Enforcers category archive
Catch 22: It’s the Best Catch There Is 0
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
More at the link.
Presumed Guilty 0
Shorter Will Bunch: “If you doubt force of racism in the U. S., meet me in St. Louis.”
Immunity Impunity
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At the Boston Review, Tracey L. Meares notes that a small but vocal movement has concluded that American policing is so broken that it must be abolished and consider their arguments.
She traces the history of U. S. police forces back to Southern slave patrols and notes the many instances, some noted in these electrons, of random police killings of unarmed civilians and of police forces’ refusal to hold their killers responsible (or, to put it another way, police administrations’ willfully aiding and abetting felony murder), then moves on to consider possible remedies. I commend the article to your attention.
Here’s a bit:
Immunity Impunity
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We are told that, “if you see something, say something.”
Well, that certainly worked out nicely for this lady.
What the hell sickness has infected the police?
Immunity Impunity
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In The Charlotte Observer, Tonya Jameson recounts the experience of being accused at gunpoint by an off-duty policeman of stealing a car which she had legally purchased. At the time, she was in the seller’s driveway putting the new license plates on the car so it could be legally driven from the seller’s home.
The officer in question was not disciplined.
Here’s a snippet from the article regarding why the officer was not disciplined (emphasis added):
Follow the link. Read the whole thing.
Immunity Impunity
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Elie Mystal comments on the Supreme Court’s refusal to review law enforcement’s license to kill.
Immunity Impunity
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Leonard Pitts, Jr., remarks on the deployment of yet another Get Out of Jail Free card, this time via passivity.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., excoriates Attorney-General Jeff Sessions’s intent to somehow emasculate consent decrees governing how certain police departments treat Not White persons. A snippet:
In a memo released last week, Sessions worries about tarring police with the actions of a few “bad actors.” Yet DOJ investigations repeatedly found that, far from being isolated events, police abuse – unlawful stops, searches, harassment and beatings targeting African-American citizens – were endemic to the very culture of these departments. They were not flaws in the system. They were the system.