I think there's a disconnect in this thread about how some areas/neighborhoods/parts of a city view LEOs. 9/10 when most of us interact w/ LEOs, it's fairly straight forward - license and registration, you were speeding, rolling stop at an intersection etc. etc. Many of us, if not the vast majority of us have not and have never lived in an area w/ a police presence that is viewed as a double edged sword. It protects and serves but it is also viewed as a bully, as a group of individuals on a power trip that harass and look down on subsets of society b/c "a lot of bad shiz goes down in this area".
This mindset from an LEO puts them on a heighten sense of alertness and even perceived threats could escalate out of control. Just b/c an area is predominantly black and/or Hispanic doesn't mean all black and Hispanics in the area are threats or even could be threats. It's that double edged sword. If LEOs are constantly coming into this area to "get quotas" or easy bust (trust me I know that they do and it's most definitely not all of them, it's most definitely not the majority of them either but it doesn't take many). These types of LEOs even present these easy arrest to rookies as an area where 1. get good experience dealing w/ people 2. get easy arrest 3. no one complains b/c the area has a higher crime rate. But again, that's not 100% of the area, there's still good people that are trying to make a living.
When you grow up in areas like these, cops are not seen as law enforcers, they are seen as another "gang". Literally, getting caught by the police can be a death sentence or figuratively, years in prison.
So, I generally agree w/ the premise "listen and obey the cops and you won't get harassed" but that's not true in all areas (and again, I'm not saying all cops in these areas do this and I'm not saying it's an epidemic). It's a generational distrust where people grow up w/ father's going to prison, brother's going to jail or getting killed, life's altered by either true injustices or perceived injustices.
This is some simple "you do what you're told and everything will be alright" b/c clearly it's not, there should be no outliers when someone, cops and victim's, lives are the chip on the table. There's a systematic distrust in some pockets of America b/w LEOs and minorities that goes back 30 to 40 years (maybe even longer), it's something that can't be fixed w/ a few handshakes and cleaning up the local wreck center. Now that there's social media and 24 hour news cycles that need to be filled and twisted for sensationalism, we're seeing what many people have lived with for a long long time. This isn't new and everyone needs to do better.
