Progressive people of all types want America to transform itself, and to become what it was founded to be -- a nation of liberty, freedom, opportunity, fairness, and opportunity for all. While each politician of vision and each generation of hope believes that change will come, such change within America, is at best, one step forward, and then invariably another step backwards or to the side; but hardly it seems, is there comprehensive, lasting, and meaningful change. The main reason why change is so slow in America is that powerful interests do not desire for any change that will threaten that power, and thereby do all in their power to preclude such or to mold such, so that they maintain their status.
The justice and policing arms of the state have always been on the side of those that hold those purse strings, which is indicative as to why the face of the police and the face of justice, is invariably closely connected to those that want to assure that the masses are under their thumb, and thereby not inclined to enacting truly revolutionary actions. This thus means, that the prevailing direction of police actions and justice support those of the status quo, to the dismay of those that simply want justice, equally applied, to be impartially enforced.
Those that truly want progressive change will continue to be thwarted, despite whatever laws are passed, because the problem with America isn't so much that the laws on the books are unfair, but rather that good law, and especially the spirit of good law, is routinely dismissed in American jurisprudence and through its policing policies. So then, the only real alternative that would, in and of itself, fundamentally change America for the better, would be for all police officers, except for those that represent office support staff, and for all District Attorneys, to, in a stroke of a new Affirmative Action, be replaced forthwith, and without exception, with only police officers and District Attorneys of color, and specifically, replaced with all those that are non-white.
If America was to literally change overnight to a country in which the policing arm of the state, as well as the legal charging arm of the state, represented by the District Attorney, were all non-white -- then, without a doubt, the operation of those police officers, the arrests by those police officers, the justice so rendered in courts of law as to crimes prosecuted, diverted, or simply ignored, would change, significantly. In point of fact, police officers, spend an inordinate amount of time arresting good citizens for ticky-tack crimes, of no real substance, such as drug possession, victimless crimes, and low-level offenses of no merit, merely to intimidate, inconvenience, harass, and to bully the people. A police force of all non-white officers, would minimize such, and concentrate instead on real crimes, such as theft, robbery, rape, murder, and so on.
Further to the point, a world in which the police and justice arm of the state was non-white, would mean for all those citizens that were non-white, that there would be a distinct relaxing and a wholesale change in both their outlook and their overall freedom. As for those, that are white, knowing that the police and justice arm, no longer looked the same as them, and did not enforce the laws in a manner that invariably favored them, they then, would begin to look far more frequently over their shoulder, and would, as a matter of course, become much more nervous, and perhaps eventually in attitude and outlook, more progressive in understanding that the world is really not all white, and that would be the change to thereby really believe in.