A series of legislative and judicial efforts have removed police oversight from oversight boards and communities.

  • AllNewTypeFace
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    2 months ago

    It increasingly makes sense to think of the US police not as a public service (with any caveats about who counts as the public) but as an estate that wields political power, or even a service aristocracy sort of like samurai or boyars.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    Super citizen makes them seem overly helpful and going beyond the call. Would be more honest to call them the Exempt class.