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How Helpful Are The Police Really?

They ain’t the Avengers

Despite what cop shows lead you to believe, the police don't patrol the streets actively preventing crimes before they happen. They are more often an occupying force in marginalized communities. Join us as we dismantle the propaganda that helps make cops almost immune from accountability and sensible reform.

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Please Don't Call The Cops On Kids Smoking Pot In The Park, Okay?

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Please Don't Call The Cops On Kids Smoking Pot In The Park, Okay?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but ...

If there is anything people love more than complaining about how kids never go outside anymore and are always on their phones, it is kicking kids out of public spaces like parks and malls.

On Friday, a Twitter account that posts things heard over Chicago police scanner tweeted that someone had called the cops about a group of about 15 teenagers smoking pot in a park.


I have to know. What kind of person does this? What is it that they wanted to have happen here? Did they want these kids arrested and thrown in jail? Were they frightened? Were they scared the teens may have caught reefer madness? Who looks at a bunch of kids just hanging out, smoking pot in a park and thinks "Oh, I'd better call 911! Surely the solution to this problem is sending these kids to prison for however many years." Weed is legal in Illinois (though only for people over 21), but the kind of person who would call 911 to report kids in a park smoking pot probably doesn't know that.

I have many questions here. But mostly i'd like to know what this person would have done if the police had killed one of those kids.

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Monster Memphis Cop Texted Trophy Photos Of Tyre Nichols's Battered Body

There's no reforming this.

Five Memphis police officers viciously beat Tyre Nichols and propped him up against a police car like he was a bag of used beer cans. He was bleeding, barely conscious, but still handcuffed, presumably to protect the cops who’d seen too many slasher films where the seemingly vanquished killer suddenly roars back to life.

The Memphis Police Department confirmed this week that former officer Demetrius Haley, whose name should become an epithet, admitted taking a photo of Nichols slumped against the police car. At this point, Nichols was probably already dying from his injuries, but Haley considered this as good a time as any for some non-consensual modeling.


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Memphis Cops Who Killed Tyre Nichols Lied Their Asses Off In Police Report

But how could that be?

When Memphis police officers savagely beat Tyre Nichols on January 7, they deliberately crafted a self-serving work of fiction describing the encounter. CNN reports that the initial police report filed in the hours after the fatal traffic stop "suggested he was violent and made claims that were contradicted by video."

The cops whaled on Nichols even after he was subdued on the ground, but the initial police report stated that Nichols "start[ed] to fight" with the cops and at one point grabbed one of their guns — a classic for justifying lethal force against an unarmed suspect. Police videos released last week substantiate neither of those claims.

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It wasn't much of a fight: Five armed cops punched and kicked Nichols repeatedly, which the police report doesn't mention. Instead, the report identifies Nichols as the suspect in an aggravated assault. It might've been all that blood he got on their clean uniforms.

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