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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Timothy B. Lee

      1. The alternative to the police is armed vigilantes. We've had that quite a few times in our history. It has not typically worked out well for black Americans in particular.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1269281340656058368 …

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      Timothy B. LeeVerified account @binarybits
      As @mattyglesias wrote last year, there's evidence that having more cops reduces the crime rate. One likely reason for this: each officer has more time to establish positive relationships with people on their beats when they aren't making arrests. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18193661/hire-police-officers-crime-criminal-justice-reform-booker-harris …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      2. San Francisco was taken over by armed vigilantes in 1851 & 1856. In 1856, the forces of law & order turned to a banker & ex-Army officer running the state militia: William Tecumseh Sherman. He proposed an overwhelming show of force to back them down.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      3. The War Department, then run by Jefferson Davis, refused to back Sherman up; they said the Army could only protect federal facilities (not Davis' stance 5 yrs later). Refused support, Sherman resigned in disgust, resolved to have nothing to do with politics again.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      4. Without Sherman's militia, the California Governor ended up sending the state Chief Justice to parley with the vigilantes; he stabbed one of them nearly to death, & they held him hostage for months. Teetered on the bring of hanging him.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      5. California would have been better off following Sherman's advice to let the legitimately constituted authorities maintain a monopoly of force. Vigilante justice cut a wide swath through the Old West, often with terrible consequences.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Jun 2020

      6. The creation of professional big-city police departments, originally a French legacy, was seen as a great progressive step forward when introduced by Robert Peel in London in 1829. We have apparently forgotten what the alternative was.

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        1. Jerry Warner‏ @jwrneriii 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Understand your points, but is it relevant to the situation today, I’m not sure. That being said defunding in isolation without justice reform and a review of incarceration laws probably won’t yield the results people expect.

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        1. Baaah‏ @SheepishNot 6 Jun 2020
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          Think you’re old enough to remember “Serpico”-the history of graft and corruption is mot a pretty one.

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        1. That Dubious Cat™‏ @ThatDubiousCat 6 Jun 2020
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          Seems that we are still only heading toward Tom Wolfe’s Great Re-Learninghttps://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/05/21/the-great-unswaddling-n260166 …

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