THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour

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I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour

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THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour

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Federal Prison Industries, or UNICOR, dangles the promise of workforce readiness as it exploits incarcerated workers like me.

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I’m fairly certain they don’t actually make a profit on prison labor, and it’s just something to do to keep busy or build up good boy points with the administration.
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  US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance
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  That was your takeaway from this article?
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.

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