Taxpayers will be getting what they deserve. They are supposed to be vigilant for misbehavior on the part of their public servants. If they want their trash picked up and their roads in good repair, they better start doing their civic duties.
“Taxpayers will be getting what they deserve. They are supposed to be vigilant for misbehavior on the part of their public servants.”
Police and brutality go together like bread and butter. It’s just what the police do. The taxpayers are individually and collectively blameless: they didn’t sanction this. The only thing they might be able to effect is the extent to which they fund the police. And that’s really a something of a sophie’s choice for the taxpayers: have a robust police force and deal with the fact that they’re going to beat the snot out of people, or defund the police at the perceived risk of more crime.
I’m of the latter persuasion. I don’t want or need much in the way of police services. And I think that their usefulness in reducing crime is overrated. But I’m not everyone.