You start getting special police attention if you try to start a political movement against them. Most people don't have the time and inclination to do so, and

You start getting special police attention if you try to start a political movement against them. Most people don't have the time and inclination to do so, and the ones that do are often incoherent or do things that shoot themselves in the foot, like the people who blocked the SF bay bridge on MLK day.