It's taught. It's the culture and history of police. When the elites need to put down the peasants they use the police. When they needed workers for the fields, they used police, when they wanted to criminalize sexual behavior, they used the police, lynch minorities, police, see the pattern?

No. Unfortunately I made nothing of that up.

Why do you think I made that up?

I genuinely am very interested to know why you think I would make something like that up, this is not a rhetorical question.

Here is a link and a a translation of part of the article:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/politie-sjoemelde-met-geurproeven-verdacht-vaak-wees-de-hond-de-dader-aan~bb7b11f2/

"From an old research report, it now appears that the smell test has been manipulated for decades in order to get the suspect convicted. At the time, the Public Prosecution Service did not see this, or did not want to see it. Nevertheless, a scent dog had identified a suspect as the perpetrator several times, although it was later proven that he could not have committed the crime."

"The police officers who admitted in 2006 to the court in Leeuwarden that they never conducted a blind scent test consistently wrote in all official reports that they had done so."

"We already knew long before 1997 that police dog handler Kobus S. could guarantee a positive result," says former detective Jan Paalman. "Kobus could turn a weak case into a strong one."

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He's not a dog - this isn't special - dude drove for a couple hours. That's some peoples' commute

Nah. He was "A running"

Does seem a little odd to leave wallet and phone though. It's not like they're going yo be able to track him if he took those with.

Or go to the police department where you end up and tell them you're not missing.

It's the latter. People are not changed. The coverage of them has.

We finally see all of the best and worst and absurd that people do.

It's interesting you use this example because I personally know someone who was convicted of a felony for assaulting a nursing home resident in their capacity as a caregiver. Evidently an old person got combative, things escalated, and it got physical. It was an open and shut case. That patient's senility cannot be seen as an excuse for what happened. A cop doing this should be subject to the very same justice.

I hope the local prosecutor is serious.

In many cases, they're not, and they complete support the police behind closed doors.

> It's still not clear how McCourt got to Texas or why he left his home.

I lived in Little Rock and even I wouldn't go to Texas to get away from there, but I understand

99% of the investigations end in no fault found with Tesla, or that it was only 2 cars out of millions like the steering wheel issue. Tesla also self reports issues due to the telemetry they collect on their entire fleet that no other manufacturer does.

I didn't listen to the podcast, I watched the Netflix documentary. They focused a lot on "not proven guilty," which I agree with. Innocent is a whole other thing.

Just a couple bad apples is all.

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Damnit. You beat me to it.

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Yup. The important thing is that the crooks are held accountable. It will take a long time to clean up police and even then we will still have crooked cops. The key is that the crooks are banished from the police force and prosecuted.

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I'm just not sure which is more true:

• There's more bad cops now, because the system has become a factory for them.
• We're more aware of police misbehavior now, because they are more recorded.

Thin blue line people like to ignore that. They don't mean back ALL cops, just the pro fascism ones that support overthrowing the government and people.

That's why I wrote the last half because actual soldiers have better rules of engagements against even terrorists than police officers have against their own fellow Americans.

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How does one go about that? Go to the local police station and say "I got a new job far away and I'm moving without letting family know. So if there's any missing persons report on my name, know I just moved"?