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And that's why they need to be identifiable.

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What I would like to see is a law that makes police powers conditional upon a clear display of identity, although if said display gets damaged in a scuffle it does not take away their power. Identity hidden, they're just civilians.
 
And that's why they need to be identifiable.

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What I would like to see is a law that makes police powers conditional upon a clear display of identity, although if said display gets damaged in a scuffle it does not take away their power. Identity hidden, they're just civilians.
Police ARE civilians.

Militarization of the police is dangerous and unnecessary, and their habit of referring to non-police as "civilians" is frankly disgusting.

Police ARE CIVILIANS.

To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Sir Robert Peel, founder of modern policing.
 
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed—ratcheting up his retribution campaign against his perceived enemies.

"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump made the comment as National Guard troops from Texas are preparing to deploy onto the streets of Chicago to guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from protesters demonstrating against the agents’ violent behavior toward city residents.

Pritzker quickly responded to Trump’s call for his arrest, saying he “will not back down.”

“What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?” Pritzker said in a post on Bluesky. “His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for ‘how they look.’ Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the
 
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