All cops serve and protect property and its owners. All police forces are tied together in a Gordian Knot and no elected leader has a blade sharp enough to cut it.
Helpless? Not entirely but change would be much harder than fixing congress. IMO. I have, unfortunately, too much knowledge/experience of/with cops, and the protections for cops is hard coded in the legal and insurance systems. Qualified immunity is not qualified. It’s full. Insurance or cities pay damages.
SCOTUS has issued opinions protecting cops. The 4 th and 5 th are not even lines on paper anymore and there is nothing society can do about it as long as republicans are in power.
So I guess my answer is - no. Voters are not helpless. Vote all republicans out of power.
November 4 th will see an escalation of violence and economic destruction that will be very difficult for society to understand and absorb and at that point there will not be any recourse
All cops serve and protect property and its owners. All police forces are tied together in a Gordian Knot and no elected leader has a blade sharp enough to cut it.
Cops are what they are
Well, yeah. Are we helpless to change that? Have we no responsibility as citizens?
Helpless? Not entirely but change would be much harder than fixing congress. IMO. I have, unfortunately, too much knowledge/experience of/with cops, and the protections for cops is hard coded in the legal and insurance systems. Qualified immunity is not qualified. It’s full. Insurance or cities pay damages.
SCOTUS has issued opinions protecting cops. The 4 th and 5 th are not even lines on paper anymore and there is nothing society can do about it as long as republicans are in power.
So I guess my answer is - no. Voters are not helpless. Vote all republicans out of power.
November 4 th will see an escalation of violence and economic destruction that will be very difficult for society to understand and absorb and at that point there will not be any recourse
Wow, pretty good response, thanks.