https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
>... There's no concerted effort by police nationwide to spy on black reporters and activists.
Are you serious? There has always been a suspicion of the black community and the people in it from COINTELPRO to the modern day FBI fiction of "Black Identity Extremists"
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/black-identity-extremist...
Your whole post is a hamfisted attempt to discount the interactions between race, policing and power as well as the historical context.