I don't think I ever truly realised how much the US police system attracts a truly special breed of cunt until this week tbh.
Well they're either cunts when they join or they become cunts after years of serving. Some credit where its due, cops see a lot of fucked up things most people never have to see. So most cops that go in with the best intentions, between spending all of their time around shithead cops and seeing heinous shit, its inevitable they become the same way. Its indoctrination. The whole system is sick. When it stopped being about protecting the community and about protecting the interests of specific people at the cost of, I won't even say POC, but the lower class, that's when it took a turn.
If you want change, assign cops to small portions of small communities. So they know everyone's name and everyone know's there's. Make them spend their week or whatever shift sleeping in that community. Be part of it. Partake in it. Protect it.
It'd be a lot harder to strangle George that you helped with his garden two weeks earlier for using a counterfeit bill.
Mind you, he apparently already knew George, so what do I know?
When wasn't police about protecting the upper class from the lower class?
I have no idea what the solution for the US could even be (and maybe this type of violent protest is the only real option at this point), but the problem, when you allow psychopaths to live out their power trips, in a position of authority, and set them off against a group you've more or less officially marked as "expendable", is plain to see.
The rest is done by peer pressure and tribalism, where even cops who might have been somewhat decent, are either pressured or brainwashed into following the pack.
All police forces tend to attract right-wing leaning, almost inherently, but the US is the more extreme and grotesque example of it, as far as developed democracies are concerned, anyway.
I'm skeptical about your idea of reducing back communities to their smaller subsets, when we're living in a world approaching complete disintegration of the job market because of globalized giants like Amazon (i'm not saying they did this, but i'm talking about the global trend).
It just seems antithetical.
Or maybe this is just a modern incarnation of an empire's collapse, after it stretches itself too thin.
