Friday, September 16, 2022

The police, like politicians, have a constituency.

Experiences within the black community, the homeless, and those who protest a status quo such as the Occupy movement protested demonstrate the police serve the same constituency as far, far too many politicians do, and realizing that would be the first solid grounding of any real and lasting police reform. Does Mayor Frey want police reform? He has his constituency. What is their message to him? Where he, as if a mirror, gives back.