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The law is standardized for everyone, its enforcement that is the issue. There are clear differences in enforcement for different races and different wealth levels.

My example occurred many moons ago before pot was decriminalized any where. I am old :)

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Yes agreed, enforcement has to be standardized as well. Justice should be blind, except to the law. The pendulum swinging though has me worried, where dangerous crimes are currently unenforced.

The knee-jerk reaction against policing will cause more harm than good, all in the name of some nebulous "long term" outcome that is borderline undefinable.

Some knee-jerk reactions that we're seeing or considering"

1. Banning facial recognition.

2. Banning predictive policing (this article).

3. Defunding police departments

4. California's ACA5 amendment that seeks to remove anti-discrimination laws, allowing racial and gender discrimination.

Hm, I don't see enacting your first three points as being inherently negative. If it's broken, why not try to fix it?

> The law is standardized for everyone

https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-fed...

As unjust as the results/motivation of this are, the law itself does not vary based on the person committing it.

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