Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Police Reform Is Possible u0026 Happening In America" video.

  1. So, in another video Jimmy Dore (rightly) condemned Democrats who are falling over themselves to support or bring to power "smiley-faced fascists" like Mike Pence (who's probably never smiled in his life), meaning the authoritarians who will put a respectable image to wage cuts, social program cuts, tax giveaways to the rich, deregulation of environmental protections, increased military spending, etc. But then he supports "community policing." The police are and always have been the enforcers against the workers, the tools of the property owners and the wealthy, the ones who kick the shit out of and murder union activists and protestors. That structural fact shouldn't be forgotten in light of the smiley-faced fascism of community policing. I don't disagree that having law enforcement be more accountable to their communities is a good idea, but when push comes to shove, when people want real social change, the police will be on the side of the masters of mankind against the people. We saw that at DAPL when the governor bused-in cops and troopers and paramilitary to quash dissent. They set their dogs on protestors, blew a girl's arm to shreds, sprayed them in freezing temperatures, maced them, held them at gunpoint, targeted them with snipers, brought along armored vehicles.That was the true face of the police. It's all well and good to push for community policing in the short term, but we should also, I think, not forget about relieving the roots of crime, whether it's poverty, deprivation, a stagnant economy, lack of opportunities, cultural biases, and when you try to address those problems you automatically lock horns with the elites and with those interested in maintaining a capitalist society of inequality. Who actually thinks that if a community decides to have the police go after Wall Street fraudsters, corporate polluters, and corrupt politicians, that the police will comply? Kick their heads in? Of course not: because they don't serve you.
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