The only time the people in power even pretend to consider to abolish ICE and lower police budgets were during the riots of 2020

And as long as the violence is only issued by ICE against the population, it won't stop. I may reduce a bit in targets, or expend, according to the ruler, but only to match the ruler's interests.

Of course police remain violent here too, with the wonderful umbrella of "so much less than in the US". Here if the police kills a minor, their is a trial... that always gives police's violence as legit and the death as an accident. At most the policeman killer could get a warning from the hierarchy.

The few remaining of free news and public opinion do all the pressure they can ; a video was released in the press, video made by the police, were officers instruct to shoot aiming the head of pacifist manifestants, and policemen joke trying their best to "kill one". Over an hundred manifestants got serious injuries. Based on laws, that officer and the policemen should be fired, but there has been no output (not even a trial, not even a "sorry").

I would prefer that politics push for justice, for social dialog, for (really) democratic processes of managing problems. And I am really sad to see that none of this works this days.

When the police (or public force) fear for their life, they come to a point they agree to avoid violences. If they renounce to free brutality, the gouvernment is often forced to discuss and to let the people have some power.

Nobody has yet lured any of their command structure into an ambush and stomped a mud hole in their chest. Americans are far too fucking domesticated, which is why step one of starting that revolution from the original comment is spreading class consciousness and making sure everyone understands that there is no possibility of voting away the fascism.

he was the "progressive" that people like piker supported