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Would there be a penalty for wrongly calling 911, if your idea came to pass? It's an idea to consider.
I'm tired of being interrogated wherever I go. If you make it too hard for folks to report 'real crimes', not just suspicion, you could end up with nobody reporting any crimes.
Perhaps we should stop having cops come to schools to train children that cops are good guys, although the truth is that a lot of cops are good guys, but this racism crap is evidently a real problem, one that appears somewhat institutionalized.
I think that the biggest part of the problem lies in the close relationship between prosecutors and the police. They're "buddies", while the rest of citizens, are, well, "unknowns" at best.
I remember once, years ago, going to a neighborhood grocery store everyday, the checkers and managers all knew me, I'd been shopping there mostly one evening everyday for several years, back when I tended to purchase that evenings meal and only that evening's meal. One day I was assaulted in the parking lot, and someone called the cops. The guy fighting me left, but I stayed. I wasn't injured. After the cops got there, I overheard the store manager say, about me, "We don't know him." I never shopped there again, they only knew me when I was handing them money, every damn day, but when a cop was there, a different "truth" appeared.
My point is, this "We don't know you" crap is not limited to just prosecutors and citizens, it seems a larger issue with corporations as well.
That's basically the same thing here. The folks that live in the towns served by the police all pay their taxes, the local, state, and federal government "knows" them, they know where they live, their names, their income tax or W-2 information, social security, the whole e-surveillance thing, etc. Yet, when it comes time for a cop-murdered citizen's family to get justice, "We don't know you." Let's collect the "evidence". blah blah blah. Government knows them just fine when the citizen is paying taxes.
Why isn't that enough for the citizen to have an equivalent "buddy buddy" relationship with the local DA? Instead, "We don't know you," and "Let's look at the evidence." Oh, damn, you gave away a cigarette on the street. Criminal. Death penalty. Oh, you maybe walked out of the store without paying. Criminal. Death penalty. Cop dislikes they way you look. Criminal. Death penalty. Etcetera.
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