How does one abolish the police when neoliberalism has turned us all into petty cops and snitches?
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You have to have Lib Brain to miss this, dude. The cops are a street gang and they follow the same sort of informal public-accountability rules that a gang does. Very different from a spontaneous assemblage of "concerned citizens"
Is what we have the ideal setup? No. But the checks on police power through the courts and the electorate are specifically in place to preserve the legitimacy of their actions *against* accusations of the sort of arbitrary treatment mobs engage in.
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If you believe that I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.
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Might as well just go with "Monopoly on legitimate violence" for an extra dollop of progressive liberalism.
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