You’d like to think so, but my dad, as law-abiding a person as you could ever meet, kept getting pulled over as he came home from work at 1AM almost every night by the local RCMP for about 2 weeks. And it’s not like he was shit-talking them and earning their ire, until maybe the 8 or 10th time, since he’ll be unreasonable friendly to pretty near anyone. It only ended when he contacted the detachment sergeant and chewed on him, then it was suddenly done.
Sometime cops are just dinks.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are many, many, places all over the US that basically fund their local government by pulling over people who don’t live there, and fining them. They absolutely abuse their authority to do this. There are so many infractions, many very vaguely worded, and broad, the cops can basically pull over anyone, just because they want to, and they do. There are also plenty of people out there with long standing video evidence of being harassed by the police, because the cops don’t like legal things they do, or don’t like their families.
ij.org/…/case-closed-pasco-sheriff-admits-predict…
If you think this is the end of these programs, prepare to be wrong.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
It’s like when a Discord moderator puts a rule that says no politics on their server. Everything is political, so now they can remove anything they don’t like with a justification.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
correct, to a point. most of the time they will only kick people for expressing extreme and highly intolerant views, or for fighting in their server over it, but theoretically they could just kick anyone who talks about any topic they don’t like under that guise. Now take this position, vague laws allowing for power abuse, power abuse is awarding to many people on its own, especially those drawn to positions of authority, then add to it training regimen that teach these practices, periodic seminars to reinforce the practice, personal profit motive to enforce this practice, and a societal structure that pressures them to do so. This is machine for shaking down down the general public under color of law.