Why does this happen when discussion comes up about reigning in the police?

[LiberalArkie]

Chicago suffers deadliest day in 60 years with 18 murders in 24 hours

7 people shot within ten minutes in three separate incidents in Brooklyn

[uponit7771]

1. Some municipalities have ... HORRIBLE ... PD records and a history of cowering to them

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. The right-wing troll army goes into action and looks for inflammatory info....

to counter any progressive measure as soon as it hits the news. They come out of the woodwork from places unknown around the globe.

Happens every time with proposals on immigration, minority rights, healthcare, gun control, etc.

Until the vast billionaire-funded right-wing media machine is dismantled, it's a feature we just deal with...

[totodeinhere]

6. Also funded by the Russians and perhaps the Chinese. n/t

[jayfish]

3. Weird Right?

Where were the cops to stop these crimes?

[2naSalit]

4. Maybe some of them

are the perps.

[Bonx]

5. Criminals are emboldened by the perception of a reduction in commitment to physical authority

[Nevilledog]

7. I think it's likely the opposite.

Police laying back and allowing crimes to happen. What better way to justify their existence. Then they turn it around to support more cops, more lethal power.

[Bonx]

8. How would they lay back and allow crimes to happen? That doesn't even make sense.

[Nevilledog]

9. Sure it does.

Slow response time, lackadaisical investigation. Mischaracterizing arrests or incidents as more serious or violent than they were.

Reinforce the idea that the bad people are out there and the only one who can protect you from them is the police.