Radical Reforms: Disbanding Police Forces In The US – OpEd

If you can envisage the commencement of a police force as a band of auxiliaries to keep slaves in check, capture escapees and sow much terror, it becomes that much clearer.  Such men were not stewards to keep the people safe; they were there to protect a propertied status quo at the end of the whip and baton.  In the southern...