My colleague @germanrlopez wrote about ideas for police reform and I’d like to add to his list here.https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277013/police-reform-policies-systemic-racism-george-floyd …
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We currently have a crisis of simultaneous over-policing and under-policing. I’ve written on this subject before:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/opinion/jaywalking-while-black-jacksonville-florida.html …
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There are a host of laws on the books in cities and localities across the country that are enforced unequally, depending on who is breaking them. And keep in mind that laws should be passed with the understanding that the state can (and may) enforce those laws with violence.
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(This is why the “just don’t break the law” canard is such a canard. Until February of this year, for example, “sex between unmarried people” was technically illegal in the state of Virginia. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-344/ …)
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(We should also end civil asset forfeiture, a thing I still cannot believe is a thing)
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"What is really going on is a selfishness and hypocrisy writ large, resulting in a two-tiered reality — Libertarianism for me but Authoritarianism for thee.”https://americancompass.org/libertarianism-for-me-authoritarianism-for-thee/ …
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Stay tuned for my new hit song: “You Distrust the Wielding of State Power, I Distrust the Wielding of State Power, We Can All Distrust the Wielding of State Power Together!"
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All the way!
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