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I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department. The level of police misconduct that's been captured in camera in the last few days is disturbing. There's always one police officer that rushes into a peaceful situation, from behind, and starts violence. This sort of assault on humans is taken to be their responsibility, apparently, and all the rest of the police stand idly by as one of those in their uniforms commits acts of violence against peaceful people.

I would not be shocked if a majority of the property crime was also police instigated. If they are willing to do this to people, it's far easier to knock out some windows.

>>epista+(OP)
==I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department.==

Never heard it put quite this way. Well said!

>>epista+(OP)
>> all the rest of the police stand idly by as one of those in their uniforms commits acts of violence against peaceful people.

That seems to be the problem. It's not so much that one gets out of hand, it's that they don't police themselves. If they want to stop it they'll have to begin with the smaller digressions - like speeding or illegal parking when there's no reason for it. Stop your bro from thinking he's above the law even when it's not a really big deal.

>>phkahl+xj
We need stronger whistle blower protections, laws and incentives. The only people who can police the police are the police. So society needs to create the situation where the incentives to police themselves reward them greater than the current corrupt, immature and racist rewards they reap today.

>>epista+(OP)
> I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department.

For a more organized version of the mentality, see the Constitutional Sheriffs movement. I forget where I first came across the movement but here's a top Google result about it:

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/the-army-to-se...

>>take_a+qf
Being a punctuation mark enthusiast, I’m very interested where you got that ⟨==xxx==⟩ notation from

>>Jenz+NG
I like the way it highlights a quote without having to deal with a bunch of actual quotation marks. If something you want to quote includes quotation marks it can be confusing to read (especially on mobile). It also reminds me of commenting out things when programming.

>>Jenz+NG
Looks like one of the wiki dialects.

>>Jenz+NG
I saw similar punctuation on "Forensic Files" used by a serial killer. Not that anyone who uses odd quotes is a serial killer. ~~Just sayin'~~

>>bsenft+Dn
You can't reward someone who is in power into not being corrupt and not abusing their power. You prohibit, stop and punish them. Begging only goes so far.

>>Jenz+NG
It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki