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Western Police-Prison Logic

A critical term for the informal, self‑serving logical framework that justifies and rationalizes Western policing and incarceration systems, even as it condemns similar practices elsewhere. Unlike formal logic, Western Police‑Prison Logic is selectively applied and internally contradictory: Western police brutality is an “isolated incident” or “bad apple”; non‑Western police violence is “systemic repression.” Mass incarceration in the West becomes “public safety” while similar rates elsewhere are “human rights abuses.” Police militarization is “necessary for officer safety” but the same equipment in other countries is “evidence of authoritarianism.” This logic absolves Western institutions of structural critique while demanding perfect accountability from others. It enables Westerners to support prison abolition for other nations while defending their own carceral state. Its rules are unwritten but predictable: when the West does it, it’s reformable; when others do it, it’s proof of cultural failure.
Western Police-Prison Logic Example: “He praised Norwegian prisons as ‘humane’ but defended US supermax isolation as ‘necessary for security’—Western Police‑Prison Logic, applying different standards to the same practice based on who runs the cell.”

canadian mounted police 

In Montreal, a jailhouse orgy in which men with names like Jacques, Claude, or Pierre handcuff an unwitting American and donkey punch him repeatedly.
Poor Scott, misunderstood the québécois and wound up on the bottom of the Canadian mounted police.

junior race police 

Someone who tries to point out racism but gets it wrong.
A: "Islamic architecture uses a lot of geometric patterns."
B: "That's racist!"
A: "No, junior race police, Islam isn't a race."

Ukrainian Riot Police 

The act of firing a shotgun breaching round at someone. The term comes from the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protest, were members of the Ukrainian riot police fired breaching rounds at pro-EU protesters
"Did you see how fucking smug Becky was today?" "Yeah. I totally want to Ukrainian Riot Police her face"

Mutha fucken police 

The mutha fucken police are behind us!
Mutha fucken police by Ugwee baby September 3, 2018

King County Police Department 

A corrupt police department in king county at Washington state. These guy's get mad at you if you carry a lighter, knife, gun, or spray paint. They can also get mad if you shoplift or fight anyone. It's common for people around here to do that though, and these dummies don't even notice most of the time.
* King County Police Department Pulls up to a Street*
*points gun at guy and tells him to get on the ground, so he does and then...*
Cop #1: *throws guy into cop car after handcuffing him*
other Cop Talking to Cop #1: I hangout with all the swat guys and we go to Las Vegas and some strip clubs
Cop #1: *laughing hysterically*
That same guy again: Oh damn what did I get myself into?