Yes. The cops. The anger and disappointment the guys expressed in the film felt very timely as well. Perhaps to correct these problems, there needs to be a swell of disappointment and anger that eventually leads to a righting of wrongs ... maybe we're there again. The 60's, the 90's, the 2010's? A thirty-year spread seems to be a winning number. Another thematic element I thought cropped up was the idea of misplaced trust, and how not thinking things through can be disastrous when forming relationships and opinions. The press conference scene brought this to the fore for me. In it, a journalist asks about the guys glorifying violence. Cube responds that they're just telling the stories they see every day. And, more to the point ... that's everyone else does the same thing. Why should they be any different. It made immediate sense to the journalist, and surely to anyone watching the film. But yet, the vast majority of America wasn't hearing this point of the argument. We only heard the glorifying violence angle. And we ran with it. We should have questioned more, because doing so what have shed light on what was the *reason* for this music ... that was the real problem. And, perhaps still is. This theme also played out in E's relationship with Jerry, as E takes Jerry's loyalty as equal to his own, despite the horror of what is really happening behind the scenes. Likewise with Dre and Suge. Dre sees him as an ally at first, despite early signs of questionable behavior. Why? Is it not affecting him yet? Is this a case of Dre tuning out the madness because it's not yet affecting him personally? Is that what everyone outside of Compton did as well?