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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Everybody should acknowledge that policing is a necessary and difficult job. It'
> * Police lying on the witness stand is so rampant it has a name: "[testilying](https://truthout.org/articles/lying-is-a-fundamental-part-of-american-police-culture/)"
> * [Police can and will lie to you](https://www.snyderlawyer.com/blog/ways-police-can-lie-to-you/), especially if you're ignorant of the law. But if you lie to them, you'll be arrested.
> * [Police officers launder evidence through illegal government surveillance](https://archive.org/details/ParallelReconstruction) to fight the failed war on drugs.
-> * Local police departments use [powerful surveillance technology](https://www.eff.org/issues/street-level-surveillance) to [invade your privacy without a warrant](https://www.eff.org/issues/street-level-surveillance).
+> * Local police departments use [powerful surveillance technology](https://sls.eff.org/) to [invade your privacy without a warrant](https://sls.eff.org/).
> * [Police departments partner with scAmazon's corporate mass surveillance network to circumvent your 4th amendment rights.](https://www.cancelring.com/)
Some police carry this attitude that they can do no wrong because all they do is in the service of a greater good. If they lie as a witness, they're just doing what's necessary to put away the bad guy. If they trick and manipulate suspects, they're just trying to keep everybody safe. If they launder evidence or circumvent 4th amendment protections via mass surveillance, they're just doing what's necessary to find the dangerous criminals.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Police apologists will say "But it's not their fault that they don't get enough
> * Police have spent 40 years blowing trillions of dollars ruining people's lives over drugs and causing the prison population to explode. All the while [drug use rates have remained constant](https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/sentencing-reform/war-drugs).
> * [Police infringe upon citizens' freedom to explore their own consciousness through psychedelics.](https://web.archive.org/web/20220118020130if_/https://legalizepsychedelics.com/)
-> * Police have been lying to children about drugs since the early 80's. The D.A.R.E. program even [encourages children to snitch on their parents](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education#Use_of_children_as_informants).
+> * Police have been lying to children about drugs since the early 80's. The D.A.R.E. program even [encourages children to snitch on their parents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education#Use_of_children_as_informants).
> * [Police steal more from the innocent than do thieves.](https://yewtu.be/embed/ZWvh8Ttd9eA?local=true)
Law enforcement apologists counter with "Police don't make the laws. They have to enforce the laws or else they get fired."
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ All drug enforcement agents should be looking for a different line of work, but
### The Fake War on Police
-> * Instead of listening to protesters calling for police reform, [police instead promote the myth that there's a "war on police"](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police#Allegations_of_a_%22war_on_police%22).
+> * Instead of listening to protesters calling for police reform, [police instead promote the myth that there's a "war on police"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police#Allegations_of_a_%22war_on_police%22).
There are communities which, due to negative past experiences with the police, will hate them no matter what and never trust police again. Then there are progressives like me who believe in policing, think that not having police is unworkable, but are unsatisfied with how policing is carried out and want major reform.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Callous people are less likely to give the benefit of the doubt, to forgive, to
### Promoting Undemocratic Interests
-> * [Police can search your home without your knowledge or consent if they suspect terrorism. You can be put on a terror watch list for almost anything and it's nearly impossible to clear your name.](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police#United_States)
+> * [Police can search your home without your knowledge or consent if they suspect terrorism. You can be put on a terror watch list for almost anything and it's nearly impossible to clear your name.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police#United_States)
Another problem with trust in police is that they target people whose interests are misaligned with those of the oligarchy, under the auspices of "national security". Powerful rich folks are held to a completely different standard than the poor and, thanks to money in politics, the rich write the laws. Because the law is not applied fairly to everyone and the rich write the laws to benefit themselves, people justifiably lose respect, confidence, and trust in those who enforce said laws: the police.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Another problem with trust in police is that they target people whose interests
Now that I've covered everything I still agree with, let's talk about the points I feel need correction:
-> * [Police plant evidence.](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Kathryn_Johnston)
+> * [Police plant evidence.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Kathryn_Johnston)
The way I wrote this makes it seem like police planting evidence is a regular thing, and while there are confirmed cases of it happening, nobody really knows how common it is. The handful of confirmed cases each year don't justify a mistrust of police, so I would retract this statement.
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ This is another point I would retract simply because these studies took place to
### Irrelevance
-> * [America has a long history of racist policing.](https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/what-100-years-of-history-tells-us-about-racism-in-policing/)
+> * [America has a long history of racist policing.](https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/what-100-years-of-history-tells-us-about-racism-in-policing)
Finally, the fact that police were racist historically doesn't by itself prove that there's systemic racism in modern policing nor is it a reason not to trust the police today. I'm not saying that policing doesn't currently suffer from systemic racism, just that I should have clearly stated that point if I was going to make it rather than implying it using historical events. So I would retract this as well.