Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by toomanybeersies on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:52PM
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Non-violently resisting arrest is a crime in several states. It's ridiculous, you'd just about have to arrest yourself in order to avoid a charge like that.
Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by bobwaycott on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:02AM
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And the threshold for being charged with it is exceedingly low and seemingly not subject to review.
Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by danso on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:56PM
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I need to stop using outdated analogies, like talking about horse-carriages in the Tesla threads :)
The more recent example would be NextDoor, who learned the same lesson and experienced the same accusations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/website-nextdoor-hears-...
Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by mhurron on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:34PM
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Ya, nextdoor is a haven for people scared of other races living in their neighbourhood.
Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
by gm-conspiracy on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:09PM
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I would vote for you.
I'd love to see a cultural narrative and expectational shift in the US, through which the act of simply arresting anyone at all is seen as a gross affront that only occurs on a preponderance of evidence of provable wrongdoing, else LEO is seen as having failed to do their job, serve their community, and are held accountable. A raise in the standards of policing that includes significant penalties for arrests that lead to dropped charges, no prosecutions, provable errors, etc. I also think we need to ban layering on charges like resisting arrest and other such nonsense that have become obvious tactical weapons in LEO misbehavior with citizens. We need a serious shift from automatically granting LEO the benefit of the doubt and nearly impenetrable immunity. Hell, treat it more like we treat politicians—term limits of wielding power and renewal via community review and acceptance of officers and their behavior. This would obviously be more difficult with federal LEO, but if we could change the local forces, perhaps that'd be a good enough start in people's lives.