THREAD: This video is the daily churn of injustice. A Black man arrested for "drinking beer in a parking lot" is jailed because he cannot pay $5,000 cash. He begs for release, judge says: "Thank you, go with the deputy." (1)
This isn't an issue of "good cops" or "bad cops." This video right here is most of what police do. There are more arrests each year in the US for marijuana possession than all of what police call "violent crime" combined. (2)
96% of all police time is spent on what they call "non-violent" crime. (3)
It's this daily violence and family separation that "good cops" do each day. The solution to this problem isn't "better training" or "body cameras" that cops can link to facial recognition databases. It is dramatically reducing the footprint of the policing bureaucracy. (4)
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