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[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Police accountability is definitely a problem we should work on. There should be a watchdog group that has a full time staff with lawyers and investigators who can keep track of this and organize campaigns to pass new laws and regulations on police conduct. I am normally pro union but public sector unions have gone too far in eliminating accountability. It really will take new legislation to reign them in.

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There is one starting, James Freeman is a big part of the movement. They're part of the group that built and brought the huge guillotine to the Texas courthouse last year iirc, he still has the live stream on his channel.

They're now known as "first amendment audits". His channel was small when he started, but now he's traveled the USA and has a whole watchdog group put together and visits every PD and courthouse in each state and live streams every experience. If he's in a state and cops try pulling shady shit on him, literally, 10 people will come out of no where with cameras and start live streaming and the police will change their behavior quick. He didn't have that power before.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF7vSikMWThKp3Zhc2PdAmg

And he isn't one of those YouTubers or people who harass police officers or go looking for trouble for views. He just minds his business and hopes for peace while live streaming his visitations. And if police officers are good or a county has a good dept./courthouse, he's honest about it. He doesn't hide it. He also always tries to deescalate if there is a sour situation first.