...When people have protested issues with the police, the cops have often aimed to incite violence. Combining these, it is easy to see that the policies under which police departments have been guided may themselves be to blame for many of the problems we now face. Our prison population is now larger than those of the Soviet Union’s infamous Gulags, and the largest prison system in history. The statistics speak for themselves, revealing that the New York Police Department has been needlessly arresting people who were not criminals at all. Rather than bolstering their case, the NYPD has instead given Mayor Bill de Blasio proof that the department is indeed out of control, and not accountable to the people they are there to protect. Instead of the anticipated surge in criminal activity, the results of the work stoppage have shown that the police have been arresting needlessly...
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:09:07 +0000
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