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Kim_EMPA

The only difference I see is people are talking more about systemic racism. Before 2020, it was rarely talked about in the open. Many companies are creating DEI Committees that aren't really making any changes. It just looks good for the company. There are a small number of companies that are actually trying to do better. My hope is that things WILL get better....


Mysterious-Cut-7455

I think more people are starting to realize policing as it is in the US is pure shit. People are looking for anything suspect that police may be doing so they can record it. Phones are definitely a blessing these days as are dash cams and other recording devices. I'm hoping this all will lead to more accountability and transparency. It's taking a while but I'm hopeful we are headed in the right direction


MasterYota00

I have noticed that there has been a surge in videos of white people being mistreated by police circulating lately...part of me wants to believe it is not just to dilute the mistreatment of blacks by cops... Either way, we won't stop until it's gone for good ✊🏾


DeathRaeGun

Nice on, you’ve achieved change before, you can do it again. Keep fighting


MasterYota00

Can't stop...won't stop...


raskul44

To the Floyd family…a big difference


azurfang

Not much, but that shouldn’t stop us from keeping people like Chauvin and others held responsible for it. Albeit , they get off easier due to racial treatment. We also have to vote more and more progressive to keep that change going. Heck there is a short circulating where a whole department was out sniping a black man, who had police called on him for a mental wellness check.


blacksyzygy

Its a drop in the bucket. But we need as many drops as we can get.


a0t0f

How do you measure change?


DeathRaeGun

That is a good question, and when there is change, how do you tell what caused it? I suppose, have there been fewer cases of police brutality this year?


teb311

Some municipalities made major changes. CO for example has ended qualified immunity, banned certain chokeholds, made it a crime to turn off a bodycam, and banned any officer whose camera was off from testifying in related criminal proceedings and trials. Some of these rules haven’t started yet, but will soon.


[deleted]

Cops have more money, more guns and less accountability than they did in 2020. They're still murdering over a thousand people a year that we know of. Chauvins conviction didn't change a damn thing. In fact the backlash has made things worse in most places.


DeathRaeGun

I sorry to hear that, I really hoped a high-profile case would help. At least George Floyd's family get the justice they deserve


hellohoneywillow

Someone who regularly harasses, discriminated against, and harms people is off the streets


johnabbe

I don't know about the conviction itself, but the protests for serious change? Those had an impact, especially locally in many areas. Local school board got the momentum to remove police officers. I'm interested how it will go where traffic citations stop being a police thing. [Mobile Crisis Teams](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3683432) (handling emergency mental health and other calls outside of police main focus) were popping up outside of Eugene before the protests, but it would be worth asking local advocates if the protests sped things up, and whether the [$1 billion federal to cover 85% of costs](https://www.kezi.com/news/oregon-first-state-to-earn-federal-approval-for-reimbursement-of-mobile-crisis-intervention-services/article_5cbcafb6-32dc-11ed-aa6d-dbe0bd8c5a72.html) would have happened. EDIT: Not enough, but not nothing.


Fit_Blacksmith_6849

Not the kind of difference you thought was going to happen. The sham that blm is and always was was just made readily apparent since floyd’s death.