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[mabbo]

Police gangs are criminal gangs. The very nature of the report is that these people are committing crimes and getting away with it via their position as police officers.

It's corruption of the worst kind.

[wonderwonder]

That's the thing, they actually have less oversight. Criminal civilian gangs are harassed by police. The police have almost unlimited power, who provides oversight? If police leadership is involved, not them. On top of that police have qualified immunity. So they kill someone, and throw a gun on them. Everyone in the police department knows and is in on it. They investigate themselves and find no wrong doing. If a criminal beats you to death, the police investigate. Who investigates when the police do it and the entire department is corrupt?

[dvngnt_]

> I'd prefer police gangs be empowered rather than criminal gangs. They at least have to conform to some oversight.

aren't they the same group of people?

[sokoloff]

I think that I am personally much less likely to run afoul of a police gang than a criminal gang.

That's a practical, but not an ethical, reason for me to prefer police gangs over criminal gangs.

[ashwagary]

>I think that I am personally much less likely to run afoul of a police gang than a criminal gang.

The police gang has qualified immunity if they harm or murder you. So what's your reasoning?

[aaomidi]

Do they? What oversight exactly?

They can get away with literal murder thanks to qualified immunity.

[malfist]

How about neither?

[SketchySeaBeast]

> It describes one “chasing ink” episode in which deputies transporting a shooting victim to the hospital allegedly took an “off-route” detour and instead “assaulted the victim.” Other deputies “chasing ink,” the investigation states, have actively tried to “get into shootings.” It elaborates: “These deputies would follow a suspect believed to have a gun so that a shooting would be justified.”

If these feel justified and cops doing their jobs I don't know what to tell you.

[oblio]

You do know that cops are only supposed to arrest people, right?

There's no "beating up" as part of the official justice system, even in the US.

[ffggffggj]

Personally I’ve never been a “trade civil liberties for feelings of security” type myself but if that’s what works for you…

[zoklet-enjoyer]

You wish cops would beat up your neighbors? That's awful