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Terra Jones · @TerraTorment

156 followers · 73 posts · Server kolektiva.social

BBC News - Man freezes to death in Alabama jail's walk-in freezer, says lawsuit

In #Alabama a man who is feeling suicidal was taken to #jail, like you do, and the next thing his family knew, he was dead from hypothermia of all things. How do you get #hypothermia while in jail? All cops are bastards, however when someone who is a cop decides to not be a bastard, they stop being a cop. A corrections officer who was fired for this in retaliation, blew the whistle and released footage that gave the answer. These good old boy Alabama cops decided to lock up this suicidal man, who should have been taken to the hospital, in a walk-in freezer for fun.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64663527

The #liberal response to stories like these is to say that departments need more money for training. You cannot train people to not be fascists. Giving these people a wheelbarrow full of money "for training" so they learn that it's actually against the law and morally wrong to torture people to death for fun is not necessary because the problem was never a lack of training. Nobody was ignorant of this fact.

The problem is that the law enforcement profession has an endemic culture of bullying, petty authoritarianism, toxic bro culture, steroids, wife beating, and small people who get off on sadism. The kinds of people who are drawn to law enforcement are bullies who want to have a way to hurt people and completely get away with it. It's the job that's there to attract reactionary meatheads and always has been. For these people, violence is fun. It unfortunately does not stop being fun when the people on the receiving end of the violent stop deserving it.

More training does not help. The only thing that could reduce this violence is to find alternatives to using police for everything. The only way to reduce these incidents is to reduce the number of police. And don't fire the new people, it's actually the old cops that are the worst ones, the crooks who steer rookies into police culture. Our approach to crime should be on prevention and reducing poverty and other criminogenic conditions.

#alabama #jail #Hypothermia #liberal

Last updated 2 years ago

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Terra Jones · @TerraTorment

155 followers · 70 posts · Server kolektiva.social

BBC News - Man freezes to death in Alabama jail's walk-in freezer, says lawsuit

In #Alabama a man who is feeling suicidal was taken to #jail, like you do, and the next thing his family knew, he was dead from hypothermia of all things. How do you get #hypothermia while in jail? All cops are bastards, however when someone who is a cop decides to not be a bastard, they stop being a cop. A corrections officer who was fired for this in retaliation, blew the whistle and released footage that gave the answer. These good old boy Alabama cops decided to lock up this suicidal man, who should have been taken to the hospital, in a walk-in freezer for fun.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64663527

The #liberal response to stories like these is to say that departments need more money for training. You cannot train people to not be fascists. Giving these people a wheelbarrow full of money "for training" so they learn that it's actually against the law and morally wrong to torture people to death for fun is not necessary because the problem was never a lack of training. Nobody was ignorant of this fact.

The problem is that the law enforcement profession has an endemic culture of bullying, petty authoritarianism, toxic bro culture, steroids, wife beating, and small people who get off on sadism. The kinds of people who are drawn to law enforcement are bullies who want to have a way to hurt people and completely get away with it. It's the job that's there to attract reactionary meatheads and always has been. For these people, violence is fun. It unfortunately does not stop being fun when the people on the receiving end of the violent stop deserving it.

More training does not help. The only thing that could reduce this violence is to find alternatives to using police for everything. The only way to reduce these incidents is to reduce the number of police. And don't fire the new people, it's actually the old cops that are the worst ones, the crooks who steer rookies into police culture. Our approach to crime should be on prevention and reducing poverty and other criminogenic conditions.

#alabama #jail #Hypothermia #liberal

Last updated 2 years ago

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