Wasn't able to find a news article surprisingly.
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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
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• Know your rights: Filming the police
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• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
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I don't get the new trend of manual word censoring at all. It is so strange to me how people sensor sex as s*x for instance. Whyyyy??
I think there is a lot of Mythos surrounding "the almighty algorithm" and getting fewer views on posts containing words advertiser's don't want associated with their products.
they're trying to appease their God. the great algorithm.
Lots of people get in the habit of doing that if they are content creators as depending on the platform you can get demonitized or have your video quietly suppressed. Most of this happens automatically by filters or transcriptions, and is opaque to creators so its hard to tell what is allowed. So if you are an Instagram creator or youtuber you can build the habit of preemptively censoring words you think might get flagged.
This trickles out to content consumers as well though - some of my younger friends always do these replacements everywhere, and they're definitely not a content creator. Exposure to a speech pattern will inevitably influence your own.
Please note I'm not passing a value judgement like "kids these days", just pointing out that not everyone who does this is a content creator.
Self-imposed 1984 type of stuff, right there. I don't get it either. Makes me feel like we're pulling ourselves into some crazy pants alternate reality
Everyone is telling you about the algorithm punishing any non-sanitized content, but I'd like to present a slightly less worrying reason why people do it: to avoid getting harassed by chuds searching for topics like 'rape' and 'nazi' and starting arguments.