The United States is a country where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it.

In practice, most laws simply don’t apply to the police.

The ownership class makes this concession to them in exchange for their unwavering fealty in service of the protection of capital’s fixed assets.

The illusion of democratic and legal process governing their behavior paints the whole scheme as legitimate, but there is large scale graft and corruption in the law enforcement apparatus of every major city in the US.

I remember explaining to a visiting Russian friend who had just won a poker tournament in Las Vegas that we couldn’t drive around with his $70k in cash my car because if we get pulled over the cops might steal it. He was astounded that this is how the USA works.