The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' (2020)
Yet another example of how our policing in this country is beyond broken. These cards are disgusting and what they represent is the exact opposite of what police should stand for.<p>I hate our current state of law enforcement (local and federal) that essentially lets &quot;enforcers&quot; pick which laws they enforce and who they enforce them against. The ability for police to utilize &quot;discretion&quot; might sound like a good thing but I think it&#x27;s not. If they enforced the laws equally and universally we would see that some (perhaps many) laws need to be stricken from the books because of how many people are regularly breaking them. Instead the police get to pick so if you piss them off they might write you up for a minor infraction that they ignore 99% of the time. The police should not have this power.<p>Another example of police getting to decide if they want to do their jobs are not is what happened to the CA DA Chesa Boudin. He came in and tried to implement various criminal justice reform policies and the police didn&#x27;t like that so what did they do? They stopped doing their jobs. They let crime rise to the point that civilians, incorrectly, assumed the DA wasn&#x27;t doing his job and they recalled him. Let that sink in, a DA tried to make changes and the police decided to just not do their job in order to make him look bad so they could get him effectively &quot;fired&quot; and they didn&#x27;t have to make any reforms&#x2F;changes. That&#x27;s absolutely disgusting. Just imagine trying to pull a stunt like that were you work and think about how well it would go over. Police are not a protected class, they should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us but instead they are held to almost no standard at all.<p>We need massive police reform in the US and it&#x27;s becoming even more clear that there is little worth &quot;saving&quot; from our current system.