The FBI arrests local cops surprisingly frequently, but this often looks more like a genteel gang applying pressure on a trashy gang than anything to cheer. Let me give an example from the 2008 RNC, and how the FBI pressured the local cops to raid/torture/etc us for them...

Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher has been in the, ah, news recently, but back in 2008 he was the arch villain of the RNC protests, raiding all my "co-conspirators," doing interrogations where he acted like he was on 24, and screaming to the media about terrorism.
Because Fletcher is a quintessential dipshit chud you may be tempted to believe this was all him going off half-cocked. Indeed this became kinda the media narrative, insofar as they pushed back on him at all.

The reality however is more that Fletcher was a useful tool to the FBI
First, it's important to note that the RNC (and the DNC) as a rule donate massive piles of money to local police forces at their conventions to *insure* them against lawsuits. This was the case in 2008, I don't remember the exact figure but on the order of 10 million USD.
Now the Welcoming Committee was an anarchist project to organize protest infrastructure and was aboveground and open to the public. This meant we had to deal with multiple undercovers / informants from jurisdictions often competing with each other. You just make them wash dishes!
Despite the FBI largely trying to pretend it had nothing do with the repression that came down on us some of the most pernicious infiltrators were provided to local cops via the FBI. And of course we caught FBI agents semi-secretly overseeing the raids on our houses.
But the real thing to note is that *before* Bob Fletcher flagrantly violated constitutional rights six ways from sunday, his right-hand man (even best man at his wedding) got arrested by the FBI in a targeted corruption sting.
I forget the exact details of the sting and don't feel like googling for twenty minutes, but more or less they did the shit where they run a car with broken headlights in front of his car, filled with drugs/cash, and record him doing as every cop does -- grabbing a bunch of it.
Not to be like "this is unfair to the poor cops" but this sort of sting could work on pretty much ANY cop because every cop is a selfish criminal and will grab free cash from someone when they think they can. The point is that the FBI targeted Bob Fletcher's right-hand bro.
And indeed, *kept* him under charges -- and I think even in detention -- *through* the RNC.

This kinda pressure is how the FBI instrumentalizes local cops into tools of repression. Fletcher was a chud, but to be frank, he was a *selfish* chud. The FBI forced him to take risks.
This now historical example is such a perfect microcosm of the FBI and local cops imo. Local cops are selfish and reactive. It's possible for anarchists to be too annoying for them to want to deal with. The FBI however, disciplines local cops *to keep them serving the state.*
Everyone has an example of cops being like "wtf you little shits... wait, fuck having to deal with the hassle of going after you" whether it's cops refusing to climb up after graffiti artists or cops refusing to go out into the 2008 pdx blizzard to stop the rioting bloc.
Anyway, this is all the central shit to remember when you see the FBI arresting local cops for standard corrupt/authoritarian cop shit. They could arrest pretty much EVERY cop for that shit, so we should remember that they have specific reasons for going after specific cops.

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This is a piece I've been thinking about for a long time. One of the most dominant policy ideas in Washington is that policy should, always and everywhere, move parents into paid labor. But what if that's wrong?

My reporting here convinced me that there's no large effect in either direction on labor force participation from child allowances. Canada has a bigger one than either Romney or Biden are considering, and more labor force participation among women.

But what if that wasn't true?

Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor.

The problem is in the very language we use. If I left my job as a New York Times columnist to care for my 2-year-old son, I’d be described as leaving the labor force. But as much as I adore him, there is no doubt I’d be working harder. I wouldn't have stopped working!

I tried to render conservative objections here fairly. I appreciate that @swinshi talked with me, and I'm sorry I couldn't include everything he said. I'll say I believe I used his strongest arguments, not more speculative ones, in the piece.

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Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
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Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
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The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"