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Good riddance to bad rubbish. I look forward to the day that feculant piece of human garbage that has been disgracing the office of President for the last four years is finally ejected. I only have two questions: (1) Will the big orange turd concede before Jan 20 and leave with a tiny shred of dignity, or will federal marshals have to drag him out of the White House crying and ranting? (2) Upon being evicted, will the turd defect to his buddy Putin for protection from all the criminal prosecutions waiting for him here in the U.S., or will he stay and try to pretend that ex-presidents are above the law?

cross-posted to my Facebook
dragoness_e: Living Dead Girl (Living Dead Girl)
The problem is not ACAB, because ACAB is demonstrably false. The problem is toxic workplace culture.

Toxic workplace culture in a retail business that sells thinggummies at worst results in all the highly-employable workers getting jobs elsewhere, the narcissist, racist, misogynist and/or generally abusive management running the company into the ground, and the less-employable workers living stress-filled lives in retail hell, and helping run the company into the ground because they don’t give a damn about the managers or the company owners any more. It does not generally result in dead bodies, however.

Toxic workplace culture in an organization that specializes in using lethal force to enforce “business practices” it prefers, whose employees have no accountability to anyone and generally can’t even be fired, and doesn’t need to keep customers happy to stay in business? The non-toxic “employees” will rapidly leave, and this toxic workplace will actually attract MORE toxic employees. And innocent people will die.

If a specific police department has a toxic culture, then yes, All Cops (in that P.D.) Are Bastards. If a specific police department has a healthy workplace culture, then ACAB does not hold.

The only way to clean up a completely toxic workplace culture is to destroy it. Fire everyone, tear apart and restructure the organization, and rehire only those people who may be salvageable. (This sometimes happens in corporate mergers, when the buyer’s corporate culture is not compatible with the bought-out company’s culture).

NYPD appears to be really toxic, as does the Seattle PD, Atlanta PD, and, of course, Ferguson’s PD.

A non-toxic, mostly healthy workplace culture can be made healthier through things like re-training and better policies. We do need some law enforcement, because some non-cops are bastards. We don’t need toxic police departments that are worse than the criminals; and healthy police departments do not need to and should not be burdened with responsibilities outside their main job just because the city or state doesn’t want to pay for mental health services, education, tax collection, emergency responders, etc, etc, etc.

Essay originally posted as a response to someone's Tumblr post, but I think this stands on its own and needs to be said.
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...When Obama talked about change, I really didn't think he meant "Bring back the Nixon White House" (and the Hoover-era FBI).

As someone who is old enough to remember Nixon's heyday, the parallels are disturbing:

- Enemies List
- Illegal surveillance of U.S. Citizens
- Use of federal law enforcement agencies to harass political enemies
- federal intelligence agencies that consider themselves above the law
- a "Justice" department that makes up the law as it goes along....

Even Nixon didn't use the military to assassinate U.S. citizens, though. That we know of.

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