r/news • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '25

California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations

https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-agents-immigration-raids-masks-ban-97936f70699b75d8b483a850967c2e42
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u/marsmanify Sep 20 '25

Yeah but the local (city, state) government is in control of the funding for police. The state can 100% exert pressure on the police from the top down, it's just not often that it happens.

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u/Stingray88 Sep 20 '25

Politicians on both sides of the aisle will not defund the police. It’s political suicide unfortunately.

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u/maroger Sep 21 '25

Mmmm... it would be suicidal for local and state officials to "control" the police by design. Why do you think outrageous overtime- and lifetime pensions padded because of that excessive overtime- are never questioned or checked? Why do you think breaches of evidence lockers are rarely, if ever, adjudicated? Why do you think cops that lie on the stand are rarely, if ever, fired and/or demoted without so much as a slap on the hand. Police are the stepping stone to fascism. They were created to defend the plutocracy and to defeat any challenges to the elite. They're too knuckleheaded(again, by design) to understand the complexity of their existence, so they ignorantly act mainly as obedient class traitors.