All cops should take notice. Unless you are actively exposing the behavior of bad cops, you too are a bad cop.

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Fuck cops. From The Denver Post: Denver officials are deeply divided over the proper level of punishment for a police officer who was seen on video tackling and beating a 23-year-old man who was doing nothing but talking on a telephone outside a LoDo nightclub. Deeply divided? How the fuck can anyone be deeply fucking […]

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Is that they are fucking scumbags. With the very small exception of those cops who actively expose rampant police corruption and abuses of power, every cop is a bad cop. Even if they never once themselves engage in corrupt activities, allowing them to happen is their being complicit in them happening.

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Radley Balko’s weekly kick in the nuts: First, the dog obviously poses no immediate threat to anyone. It’s chained. Until the officer starts chasing it with a restraining pole, the dog is calmly lying on the ground. Second, even if you take the neighbor’s complaint and the police report at face value, the dog never […]

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Aren’t drug warriors awesome?  In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]

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