Your right. Here at FreeRepublic, for many years this site was virulently pro Law Enforcement. As you say the first step is to realize that a problem exists. Some of us spent many years swimming up river on this issue. We were asked things like “so what were you in for?”, “when did you get out?”, called mentally ill and compared to Charles Manson and of course accused of being druggies.
So the first task here was to illustrate that a problem existed. We have done that, or more correctly, events and experience has changed many peoples perspectives.
I think it is also true to say that as “our” political points of view have lost national power, and the guns of the Establishment have turned against “us” the realities of Law Enforcement abuse have become only to real. Though it is too bad that it took the conservative viewpoint to fall out of favor for conservatives to see the light.
One of the biggest obstacles to fighting crime in predominantly black neighborhoods is not wanting to cooperate with “the man”. (This also applies to other ways of “acting white” but that’s another discussion).
This is nothing new (think of the mob and rackets trials of the 1930s -60s).
That this mutual antagonism seems to be getting worse is not a good harbinger.