How To Prevent Cop Abuse

[jerseyjack]

Get cops to think about the effect that the publicity will have on their family and friends.

There needs to be a few signs at OWS sites like "Officer, your family and friends can see your actions on TV tonight," can work.

Shame is a powerful emotion.


I can't imagine Tony Baloney and Lt. Pike going home to face their families after the publicity. Or stopping at the local gas station. Or stopping at the local bar. Or just being seen in the neighborhood. Or in the cop shop where they made the job more difficult for their fellow officers doing the job the right way.

Web sites, signs, conversations at the sites can be directed to cops to get them to think about how they will look on tv, newspapers and so forth.

I am not sure about telling them how their home life will be disrupted when Anonymous publicizes their home address because that may be legally perceived as a threat.

[rug]

1. They're shameless.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. You underestimate sociopaths.

They have no fucking shame.

[Uben]

3. Cops have their own society....

...and they don't give a shit what you think....ever. They are programmed just like soldiers are to follow orders first. The actions they take come from command with some using their own artistic license to execute said command. In their eyes, approval comes from command and not from the public. We are the enemy....of a sort.

[alphafemale]

4. Yeah. sure. Cops CANNOT be trusted. EVER.

I taught my kids to not trust cops.

I taught them when lost to not go to a person in a uniform.....ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING!!!!

I taught them to go to a woman with other children.

btw they never needed to do that.

[RickFromMN]

5. Trying to shame people will only work on certain people. I'm afraid there have to be trials

with convictions and sufficient punishment, to act as a deterrent.

It can't be one trial or two trials either. It has to be half a dozen trials.

It has to be enough trials to act as a deterrent.

Police have to believe there are consequences to unlawful actions to stop those actions.

[meow2u3]

6. Suggestion for a anti-brutality chant

Instead of, or in addition to, chanting, "The whole world is watching", chant, "Your families are watching."

[duhneece]

8. Good idea...

I think reminders that what they are doing could be seen by the world, by their families could make them stop & think.

[lunatica]

7. Hold signs saying, "Smile. You're on YouTube."

All those cellphones people are holding are the eyes and ears of the entire world.

[qb]

9. The "They're all sociopaths" meme ignores the mass of UC Davis cops who were clearly shamed,

or at least caught off guard by chants from the crowd. You can also pick out the sociopaths who were unmoved by the protesters' anger.

[Dawson Leery]

10. They chose a line of work that protects the current order, no matter how corrupt that order is.

"The police are ordinary workers just like us; they should be our allies. Unfortunately, there’s a big gap between “should be” and “are.” The role of the police is to serve the interests of the ruling class; anyone who has not had a bad experience with them is likely privileged, submissive, or both. Today’s police officers know exactly what they’re getting into when they join the force—people in uniform don’t just get cats out of trees. Yes, most take the job because of economic pressure, but needing a paycheck is no excuse for evicting families, harassing young people of color, or pepper-spraying demonstrators. Those whose consciences can be bought are everyone’s potential enemies, not allies.

This fairy tale is more persuasive when it is couched in strategic terms: for example, “Every revolution succeeds at the moment the armed forces refuse to make war on their fellows; therefore we should focus on seducing the police to our side.” But the police are not just any workers; they’re the ones who chose to base their livelihoods upon defending the prevailing order, thus the least likely to be sympathetic to those who wish to change it. In this context, it makes more sense to oppose the police as such than to seek solidarity with them. As long as they serve their masters, they cannot be our allies; by denouncing the institution of police and demoralizing individual officers, we encourage them to seek other livelihoods so we can one day find common cause with them. "


http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/fuckpolice.php

[Quartermass]

11. Or you can KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:

From this site here:

http://flexyourrights.org/