Not just people, of course, but non-compliant people. Apparently there is such a spate of people not going willingly off to jail when the cops there think they should, that NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton wants "resisting arrest" turned from a misdemeanor into a felony. He also wants DAs to stop rolling their eyes when "resisting arrest" charges are fled. He assures the public that the ability to slap someone with a felony charge for subjective behavior (or for simply disrespecting, i.e., not instantly and sufficiently complying with the orders of, a police) should not be a cause for worry, because he'll have people watching the statistics, and any cop who uses this power too often will get a talking-to … by his or her fellow cops.
No, nothing at all wrong with that picture.
NYPD Has a Plan to Magically Turn Anyone It Wants Into a Felon
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 “get around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can’t.” It would also give cops an easy way to turn victims of their own worst impulses into the worst class of criminal.
Have to keep those private prisons full to meat their contractual obligations with said corporations
Silly +Dave Hill, don't you know we must make the world safe for Police? Once everyone but the wealthy whites are in jail, it should be pretty safe out there.
It's amazing that I'm restraining myself from going into a mouth foaming rage