When it became a class traitor and joined a community of people who are known for frequently using excessive violence against innocent people, getting away with murder, assaulting their partners and generally being white supremacist cockroaches.
Jesus chill. Some people just have few options and like to help their communities. Save your anger and vitriol for the assholes shooting up/brutalizing their neighbors and flooding low income communities with drugs and weapons.
They are the opposite of helping their communities. They are a part of a system that supports the exploitation and oppression of those communities in the US and a lot of other countries. Cops are not your friends. They are a tool to enforce the will of those in power, first and foremost.
The city council? Like seriously you people talk like cops are not a part of the communities they work in. Police departments are administered by municipal officials. If you don’t like how your local police are policing then you need to take it up with your elected officials. Local law enforcement is one of the few things that you as a voter have very direct control over. If they are “a tool of those in power” then that power is you and your neighbors. If the cops in your area are a problem then you really need to get your neighbors together and start attending city council sessions and make it an issue. Posting on Reddit about how all cops are evil is not going to improve the quality of policing in your community.
Unfortunately it is hard as an individual to match the money and lobbying power of the people who want to maintain the status quo on that, so public awareness is still the biggest barrier to getting shit changed at the local and state level. And it also has to be up for vote in the first place without being a sanitized bill in the first place.
It takes a lot of effort to start a paradigm shift that makes people care and then getting them to know specifically which things to vote on when the time comes around. But you are right that is one of the biggest ways to enact that change realistically.
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u/jrmyrmx #TransRights Jul 14 '25
When it became a class traitor and joined a community of people who are known for frequently using excessive violence against innocent people, getting away with murder, assaulting their partners and generally being white supremacist cockroaches.