Maybe it wasn't a good idea to turn the police into the most overfunded and ignorant paramilitary organization in the world?
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:23 JST Carrie Shanafelt
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:17 JST Carrie Shanafelt
All I'm saying is, if I were a university president and some unarmed undergrads were disagreeing with me about where their tuition dollars are spent to support a side of an international conflict, the very last people I would call for consultation and support are the NYPD, the world's worst-trained, dumbest, cruelest, richest, most racist militia, who are sitting on a pile of war machines they are sad about never getting to use on soft-bodied civilians.
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:18 JST Carrie Shanafelt
In 2024, the NYPD budget was doubled from last year to $11B. We pay an average of over $1K per person in taxes to have these assholes harass us and hold our city hostage. Our public pool can't open because we can't afford lifeguards, but there are crowds of tooled-up cops in every subway station playing Candy Crush on their phones and forcing unhoused people to do tricks for them. And if anyone says a word about defunding, they get even more useless and violent to retaliate against the city.
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:19 JST Carrie Shanafelt
The only excuse I've heard for increased police power that makes any sense at all is that our gun laws in the US are so lax and useless that police are genuinely frightened out of their minds at all times. Hey, I have a very cool and ingenious solution for this that does *not* require every single person in the country to own multiple machine guns to be able to leave the house. In fact, hear me out, what if NO ONE had access to thousands of military-grade weapons?
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:21 JST Carrie Shanafelt
One of the many many lessons of Abu Ghraib that we refuse to learn is that when you give people no training, no oversight, no consequences, no ethical boundaries, and tell them to get 100% compliance, especially from people they hate, they will become sadistic torturers and murderers. Human beings are not compliant. Anyone who knows about human beings understands this, and most of us face consequences for exercising authority with violence. The police are making little Abu Ghraibs, everywhere.
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Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:33:22 JST Carrie Shanafelt
I grew up in the 90s when you could talk back to police. I grew up talking back to police. Learning how to refuse to obey police was one of my earliest lessons. (Talk about white privilege!) After 9/11, every single moron with a badge suddenly became a little god who must be obeyed, and now they're carrying machine guns for some reason and wearing camo for some reason, and driving miniature tanks for some reason, and they bark "you're welcome" at you for some reason. They *march* now.
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