If we can’t trust the police to tell the truth about their fast food orders then how on earth can we trust them to tell the truth about anything else? The short answer to that is that most of us can’t trust the police. Black people can’t trust the police not to murder them or plant guns on them. Women can’t trust the police to take sexual violence seriously: last year, for example, the Minneapolis Police Department admitted that it had discovered 1,500 untested rape kits, spanning 30 years, in storage. Women can’t even trust the cops to have a basic understanding of female anatomy.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2020 12:56 UTC