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    Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

    One thing I keep coming back to when it comes to national discussions of police and policing is the basic question that we appear largely unable to answer: what are police *for*, and who should be policed?

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      2. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        It seems fairly clear to me that many Americans have an understanding of police in which their job is to police *other people*, not them. Other neighborhoods, other Americans, just not them.

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      3. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        There are neighborhoods and communities where crime is *supposed to happen*, and neighborhoods and communities where it isn’t. There are people who are supposed to be overpriced, and there are people who aren’t.

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      4. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        (This gets into a cultural discussion we don’t need to have, but contemplate how many true crime books/stories center on a “nice community” where “these things don’t happen,” despite many crimes happening within personal relationships, not as a result of crazed serial killers.)

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      5. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        If the law is not enforced equally, it’s useless. If some crimes are treated differently depending on who committed them, those laws are essentially useless.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/opinion/jaywalking-while-black-jacksonville-florida.html …

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      6. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        (By the way, you could see this unspoken agreement made, uh, spoken here:)pic.twitter.com/lM4HMYr2dl

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      7. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        Some think that police are the one thing standing between us and the barbarians, other people think of police as the people who couldn’t solve their kid's murder but were more than willing to fine them for a broken tail light. That’s a giant problem.

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      8. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        Some people are exposed to a policing in which quotas for arrests matter most of all, other people exist in a world in which the police only come when specifically called.https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-brooklyn-cop-arrest-summons-quotas-lawsuit-20200617-poyi2e7ubfdthakr7yvclzs6o4-story.html …

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      9. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        There’s a reason why some commentators keep talking about how police are supposed to protect “normal people” from “criminals,” as if both of those groups are immutable and you’d never, say, have a well reputed gymnastics doctor who turned out to have abused hundreds of children.

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      10. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        I do not believe people *are criminals*, I believe that people *commit crimes*, and many of those people seem perfectly nice and normal and their “criminality" is not a physically observable characteristic, contrary to popular belief.

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      11. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        I don’t support police abolition, I support police enforcing the same damn laws in every damn community as if every community is worthwhile and not as if some communities should “expect” crime because they’re “bad neighborhoods.”

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      12. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        I also support a reduction in the number of laws that require enforcement with the implicit promise of state violence, and the police not acting like a protection racket. “Nice neighborhood you’ve got there, would be terrible if we stopped doing stuff.”

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      13. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 18 Jun 2020

        (This is where “unbundling the police” make sense to me: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/unbundle-police/612913/ …)

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