Beat the rap, but not the ride. Fuck these bastards. Anyone who has ever been to court, whether criminal or civil, knows that it will fuck with you. Even if you’re completely innocent, the possibility that you will face the worst consequences of your life looms over you for months and years. I wish we had some way of getting justice against ‘bad’ arrests. Sure, a domestic violence case may fall through if the victim doesn’t want to testify, and the cop there doesn’t need to be thrown out of his job, but when a case is dropped or prosecution doesn’t even take the case? If a cop arrests someone for protesting, and then they’re simply released after 24 hours or so? That cop needs to go. And if most of a cohort of arrested folks have charges dropped, there needs to be ejections all the way up the chain of command that let it happen. We can reform the system by swiftly throwing out every cop like that, and I bet it wouldn’t take more than a year or two in this environment.
Never going to happen, but let me dream.
when a case is dropped or prosecution doesn’t even take the case? If a cop arrests someone for protesting, and then they’re simply released after 24 hours or so? That cop needs to go.
I think what actually happens is that cop gets rewarded for meeting their quotas.
It’s about power and zero accountability. The intimidation just naturally occurs.
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