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by joshuamorton 1596 days ago
> no knock warrants are not the police's fault.

The no-knock raid that killed Amir Locke around a week ago was done at MPDs insistence, despite a moratorium on no-knock raids being in place.

> the police are literally using all the tools at their disposal that the law allows them to.

Police departments regularly threaten lawmakers and their families (this has happened in SF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Police_Departmen...) and NYC (https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-attacks-nypd-for-threate...).

Police departments regularly break the law, but they can't be punished because, well, who is going to arrest the police?

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There's a small amount of people in every single profession and walk of life who break the law. I mean look at priests.

That's just human nature and is a constant throughout all time. they need to be punished but the extent of the rot.

The most critical problems in my opinion are when the system itself is rotten.

A no knock warrant is much scarier than a handful of cops who lie.

Because the system does not punish them for their actions.

it sanctions more than just a bad seeds.