Last April, as the administration gleefully decimated the federal government, police officers received a love letter in the form of an executive order promising to “strengthen” and “unleash” police forces on the American public and release them from “legal and political handcuffs”…. Racial profiling has returned in full force with the blessing of the Supreme Court. ICE’s budget has exploded as its agents invade cities, terrorize communities, and throw tens of thousands into gulags without due process. Meanwhile, police continue to kill at record rates. Under this administration, police can break laws and impose racial hierarchies without pretending to care about “community policing” or even the Constitution. Suffice it to say, much about U.S. policing has gotten worse. But whether all this marks a substantive departure from the so-called police reform era is less clear.