In hundreds of police departments across the country, the percentage of whites on the force is more than 30 percentage points higher than in the communities they serve, according to an analysis of a government survey of police departments.
Analysis finds of the 15 large US cities in which a majority of officers are non-white, only one – Memphis – has a union leader who is black
Let’s put police unions on a raft and set them adrift. They can reapply for solidarity if they stop abusing the rest of us.
Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement’s role in a capitalist-colonialist state.
We don't need any more novels or TV shows about cops who do the wrong thing for the "right" reason. Early crime fiction, to its credit, often viewed law enforcement with skepticism. This started to change in the 1950s.
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With the mass outcry over the cop murders of George Floyd and so many other African Americans, it's worth reprising the review of a key 2017 book that sees even beyond defunding police to challenging the actual role of law enforcement in society.
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“Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”
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