But fleeing in it of itself, is a crime. … but if fleeing wasn’t illegal, you could just run from police, they can’t stop you.
Well that’s not true. Obviously the police can chase you and arrest you. We’ve already established they can place you under arrest at any time for any reason. Why does it matter if they get a workout first? Why is fleeing a crime in and of itself? Shouldn’t the actual crime be the crime? Trying not to have your life exploded is just a human reaction. Burglary is a crime. Fleeing is human. Criminalizing humanity is just another way to abuse power.
Body Cameras are nice. When they’re aimed correctly, or turned on, or even exist in that police department. But the problem remains that a police officer need do nothing but accuse you and rough you up. Even with a body camera that gets a conviction. Unsurprisingly 5 guys pretending to wrestle a 100 pound drug addict sells to a jury. Compliance does not matter. You can be the most compliant person in the world. They can accuse you of letting your body become dead weight. If you try to help them then you’re actively resisting. Either way gets you face down with a taser in your ass.
And yeah the Brady list, for cops caught lying in court. A good district fires those cops. An average district just has a different cop go to court and lie for them, and a bad district just puts them on the stand anyways. I’m not sure what you thought the punishment was but for many police forces in the US the “punishment” is not having to put on your dress uniform to go to court anymore.
Having empty cans is “open containers” in every state I’ve lived in.
Your thought experiments are nice, but the police aren’t acting in good faith. The laws and thought experiments assume police act in good faith and it’s just not true.
probably because often times it involves fighting and physical resistance, and in a number of other instances dangerous actions that can potentially put other people in a position of harm.
If fleeing wasn’t a crime, an officer could initiate a traffic stop, and you could just not stop. Theoretically you could also make a law that says “if initiating a traffic stop, the individual must also stop, otherwise they are illegally fleeing” oh wait, that sounds familiar.
This is like arguing that not paying your taxes on time is perfectly legal because you paid them after the fact.
Trying not to have your life exploded is just a human reaction.
yeah, and to my knowledge, most people normally try to do this by being a polite and cordial individual who doesn’t intentionally cause problems.
Fleeing is human. Criminalizing humanity is just another way to abuse power.
i mean, fighting is also human, and so is freezing. And if we’re getting to the level of criminalizing humanity. Than i could very argue that we shouldn’t criminalize rape because rape is a distinctly human experience, and it’s an abuse of power to wield that crime over someones head, for something as human as rape.
Body Cameras are nice. When they’re aimed correctly, or turned on, or even exist in that police department. But the problem remains that a police officer need do nothing but accuse you and rough you up. Even with a body camera that gets a conviction. Unsurprisingly 5 guys pretending to wrestle a 100 pound drug addict sells to a jury. Compliance does not matter. You can be the most compliant person in the world. They can accuse you of letting your body become dead weight. If you try to help them then you’re actively resisting. Either way gets you face down with a taser in your ass.
yeah, agreed, and these are all micro technicalities here. The sun is nice, until you get sunburnt, the road is nice, until you fall on it, and scrape your knee. Cars are nice, until you get into a wreck and your shit gets imploded. Frankly if we’re talking about injustices against humanity, i think capital punishment is probably a bigger problem, considering that numerous people, every year are wrongly executed.
Having empty cans is “open containers” in every state I’ve lived in.
it has to depend, if it’s just sitting in your cupholder or something, that’s pretty suspect, but if you’ve got cans crushed up and stomped into a garbage can or something, to be recycled, that’s gotta legal. Otherwise doing literally anything other than throwing away empty beer cans would be a crime, and i’m almost certain a significant number of people recycle beer cans and bottles.
Your thought experiments are nice, but the police aren’t acting in good faith. The laws and thought experiments assume police act in good faith and it’s just not true.
which would be why the police aren’t the only thing that determine your criminal status. Most police would realistically be operating in good faith, because at the end of the day, arresting someone means paper work, and also means transporting that person, as well dealing with any potential court hearings. It’s less work to just let someone off the hook with a ticket or citation, than it is to arrest someone. And if police are not to be trusted, i see no reason for them to do more work than needed.
Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It’s a civil offense. There’s no reason to get a police officer involved at all. If they’re driving erratically then it falls under the same heading as running away from any other crime. The erratic driving is already the crime. There’s no reason other than, “peasants must obey” to outlaw fleeing. They’ve already committed a crime and already need to be apprehended. Making them double need to be apprehended doesn’t help society in any way.
Rape isn’t a human experience. There’s no “rape reflex” in our heads. That’s jumping to an extreme and illogical.
Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it’s the entire fucking point.
And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.
They don’t get their overtime by doing nothing. Only “earners” get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too. When Phoenix City officials in Arizona decided to not renew the Maricopa County Sheriff’s contract because of all the shit Sheriff Arpaio was doing he straight up harrassed them. Then he tried to do it to the Maricopa County board and several prosecutors as well. It’s only because it’s an elected position that he was taken care of eventually. And that’s just the one I saw personally. These cases are all over the place. If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.
Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It’s a civil offense.
i suppose it could also be obstruction, that’s usually reserved for outside influence though. Or the odd case where something like resisting doesn’t work.
In regards to your recommendation of what is essentially botnet spying on people, i’m going to have to give you a hard pass there. Cops very well could do that, and i suppose they could file for a ticket manually, but doing that automatically is a massive privacy violation, and insanely capable of being abused.
Rape isn’t a human experience. There’s no “rape reflex” in our heads. That’s jumping to an extreme and illogical.
i mean yeah, but it is also, a literal human experience. Which is what you used to define the prior statement. It’s a uniquely human experience and i don’t think you could classify it as anything else, considering that we developed an entire language, and then a word specifically for it, and have laws relating specifically to it.
Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it’s the entire fucking point.
the specifics of them being used that way is, the broader existence of that concept is a more macro technicality.
And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.
fascinating.
They don’t get their overtime by doing nothing. Only “earners” get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too.
i suppose so, but idk what you really want me to say about it.
If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.
this is a correctional facility issue more broadly i would argue, i have significant issues with prison/jail and the way it works myself.
The system is not on your side.
i find it ironic, that you say this, and then argue for a system that literally spies on its own people, but you do you i guess.
Well that’s not true. Obviously the police can chase you and arrest you. We’ve already established they can place you under arrest at any time for any reason. Why does it matter if they get a workout first? Why is fleeing a crime in and of itself? Shouldn’t the actual crime be the crime? Trying not to have your life exploded is just a human reaction. Burglary is a crime. Fleeing is human. Criminalizing humanity is just another way to abuse power.
Body Cameras are nice. When they’re aimed correctly, or turned on, or even exist in that police department. But the problem remains that a police officer need do nothing but accuse you and rough you up. Even with a body camera that gets a conviction. Unsurprisingly 5 guys pretending to wrestle a 100 pound drug addict sells to a jury. Compliance does not matter. You can be the most compliant person in the world. They can accuse you of letting your body become dead weight. If you try to help them then you’re actively resisting. Either way gets you face down with a taser in your ass.
And yeah the Brady list, for cops caught lying in court. A good district fires those cops. An average district just has a different cop go to court and lie for them, and a bad district just puts them on the stand anyways. I’m not sure what you thought the punishment was but for many police forces in the US the “punishment” is not having to put on your dress uniform to go to court anymore.
Having empty cans is “open containers” in every state I’ve lived in.
Your thought experiments are nice, but the police aren’t acting in good faith. The laws and thought experiments assume police act in good faith and it’s just not true.
probably because often times it involves fighting and physical resistance, and in a number of other instances dangerous actions that can potentially put other people in a position of harm.
If fleeing wasn’t a crime, an officer could initiate a traffic stop, and you could just not stop. Theoretically you could also make a law that says “if initiating a traffic stop, the individual must also stop, otherwise they are illegally fleeing” oh wait, that sounds familiar.
This is like arguing that not paying your taxes on time is perfectly legal because you paid them after the fact.
yeah, and to my knowledge, most people normally try to do this by being a polite and cordial individual who doesn’t intentionally cause problems.
i mean, fighting is also human, and so is freezing. And if we’re getting to the level of criminalizing humanity. Than i could very argue that we shouldn’t criminalize rape because rape is a distinctly human experience, and it’s an abuse of power to wield that crime over someones head, for something as human as rape.
yeah, agreed, and these are all micro technicalities here. The sun is nice, until you get sunburnt, the road is nice, until you fall on it, and scrape your knee. Cars are nice, until you get into a wreck and your shit gets imploded. Frankly if we’re talking about injustices against humanity, i think capital punishment is probably a bigger problem, considering that numerous people, every year are wrongly executed.
it has to depend, if it’s just sitting in your cupholder or something, that’s pretty suspect, but if you’ve got cans crushed up and stomped into a garbage can or something, to be recycled, that’s gotta legal. Otherwise doing literally anything other than throwing away empty beer cans would be a crime, and i’m almost certain a significant number of people recycle beer cans and bottles.
which would be why the police aren’t the only thing that determine your criminal status. Most police would realistically be operating in good faith, because at the end of the day, arresting someone means paper work, and also means transporting that person, as well dealing with any potential court hearings. It’s less work to just let someone off the hook with a ticket or citation, than it is to arrest someone. And if police are not to be trusted, i see no reason for them to do more work than needed.
Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It’s a civil offense. There’s no reason to get a police officer involved at all. If they’re driving erratically then it falls under the same heading as running away from any other crime. The erratic driving is already the crime. There’s no reason other than, “peasants must obey” to outlaw fleeing. They’ve already committed a crime and already need to be apprehended. Making them double need to be apprehended doesn’t help society in any way.
Rape isn’t a human experience. There’s no “rape reflex” in our heads. That’s jumping to an extreme and illogical.
Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it’s the entire fucking point.
And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.
They don’t get their overtime by doing nothing. Only “earners” get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too. When Phoenix City officials in Arizona decided to not renew the Maricopa County Sheriff’s contract because of all the shit Sheriff Arpaio was doing he straight up harrassed them. Then he tried to do it to the Maricopa County board and several prosecutors as well. It’s only because it’s an elected position that he was taken care of eventually. And that’s just the one I saw personally. These cases are all over the place. If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.
The system is not on your side.
i suppose it could also be obstruction, that’s usually reserved for outside influence though. Or the odd case where something like resisting doesn’t work.
In regards to your recommendation of what is essentially botnet spying on people, i’m going to have to give you a hard pass there. Cops very well could do that, and i suppose they could file for a ticket manually, but doing that automatically is a massive privacy violation, and insanely capable of being abused.
i mean yeah, but it is also, a literal human experience. Which is what you used to define the prior statement. It’s a uniquely human experience and i don’t think you could classify it as anything else, considering that we developed an entire language, and then a word specifically for it, and have laws relating specifically to it.
the specifics of them being used that way is, the broader existence of that concept is a more macro technicality.
fascinating.
i suppose so, but idk what you really want me to say about it.
this is a correctional facility issue more broadly i would argue, i have significant issues with prison/jail and the way it works myself.
i find it ironic, that you say this, and then argue for a system that literally spies on its own people, but you do you i guess.