What will happen if the people look at the police like they look at us?
What happens when young black men decide they aren't going to an easy statistic and potential "King Kongs" (yup, saw that right here on DU) to be beaten, thrown, in jail, or gunned down in the fucking street and decide the police are an existential threat?
If you don't want to find out then it is past time to rein in the blue gang, make them accountable to the laws they are trusted to enforce, break down the blue wall, end the failed and stupid drug war that serves as the principal excuse for not only most interactions, the justification of much of the numbers of officers and budgets, but is the rationale for aggression and cause of distrust from the citizen.
We must reduce the role of community police in anti terror efforts as not to replace one excuse for another and really evaluate training, review, and oversight.
It is time to take substantive action or we will be in real war zones before long and then that violence will spread, the suburbs and gated communities will offer little protection, eventually the money and the votes will be followed.
Time for all Americans to stand up to this stuff and put a stop to it before the whole society melts down completely.
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