Changing The Conversation To, "You're Saying, 'All Cops Are Bad' So You're A Hypocrite"

[Feral Child]

101. Then I apologize for my assumption.

As to your suggested strategy, it's the way things have always been done and it"s completely ineffective.

The piecemeal strategy you suggest, as demonstrably proved by the Ferguson/Brown case, gives policemen the opportunity to escape any penalty for murder. It's absolutely clear that the prosecutor in that case prepared a special package of materiel to present before the Grand Jury virtually ensuring a No True Bill outcome.

If this was an isolated incident, your caveat that there is no cohesive organization known as "The Police" might be accurate, but the same conditions; the same militarization, the same racism, the same profiling, the same evasion of responsibility, the same perjuries, and the same atrocities are so widespread and consistent in virtually every law enforcement department through-out the country that they may realistically be viewed collectively as one entity..

Heretofore, a by-case approach has allowed the prevailing attitude of invincibility to permeate the collective departments.

Returning to the Wilson/Brown case as an example it's clear that Wilson's entire shift, his entire department, the assisting officers from St. Louis County P.D. and the Prosecuting Attorney's office all colluded to ensure Wilson escaped charges for his conduct. They are all guilty, under Missouri state statute, of Accessory to Murder After the Fact. Yet all efforts so far and for the foreseeable future have been entirely futile. The stone wall of police corruption stands.

You say we need to consider the over half a million officers in this country individually, but I say, the people say, that all these officers bear responsibility, for malfeasance if naught else, for protecting the corrupt officers. In fact, since they have failed, time and again, to purge the ranks of the corrupt individuals, they are all guilty of violating the Oath of Office.

Thus, a comprehensive program demanding justice at every level of government, non-violently attacking "The Police" as an entity, is the only viable strategy for establishing government mandates of independent civilian oversight of all police officers everywhere. Only with such mechanisms in place can we reasonably achieve any control over rogue officers. We need to act in a collective, nationwide movement to demand the overhaul of command structures, establish control procedures such as body-cams, civilian revue boards and a federal investigation agency and develop any other tools necessary to reign in every department nationwide.

Of course, existing tools for investigating individual crimes by police agents should remain in place, but until we demand a nationwide standard of control, these individual investigations will continue to be perverted by local corruption and the alienation of the police from the body civil will continue until we have but two choices, subjugation or self-defense.