John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:08 am

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:54 am BLM changed everything.

Suddenly, the police became ‘the enemy’. It also changed society. Disobedient children who would have otherwise gotten a backhand or paddling on the spot for misbehaving from any nearby parent, now require police intervention.

Because my little child is perfect, how dare anyone think otherwise. Suddenly cops are the first line to maintain order, not the last resort.

What needs to be done can no longer be done.

Even the cops don’t know the politically correct action to typical problems.

All under the constant scrutiny of people who consider them ‘the enemy’.

It didn't change everything, the problems have existed for a long time. Remember LA 92 with Rodney King? The Civil Rights riots in 1964? It's hardly exclusive to the US either, for example there were plenty of anti-police riots in the UK in the early 80s and through to the 2000s, there are similar riots in the Netherlands these days too.
There is an underclass of criminals in many countries who grow up hating the police and are constantly in and out of prison. Some cities have areas which are almost no-go areas for the police. Unless they come in with a huge force they'll get rocks thrown at them by locals and will have to withdraw. Again nothing new.

“I’m here because of Black Lives Matter.”

BLM is on the verge of ending racism while bringing equality to the victims of Capitalism. Slave patrols and Night Watches, which later became modern police departments, were both designed to control the behaviors of minorities.
The use of patrols to capture runaway slaves was one of the precursors of formal police forces, especially in the South. This disastrous legacy persisted as an element of the police role even after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In some cases, police harassment simply meant people of African descent were more likely to be stopped and questioned by the police, while at the other extreme, they have suffered beatings, and even murder, at the hands of White police.

Hence, the slave patrol should be considered a forerunner of modern American law enforcement.

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/br ... n-policing