this but worse is what the future looks like if the power of the police is not broken.

it does not matter who you get elected if the cops can hound someone from office for the 'crime' of passing laws that the cops do not like. https://newrepublic.com/article/159142/portsmouth-virginia-police-louise-lucas-lisa-lucas-burke

the cops have established themselves as a power unto themselves, outside of any kind of oversight that the formal democratic process is supposed to provide.

if you want things like rent control and socialized medicine, you will need to break their power to get them.

given the number of cops who commit fraud and inflate their salaries using bogus overtime claims, there's a whole slew of them that end up as landlords or other petty small business tyrants. the cop who murdered george floyd was one, and there's tons more beside.

it's not a coincidence, after all, that most evictions are carried out by some form of law enforcement. the police exist to preserve the existence of private property above anything else.

you can canvass and phonebank all you want, but in the end that's not what is going to break their power.