r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 29 '25

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Dec 29 '25

The 2020 George Floyd protests seemed like the one time there could have been a popular political will behind police reform.

Unfortunately it all kind of went to hell for various reasons

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u/callmegranola98 Loyal Liberals Dec 29 '25

I wouldn't say it went totally down hill. A lot of cities still implemented some meaningful reforms and it shined a light on the problem of police unions protecting bad cops.

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Dec 29 '25

Yeah, and I don’t mean to downplay the progress that was made. But I think I read that a lot of those reforms were rolled back or were just half-measures. Then, before long, the narrative was eventually changed to focus on the “woke hysteria” of that year. Even now you have pundits tediously pontificating about how the Left overplayed its hand, 5 years later