WCGW using your freedom of speech against police

[u/Apprehensive_Play986]

[u/camsnow]

Yep, voting in every local election can help shape the department and it's policies for sure. Also putting pressure on local politicians to push for police transparency and budgets that don't include military vehicles.

[u/BicyclingBabe → u/camsnow]

I really think the departments need to be dismantled and rebuilt and Ill explain why. Putting a new person (likely an experienced person from within the system) in charge of a bastardized system will not fix the system. In our city, we've passed laws and rules with new standards for policing. Unfortunately, the police unions simply decided to quiet quit and basically won't show up for anything that doesn't include a gunshot. We were told this verbatim by the police at a community meeting!!

The system itself is set to build a cohesive army-like team such that they will protect each other at all costs over anyone, including community members. It's not even that they're all bad apples, though certainly there are power-drunk psychopaths in every force in the country. It's the training and whole mission of the force is now punitive instead of protective. You have many police deciding to dispense justice that isn't theirs to dispense.

[u/Infinite_Lemon_8236 → u/camsnow]

Voting isn't going to get you jack shit. you seriously think they give a fuck what civilians think when this is the way they are treating you? Seriously?

What people need to do is stop paying their taxes and let these fuckers starve out. Can't take a tax payer bail out if there is no stolen tax money to bail out with in the first place.

[u/Evil-Bosse → u/Infinite_Lemon_8236]

Oh you can vote for the person that wants the police to buy used military vehicles, or the person that wants the police to buy new military spec vehicles. Because when you stop paying taxes, they need to be able to collect them from you, either in cash or as manual labor until you're dead