Effective police, prison, drug and immigration reform are possible — but not under this administration
Since the inauguration, the Biden-Harris administration has been taking bold measures to fix the interconnected crises that were pushed into a major catastrophe by the Trump cabal. Cabinet members have actual technical qualification and experience to show, strong action to control the pandemic was taken and the US has finally joined everybody else in agreeing that neoliberal economic policies are self-defeating. There is great enthusiasm about these measures and Biden has been celebrated as a true savior, compared to the greatest reformists in history and even praised as a crypto-revolutionary under a moderate disguise.
Of course, that is just silly: the elected ticket won in great part due to the power of their major stakeholders. Those would be the usual suspects in corporate USA: multinational companies, the financial market, the defense industry and some shady and silent interest groups. These interests are the ones that dictate policy.
While the measures were effusively covered by the press, the excuses for not going far enough to accomplish any structural change discreetly leak into published content with not much for the reader to make sense of them.