It's Going Down on Nostr: "I think the roots of that shift are in the way that police were run off the streets ...

"I think the roots of that shift are in the way that police were run off the streets in 2020. During the rebellion, cops were on the back foot and started lashing out. We have always seen mass police violence, even with the use of these control tactics, but in 2020 there was a clear shift. The veneer of police “neutrality” fell away, and it became clear to a whole new group of people what side the cops are on. Unlike in the past, where police complicity was implicit, now the police have started taking on an overtly combative tone in their internal discourse. The “thin blue line” mythology has morphed into a political statement, with the cops being there to protect “good Americans” from “the Left.”"

https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-40/