LogFAQs > #967281016

Since we likely ever be able to get people on board with the idea of doing away with policing as it currently exists can we at least institute the death penalty for people like this? If people in positions of power and authority are caught abusing that power and authority they have to be held accountable in the harshest and most public way possible.

Cops do this shit because they get away with it 99% of the time. Trump did the things he did because W did the shit he did, who did what he did because Reagan got away wjth his shit, who did what he did because Nixon was never held accountable. If we had tried, convicted, and executed Nixon and Kissinger for treason after they tanked the Vietnam peace talks so Nixon could run on a platform of ending the war this country would be in a very different and much better place.

Similarly if every cop caught brutalizing the public or taking bribes got strung up, cops would actually likely do the job that people think they exist to do. Protecting and serving the public and society rather than protecting the interests of the ruling class.