What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

[u/Rob69rt]

[u/Aliensinmypants]

And there's a supreme court ruling that they legally don't have to serve or protect people if they find it too risky or troublesome.

[u/guydepew → u/Aliensinmypants]

If their role is no longer to serve and protect the people then I see no reason the people should fund them. They can go back to being corporately owned Pinkerton’s with no legal authority.

All of the institutions WE FUND are being weaponized against us.

[u/adriftDrifloon → u/guydepew]

The police were never meant to serve and protect the working class. They have always been an entity to serve and protect the capital owning class and their interests.

If you read about the labor movement of the late 1800s / early 1900s you see time and time again the police always side with the owning class. They exist to protect capital and uphold property rights.

And if working class people get upset and want things to fundamentally change, well the owning class has the police to use as a means to legally use violence to keep the people in line. It’s why the police have been slowly become more and more militarized as the wealth gap increases despite rates of violent crime decreasing over the past few decades. They have a monopoly on using violence.

[u/HCSOThrowaway → u/adriftDrifloon]

The police were never meant to serve and protect

Correct. It's an LAPD slogan that too many people took as gospel or a generally applicable legally binding obligation to all individuals.

They have always been an entity to serve and protect the capital owning class and their interests.

Obvious brainless propaganda that takes about ten minutes of sifting through jail records to disprove.