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Three Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Police Reforms Are Slow-Paced (www.themarshallproject.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems to me the main difficulty here is that the police, as an organization in the United States, has been by and large co-opted by racists and authoritarians.

The mythical cop seen in cop dramas has never existed. Policing in the US literally started as slave patrols, and has always existed to maintain the status quo. https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2021/12/08/the-history-of-policing-in-the-us-and-its-impact-on-americans-today/

It is going to take a lot to deal with the corruption. NYACLU has a good high level overview. https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/what-could-defunding-police-look Personally I want to see a lot more done than even what they outlined, especially ending qualified immunity. The only way to get started is to actually do something instead of the lip service we've seen.