1mo ago

The Minnesota Shootings and the Dangerous Trend of Impersonating Law Enforcement

www.newyorker.com

Archived at https://archive.is/9euOQ

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Law enforcement won't do the bare minimum of at least trying to not look exactly the same as an organized criminal gang.
- exactly. ice wants to dress like cartel members in plain clothes, too.
  I mean after all: Cops dressed like cops seem these days to actually be criminals cosplaying anyway…
  
  That’s the clockwork orange of it all.
  If they normalize plain clothes agents without identification performing violence, then we will allow plain clothes criminals without identification performing violence.
I applaud the author for realizing that the real threat is coming from inside the (White) House....
The politicization of law enforcement has acquired a new dimension during the ongoing immigration crackdowns, when the Administration has sometimes seemed to allow its agents to disguise their identities or affiliations so that it is often unclear to detainees whose custody they are in, or under what authority. (If the vigilantes have been encouraged to act as cops, the actual cops have also been encouraged to act a bit more like vigilantes.)
The more law enforcement on the streets the easier it is to pretend to be one. We don't need now police. We need more teachers, Mental health professionals, social workers, doctors, and moral philosophers. Not police
Anyone wearing a mask, refusing to identify themselves, and ordering people around is not law enforcement. Especially when they put their hands on people. They are criminals attempting to do harm. Respond accordingly.
THEY ARE NOT ICE UNLESS THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS SUCH.

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