{"id":181906,"date":"2016-02-15T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/15\/your-moment-of-daily-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:22:00","slug":"your-moment-of-daily-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/15\/your-moment-of-daily-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Moment of Daily Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/justice.gawker.com\/nypd-has-a-plan-to-magically-turn-anyone-it-wants-into-1684017767\">make the most transparently corrupt tool of abusive police officers a felony<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton <a href=\"http:\/\/animalnewyork.com\/2015\/police-commissioner-insanely-suggests-upgrading-resisting-arrest-charge-felony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urged state legislators<\/a>  to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a  misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers &#8220;get  around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can&#8217;t.&#8221; It would also  give cops an easy way to turn victims of their own worst impulses into  the worst class of criminal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In theory, a resisting arrest charge allows the state to further  punish suspects who endanger the safety of police officers as they&#8217;re  being apprehended; in practice, it gives tautological justification to  cops who enjoy roughing people up. <i>Why did you use force against that suspect, officer? <\/i>Because she was resisting arrest. <i>How do I know you&#8217;re telling the truth? <\/i>Because I charged her with it, sir. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating criticism, Bratton told the assembled lawmakers that he already had a plan to curb abuse: the department would use its CompStat arrest-tracking system to monitor officers who make lots of resisting charges that are eventually dropped, leaving oversight of the NYPD to the NYPD itself.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Making resisting arrest a felony, which makes it far more likely that people will cop a plea, because the prospect of years in prison, which means that uncovering police misconduct becomes even less likely.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal is an unalloyed evil, which is literally a blue print for a police state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD wants to make the most transparently corrupt tool of abusive police officers a felony: On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton urged state legislators to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers &#8220;get around this idea that you can resist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1041,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}