A natural outcome of police being above the law.
YouTube is full of videos of police caught planting evidence.
You’d think it would destroy all police credibility everywhere but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Check out this example:
YouTube is full of videos of police caught planting evidence.
You’d think it would destroy all police credibility everywhere but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Check out this example:
As long as the police have the support of the upper class, it doesn't matter that the majority of us have lost all faith in the police.
The author shows via census data and historical research that there were towns all over America where Black people weren't allowed after sundown. This happened from the end of Reconstruction up to the civil rights era. A large amount of that was never documented, so we don't know the mechanisms. But for the places where it was, this ethnic cleansing was often directly enforced by the police or tacitly supported by them when they ignored white intimidation and violence.
Growing up in western Michigan, I had never heard of this. But it turns out many towns I was familiar with were examples of it.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/26/sundown-towns-bla...
https://youtu.be/FChlMRFEZWQ?t=180
shows cops planting MJ after searching the car when they don't find anything. And as always, the internal affairs division finds no evidence of wrongdoing and the officers are still on patrol.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-video-evidence-idU...
I'm sure there's real cases of course, just this one isn't a good example...
And to GP's point, here's an NYT investigation into a suspicious arrest from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrfZuPFrH8A
This case was debunked a while back. The cops removed an item from their car and put it back after realizing that it was nothing. The victims of the search weren't charged with anything to begin with (why would the cops plant evidence that they weren't going to "find" later to charge them with).
I actually have to give props to this department for how quickly and how well they responded to this situation and how the cops didn't escalate things when the driver started shouting about the bag to the cop. It's kind of the bare minimum but I guess that's what we've come to expect. I also hope the department will be as quick with responding in cases where the cops actually did make a mistake but I don't have high hopes.
don't get tangled up in the criminal court system if he cops do toilet you.