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tired: “reform the police” wired: “purge the police” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 27, 2021 Hibernated

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yep! “reform not defund” elides the fact that police departments are largely outside of lower-case democratic control, and “reform” rests on a two-way assumption of legitimacy. can’t reform anything that doesn’t view the reformer as legitimate to begin with. — PolitiTweet.org

People promising "reform not defund" are writing checks that police won't let you cash. Yet another example: ppl or… https://t.co/1uMNVxfPao

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@_scott_oneil The problem with the analogy is that the governments of the USA and USSR were both sovereigns, and deep inspections constituted mutual submission. Police departments are not sovereign. They are, in theory, *submissive* to civilian authority, but they refuse to accept that fact. — PolitiTweet.org

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