> 1. Yes or no, do you support the ability of the police to put people in jail in a way that circumvents the elected district attorney? No. But an injunction d

> 1. Yes or no, do you support the ability of the police to put people in jail in a way that circumvents the elected district attorney? No. But an injunction doesn't put these people into jail. Let me flip it around: do you support restraining orders for abusive spouses if not part of a criminal conviction for abuse? Obviously it poses some dilemmas, but do you oppose the entire notion categorically? > 2. Yes or no, do you view yourself as somebody that could at some point —for any reason whatsoever— piss off a cop? I'm very respectful of cops, partly because I grew up in an environment where cops arrested people around me, including family, and cops were to always be avoided. I learned to 1) fear cops (e.g. avoid unnecessary contact, keep excessively polite when approached, hands at 10-2 if pulled over, etc), but also 2) avoid doing all the shit and anything tangentially related which people around me did to get arrested. On my paternal side most of the men--excepting myself, a cousin, and a nephew--have been to jail, several on convictions (i.e not merely pretrial detainment). Objectively speaking I'm not at all at the same risk as many other populations of men; OTOH, I have far more direct experience with the system than the vast majority of people otherwise in my risk cohort. More importantly, I have far more direct experience living in the types of violent environments which unfortunately necessarily require the intervention of law enforcement (regardless of whether that intervention is too heavy handed or not), and understand that there are unavoidable trade-offs to be made when it comes to maximizing the safety of communities. And the hyperbolic, metaphorically-pearl-clutching attitude regarding liberty issues, expressed at least numerically largely by activists which have no such experience--either with community or police violence--nor face even a substantial risk of that experience is... bothersome. Communities experiencing that violence tend to have more nuanced and complicated opinions, especially when they're facing concrete choices with potentially immediate consequences; when there are no direct consequences to policy choices, people tend to become more extreme and ideological.