Most states have their own mini secret police now. These Bureau of "Intelligence" agencies do not have much oversight. Often to the agents and leadership, their cultural and political views are more important than the law itself.
I don't think we need to defund the police but they need more oversight based on certain experiences and things I've read about over the years.
The same thing happened when the Soviet Union was going through its slow collapse. KGB type agencies became more and more powerful and the average citizens suffered as a result. Many of their methods have now made it here with things like psychological torture and using the mental health system to practice punitive psychiatry.
One silver lining to having a stasi-esque surveillance state is that it watches everyone, even the crooked cops involved in a conspiracy. Unfortunately, the public in the U.S. seems to be fully onboard as we continue our descent into a fascist state.
I don't think we need to defund the police but they need more oversight based on certain experiences and things I've read about over the years.
The same thing happened when the Soviet Union was going through its slow collapse. KGB type agencies became more and more powerful and the average citizens suffered as a result. Many of their methods have now made it here with things like psychological torture and using the mental health system to practice punitive psychiatry.
One silver lining to having a stasi-esque surveillance state is that it watches everyone, even the crooked cops involved in a conspiracy. Unfortunately, the public in the U.S. seems to be fully onboard as we continue our descent into a fascist state.