Comment by whats_a_quasar

20 days ago

Fair enough, but it is also valid to be angry at your local law enforcement if they are acting against the community's preferences. Especially when local law enforcement is breaking state law in the process.

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Dilettante_  20 days ago

Maybe true, but at a certain point you're just getting angry at the wind for blowing. The system is a scorpion: It cannot, will not go against its nature.

  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF  20 days ago

    They are a political force, not a force of nature. It is certainly reasonable to get angry at a political force even if their politics are predictable.

  • NoGravitas  19 days ago

    Yes, this is why the slogan was "Abolish the Police". The replacement "Defund the Police" was entirely astroturfed by Democratic politicians who thought it was better optics (it wasn't).

  • fn-mote  20 days ago

    At this point it sounds like you have given up believing in checks and balances in politics.

    ETA: It’s complicated, but having you give up actually weakens the rule of law even more.

  • standardUser  20 days ago

    Politics change, scorpions don't. Throw your hands up in and air and give up if you want, but don't pretend some poor analogy absolves you.

    • const_cast  20 days ago

      I don't think he's throwing his hands up in the air, rather he's implying we need more radical change. If we're going to be waiting around for police to become "good", that's not going to happen. We need to force them to become good.

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xyzzy9563  20 days ago

The greater community, i.e. the United States, may have different preferences than San Francisco.

  • p_j_w  20 days ago

    Local governments are under no obligation to help the federal government enforce federal laws.

mc32  20 days ago

But that would put them between federal law vs state law and federal law supersedes state law and state law supersedes local laws.

  • ceejayoz  20 days ago

    There are plenty of things Federal law can't do under the Tenth Amendment.

    As an example, the Feds can round up marijuana users in California, if they like. They can't require California's law enforcement to help.