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user-inactivated · 3112 days ago · link · · parent · post: DOJ Finally Going To Force Law Enforcement Agencies To Hand Over Info On People Killed By Police Officers
Police forces are inherently violent, having been created to protect the Heroic Captains of Industry by keeping the rest of us in our place. The war on drugs, the specific issue we all pay attention to because "maybe we don't need cops at all" is way outside the Overton window, was entirely consistent with origins of policing in really being about suppressing black people and hippies.