gang behaviour
Police have formed gangs:
* https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/la-is-investigating...
Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s only a crime if someone is willing to prosecute you for it.
It's still a crime if you're not prosecuted for it. That just means the DA's likely in on it and the criminality is systemic. Doesn't mean the activity becomes legal.
Can you go around the DA and directly to the FBI? Because it sounds like the kind of thing the RICO act was written for.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
So basically Marcus Licinus Crassus strategy for money making is still alive, 2000 years later.
what did Crassus do similarly?
>The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.
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#84The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them. Thats the only way we're going to get rid of corrupts cops like this.
> The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments
Hoover's DOJ?
I wish I could believe that your comment was ironic. If it is, then touche, you got me. It's really good.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the shortage of cops, I am not sure there is the appetite for this. Politically, cops shaking down businesses people associate with trouble seems more palatable than exacerbating the police shortage.
What shortage of cops? Come to NYC, you'll see a seemingly infinite number of them parked on sidewalks/in bus lanes/bike lanes, hanging out in the subway on their phones, directing traffic where perfectly good traffic lights exist, harassing street vendors, etc. All while funding is being cut for actual public goods. There's no shortage of cops. There's a severe problem of misallocated resources. Their overtime budge…
New York is a very well paid police department as New York is a rich city. Other cities are not as wealthy and thus do not pay as well.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-experiencing-police-...
Re: Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
#86The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them. Thats the only way we're going to get rid of corrupts cops like this.
"The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them" Not trivial, considering a substantial percentage of elected officials are dead-set against allowing the DOJ to actually fight this kind of thing. They only approve of law and order when the law and/or order is pointed at very specific types of criminals or protests.
It's corruption all the way up.
Re: Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
#87I've seen this with NYC nightclubs as well.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, that ship has long sailed for the US. Second amendment and all.
It’s an amendment. The name says it all: it can be amended. The issue isn’t that the constitution cannot be changed. It’s that people are brainwashed into thinking it shouldn’t change.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you miss the part where the cops weren't requiring it for white ran nightclubs? That smells just a little bit like racism to me.
I saw the claim, I didn't see the evidence. The way the claim of racism was pulled way up front and the facts were buried deep makes me suspicious.
it may well be suspicious, but this is just how news articles are written [these days?]. exciting controversial claim at the front, explanation for why you should feel a certain way about said claim, some dross, maybe a tweet, then—if you're lucky—maybe, languishing at the back of the article will be some facts and a source.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like a Mafia protection racket imho. Worthy of a DoJ complaint and investigation.
what's the difference?
"a gang" implies youth staking out territory, going up against other gangs, etc. Mafia implies it's a lot more subtle, someone coming up to a business going "Nice place you got here, would be a shame if something were to happen to it". Protection racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket).