Yup. And likely to continue to get worse. Trump has another few months to ratchet things up, to open up police data bases to private contractors and worse, to continue to give local departments heavy duty military gear, and generally pull the plug on any existing regulations. Some of that will be hard to put back in the can, even if Biden wins. And while Biden is demonstrably better about policing, I’m not sure that people realize that Biden wants larger police budgets. (He has solid policy suggestions but it’s basically, let’t go back to the mid-Obama years, at best.) It’s going to take time to turn things around and, sigh, the conservative courts are going to make it tricky, at best, and the Dems are going to need to win along the lines of 60/40 for the next couple of elections and they are going to to find it in them to do some serious restructuring of the ways in which we practice democracy and the ways we police.
Pretty much everyone can see that having an army raid Jake Paul’s mansion (or really anyone’s mansion, short of Carlos The Jackal) is completely nuts and a clear sign of atrocious governing and policing but . . . turning that sentiment into policy is a long, long road. Arguably, what we are seeing now was set in motion through the right wing projects begun in the 60s.
OTOH, it was Jake Paul, a chaotic attractor of atrocious judgement.
