AugustJan 31, 2023

American police forces, large and small, have become totally insulated from the slightest hint of civilian control, and it’s fast becoming an even larger danger than the thousand or two they leave dead each year. Whatever one’s political beliefs, this dynamic endangers democracy.

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American policing lies largely outside of any meaningful democratic control. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html

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Opinion | The Police Cannot Be a Law Unto Themselves

Right now, the institution of American policing lies outside any meaningful democratic control.

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Consider former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who used his authority to end collective bargaining for many public sector unions.

Very quickly, the police “unions” made it very clear to him that such treatment for them would end badly for him. And so it didn’t happen.

Jan 31, 2023 at 12:35pmWeb
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Or the 1992 riot Rudy Giuliani accidentally invited that nearly toppled City Hall-with cops out to overthrow the city’s government.

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