THE POLICE PROBLEM
The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.
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ALLIES
• r/ACAB
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INFO
• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom
• Killings by law enforcement in the United States
• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
• When the police knock on your door
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ORGANIZATIONS
• NAACP
• National Police Accountability Project
• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration
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Privatising penal and detention services is so bizarre. Does this happen a lot all over the world or just the US?
As an aside for people who may not realise, HIV isn't a big deal provided that you manage it with meds. I'd rather have HIV than say, back problems.
Due to recent advances in medication delivery, it's just 2 injections a year now.
For someone's health to deteriorate like that in just 2 months, I suspect that he wasn't able to keep up with his meds before he was arrested.
You're assuming he was on the bi-annual treatment, which I'm not sure would be the case - doubly so in the prison system.
Either way, they had a duty of care that they failed miserably - he couldn't just pop to the pharmacy to get the meds he needed to live (and help prevent a deadly disease spreading in the prison). This is entirely the prison's fault.
No, I wasn't assuming that at all. The article says he was on daily antiretrovirals when he was arrested.
My best guess is that he had very poor adherence prior to jail - perhaps extended periods without the daily needs. So he was on meds at that time, but you wouldn't say he was well managed.
Mostly supposition anyway.
If he was on the dailies, his protection would have tapered off pretty quickly, no? With that happening in the close, unhygienic confines of prison, results were predictable.
I'm not sure the relevance or basis for his adherence prior to jail.
It's not really relevant. I'm not trying to blame him. Just that someone close to me is on ARV and I had always thought it would take more than 2 months.
My understanding is, it would only take 3 weeks for your viral load to become clinically significant, thereafter it would take at least 6 months for your CD4 to diminish, and other viruses like the flu and herpes to take their toll.
His immune system was failing without the hiv meds, so all infections and diseases picked up while incarcerated was massively more harmful to his body than it would have been otherwise (or to anyone healthy).
Think about how dirty and unhygenic and likely over crowded these detention centres are and how little healthcare is accessible to anyone incarcerated.
There are yeasts and various skin fungi everywhere, lots of prisoners with 'minor' respiratory infections which are probably COVID, the food is the lowest quality with very poor production standards and often mould, there's very likely mould on the walls and bedding in the cells and fecal matter from toilet spray too.
It takes a few years after infection for your immune system to develop AIDS after HIV infection.
ARV prevents AIDS, most people on ARV have an immune system comparable to anyone else. The ARV is not a substitute immune system, it prevents HIV reproducing, which allows your immune system to function normally.
With all that in mind, I had assumed it would take at least 6 months after ARV cessation to die from AIDS related infections, but I may be wrong.
Prolonged extreme stress can wreck your body even if you're perfectly healthy before experiencing it, and it wrecks you faster and worse if you have any chronic illnesses.
I'm just guessing here but I don't think he was unstressed and perfectly healthy before going into prison.
That's pretty much what I said, poor adherence prior to prison.
It’s basically just the anglosphere
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
That is 10 years out of date, so more are probably in on it because capitalism is fucked like that.