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Are there any politicians or political organizations, local or otherwise, advocating for the curtailing of police overreach? Frivolous suits for harassment like

• philosopher1234 4y ago
  defund the police is a movement with that goal, no?
  • Clubber 4y ago
    Yes but I believe they've been captured, at least the political arm of it. You don't hear much of a peep out of them lately and there have been countless shootings and beatings of unarmed and often innocent people.
• Clubber 4y ago
  Yes, but they're like Scientology was in the 90s and 00s; unlimited funds, very strong union and political support and they investigate themselves with cult like omertà. It's gonna take a few decades of relentless scrutiny and political pressure to prosecute them before it gets any better. It seems like an entire generation of police are used to this type of corruption. You can gauge how deep and normalized the corruption is by how blatant some are about it. It's sad, because a lot of people join the police force because they want to do good for the community, and they're colleagues with people like this. The good people end up leaving or getting corrupted. "As one bad apple spoils the others, so you must show no quarter to sin or sinners." We've let this fester for decades. Also, this attitude and blatant disregard for citizens rights is at all levels of policing; local, state and federal. It's a cancer that has riddled the country.
• sc68cal 4y ago
  No. Democrats run away from the accusations of being supporters of "defund the police" by Republicans, by increasing funding for the police. There is no major party in the United States advocating for police reform.