@richpuchalsky

I've been thinking about this. Mamdani took power and instantly became a cop lover. The weird ammosexuals took power and instantly stopped hating the idea of federal cops. Progressives are losing power and so are becoming less pro-cop. Communists love cops when they're in charge and hate them otherwise. Poor gay people chant "bottoms, tops, we all hate cops" but rich gay people support them.

I'm beginning to think that one's relationship to the police is not a matter of ideology, but a matter of specifically whether you have power or not. I think anyone who gains power (or who becomes part of the ingroup) is going to be corrupted into a cop-lover.

The implications of this, as an anarchist, are something I've been thinking through.

@passenger @richpuchalsky

Personally, I think politicians like Mamdani, and their families, are explicitly threatened by police when they take office.

Police fraternal orgs are national concerns; they can find and murder anyone without there even being an investigation.

Because otherwise it is *honestly* extremely hard to explain how not one single anti-cop politician has *ever* remained anti-cop after taking office.

The simplest answer is that cops are a national organized crime syndicate

@johnzajac @passenger @richpuchalsky

Cops threatening electeds is business as usual in Los Angeles and has been since forever.

Here's a timeline of LAPD spying since the 1920s, which has always included extortion files on city council members.

https://stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Timeline-of-LAPD-Spying-Surveillance.....pdf

For instance in 1927: "LAPD officers, working in conjunction with mob boss Alfred Marco, pay the sister-in-law of an LAPD detective $2500 to seduce married City Council member Carl Jacobson in an effort to discredit him. Jacobson had been critical of the close connection between LAPD and criminals running gambling rings in the city."

And this has continued unabated although mostly less explicitly down to the present. Not always less explicitly, though. Sometimes even now they'll even publicly menace them, as in e.g. this incident from 2020 when what looks like hundreds of LAPD officers surrounded council member Monica Rodriguez in a parking structure and yelled at her about perceived cuts to their funding:

https://x.com/jasmineviel/status/1268961412241473539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268961412241473539%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fgxebwb%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse

@AdrianRiskin

One of the parts of this that even some leftists don't want to admit to is that cop unions are terrible and have contributed to the public immunity for cops. When hundreds of cops surround a politician and yell at them about funding I'm sure that they or someone will describe that as a union action.

@johnzajac @passenger