A few: - Being white - Being middle class or wealthy - Being well-dressed - Not having a disability or mental illness or addiction - Having many peop

A few: - Being white - Being middle class or wealthy - Being well-dressed - Not having a disability or mental illness or addiction - Having many people with cameras trained on you and the police - Having a home Notice that many of those are not things under your direct control. Either you were born lucky enough to live a life mostly free of police violence, or you'll be subject to stop and frisk, regular harassment, probably jail time for minor crimes that wouldn't result in jail time for a wealthy white person, etc. I've occasionally run interference with police at protests and when homeless folks were being harassed by cops because I fit the right stereotypes for not getting the crap beat out of me or getting arrested. I'm simply not the kind of person they harass or arrest, in general. The thought of arresting me or putting me in my place crossed their mind on occasion, I'm sure, but there were usually, maybe always, cameras rolling when these occasions arose. Many people aren't lucky enough to get through police interactions without harm. Cops in the US are simply terrifying, and in many jurisdictions simply out of control. Not all the time, and not with all people (you could live your whole life without ever having a bad incident with a cop if you were born white/wealthy in America, so it's easy to be oblivious to this). I was oblivious for years...I read Reason magazine back then, and so I was aware of the deadly no-knock drug raids. But, the regulatory targeting of minorities to force them out of their homes and neighborhoods so that gentrification can proceed at will, the police targeting of the homeless and the mentally ill to make downtown districts more profitable for their owners, and drug enforcement only on the poorest in our communities, is the dirty little secret of "progressive" city governments. My current home city, Austin, is allegedly quite progressive. And, yet, illegal camping (i.e. sleeping while homeless) can result in a $500 ticket, and APD regularly clears out homeless camps, arresting anyone with drugs.