There are other considerations as well. No community likes being reformed by others. Nobody likes being told to “be more like us” by others who (maybe) don’t

There are other considerations as well. No community likes being reformed by others. Nobody likes being told to “be more like us” by others who (maybe) don’t understand the issues at hand. For sure, there is entrenched power, but there are other issues like “what am I allowed to do when a suspect high on PCP attacks me? I can no longer use a choke hold, so I guess I have to use my gun. What if it’s crowded?” Here are a few glaring problems that people have admitted need(ed|s) fixing that resist outside dictating: * Removal of Saddam Hussein * Improving inner city schools * Removal of children from a household * Endorcement of civil rights in the south In all cases, there are/were people on the inside who agree the thing must be done, but objected to outsiders doing it because * it made them feel annexed * it made them feel like they would be judged poorly on everything else * they suspected they would be punished forever * they questioned the real motives for the intervention * they didn’t trust the intervention to go all the way. If the greater power left part way through, the local leaders would extract revenge. * ...