🤬 Police protecting their own

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Here’s another example of police protecting their own so that unlawful behavior goes unpunished. However, this time the story comes from close to home: San Francisco.

Charges dropped for deputies accused of forcing inmates into ‘fight club’ [The Guardian]

How long is our society going to accept the lunacy of allowing police departments to investigate their own misbehavior? In nearly every facet of human life, misbehavior is investigated and remedied by an external party. But when it comes to the United States, for some reason the police are too holy to be held equally accountable.

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🌐 The Bottomless Pinocchio

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The Washington Post’s fact checkers have been forced to develop a new fact-check rating given the 45th president’s propensity for repeatedly stating the same lies. This new rating is called ‘the Bottomless Pinocchio‘. The Bottomless Pinocchio rating is “awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation.”

“The bar for the Bottomless Pinocchio is high: The claims must have received three or four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker, and they must have been repeated at least 20 times. Twenty is a sufficiently robust number that there can be no question the politician is aware that his or her facts are wrong.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/10/meet-bottomless-pinocchio-new-rating-false-claim-repeated-over-over-again/

The full list of Bottomless Pinocchios can be found on its own page.

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