America's Police Only Exist to Serve the Plutocracy

The Democratic Underground posters hated to hear this. Now I'm free to showcase all the examples of police brutality, unjust and unnecessary arrests, and the many, many times that they fail - no, epically fail, that is - to protect the public.

From CommonDreams:

One of the largest of Black Friday's 100 actions at WalMarts nationwide was in Paramount, Ca., where 1,000 union supporters rallied and police arrested nine protesters for civil disobedience, including three workers and retired pastor William Miller of the United Methodist Church. A round-up of other strikes and actions here.

And now I want to educate you about another fact: the police aren't required to protect you.

Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone

WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.