Isn&#x27;t that a naive assumption of how things work? Do you really think the President (or Governor of Ohio) are actually involved in the nitty gritty of things?<p>They just make their general discontent known (&quot;oh, those pesky anti-vietnam protesters&quot; etc), allow for the cultivation of an &quot;us and them&quot; dynamic, and then their people ensure that for years the police is not just allowed to do bad things but even encouraged (with protecting policemen that stepped out of line, giving promotions to their leadership if not directly, then after some such scandal gets forgotten, etc).<p>From McCarthy and Hoover, to the treatment of the human rights activists, the 68 democratic convention and onwards to this, the Watergate and more, it&#x27;s not about some &quot;bad apple&quot; or &quot;stressful panicked&quot; actor, but about systematic cultivation of such solutions.