Judge Ends Federal Oversight of the Seattle Police in Liberal City. Nothing Will Change So Long as Police have the Unjust and Evil Power to Use Force Offensively on People

A federal judge ended oversight of the Seattle Police Department on Wednesday, more than a decade after the U.S. Department of Justice found that officers had a history of excessive force and practices that could have a disparate effect on minority communities.

In the 13 years since a federal consent decree was put into place, Seattle’s department has adopted new use-of-force policies, begun using body cameras, changed its protocols for holding officers accountable and reviewed its crowd management tactics. The city and the federal government had first moved to begin ending the federal oversight in 2023, under the Biden administration, but the process was delayed with some lingering issues left to resolve.

U.S. District Judge James Robart said on Wednesday the city complied with its obligations on Wednesday and lifted the consent decree, a court-approved agreement. [MORE]

Nothing can ever change with regard to “excessive force” or police brutality so long as police have the power to use force offensively on “citizens.” In fact, despite the falling violent crime rates since 1993, police killings have increased. According to Mapping Police Violence, “Police killed more people in 2023 than any year in more than a decade. Police have continued to kill at a similar rate in 2024.“ Police killed at least 1,247 people in 2023. Black people were 27% of those killed by police in 2023 despite being only 13% of the population. Thus far, there have been only 9 days in 2024 where police did not kill someone. Black people are most likely to be killed by police and are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police. 33% of Black people killed by police were running away, driving away or otherwise trying to flee. Regardless of race, there is no accountability: 98.1% of killings by police from 2013-2023 did not result with officers even being charged with a crime. [MORE]

Petitioning puppeticians for reforms, or begging them to enforce the status quo by punishing police for conduct that is already illegal or begging them to defund or lower police department budgets can have no effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens. Said non-reformable and uncontrollable power to initiate the use of unprovoked violence on people is called “authority.”

As you will see, if you indulge BW here, due to the fact that "authority" is immoral and unjust and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence, the legal system is entirely based on physical coercion or violence. In other words, we are not free.

Political “authority” can be summed up as the implied right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral and legal obligation to obey.’ [MORE] Authority is the basis and operating system for all governments throughout the world, regardless of type, function or characterization. As so-called representatives of authority, police officers (among other authorities) are empowered to use force offensively against citizens who are legally and morally obliged to obey authority. [MORE]