Completely agreed. This case is news precisely because it is so rare for a government agency to be open to change. It takes a very unusual mindset for a police

Completely agreed. This case is news precisely because it is so rare for a government agency to be open to change. It takes a very unusual mindset for a police department to hire an activist rather than sue him, shoot him, arrest him, ignore him, or do any of a thousand other things that the police is known to do to gadflies. Kudos to Seattle PD, and shame to everyone else. Instead of blindly attacking or cooperating with government agencies, activists need to take a twin-track approach. Those who are open to change will get help. Those who aren't will be, uh, "disrupted". Politics loves to devour those who approach it with a naive, one-size-fits-all ideal. As in business, you need to carefully determine which ones you want to cooperate with, which ones to merely tolerate, and which ones to drive out of the market asap.