erratically then it falls under the same heading as running away from any other crime. The erratic driving is already the crime. There’s no reason other than, “peasants must obey” to outlaw fleeing. They’ve already committed a crime and already need to be apprehended. Making them double need to be apprehended doesn’t help society in any way.

    Rape isn’t a human experience. There’s no “rape reflex” in our heads. That’s jumping to an extreme and illogical.

    Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it’s the entire fucking point.

    And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.

    They don’t get their overtime by doing nothing. Only “earners” get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too. When Phoenix City officials in Arizona decided to not renew the Maricopa County Sheriff’s contract because of all the shit Sheriff Arpaio was doing he straight up harrassed them. Then he tried to do it to the Maricopa County board and several prosecutors as well. It’s only because it’s an elected position that he was taken care of eventually. And that’s just the one I saw personally. These cases are all over the place. If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.

    The system is not on your side.