They are serious about this!-----“Abolish the police” Idea Is Inspiring Some Criminal-Justice Activists

“Abolish the police” Idea Is Inspiring Some Criminal-Justice Activists
"The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists: “Abolish the police.”
From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists are building a case not just to reform policing—viewed as an oppressive, violent, and racist institution—but to do away with it altogether. 
When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform.
But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that “abolish the police” is a concrete policy goal. 
The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see “police officers disappearing from the streets.”...
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